Nibley Music Festival

Nibley Music Festival is an annual one day music festival that takes place in July in the village of North Nibley, Gloucester, UK.[1] The Festival is held on the village cricket ground in the hills above the Severn Estuary, commanding views of up to 60 miles.[2] The Festival, formerly called North Nibley Music Festival, was first held in 2007[3] as a way of fundraising for local good causes and charities. The management and organisation of the festival is carried out by small team of volunteers working throughout the year, and about 150 extra volunteers around festival time.[4] Since 2007 it has grown in size to a capacity of c. 4,500 people and now raises about £30-40k each year through a combination of ticket sales, sponsorship and encouraging local charitable groups to set up stalls on the festival site. It showcases popular music across a wide variety of genres[1] and the festival is aimed primarily at a family audience.[5] In 2013 the festival sold all of its tickets in less than an hour.[6] This led to demands for the festival to grow in size, but as of 2014 this hasn't happened.[7] Bands that have played at Nibley in the past include The Wonderstuff, King Charles, Jesus Jones,[8] The Beat, Dodgy,[3] The Christians and The Selecter.

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References

  1. 1 2 Nibley Festival is a scorcher with Wonder Stuff, Jesus Jones, King Charles | Stroud Life
  2. ↑ The Telegraph, "Willow Walks:Britain's best village cricket grounds"Sep 13th 2008.
  3. 1 2 Nibley Music Festival tickets sell out in less than 36 hours (From Gazette Series)
  4. ↑ Marshall, Claire. "Volunteers needed for North Nibley Music Festival". Gazette, 31 March 2010
  5. ↑ Music, crafts, circuses and food at ‘awesome’ Nibley festival | Gloucester Citizen
  6. ↑ REVIEW: Nibley Music Festival Nibley 9/10 | Bristol Post
  7. ↑ "The Heavy and Turin Brakes announced as Nibley Festival headliners". Gazette, 10 March 2014.
  8. ↑ Pack up the tent, Nibley Music Festival is here with live music from The Wonder Stuff, Jesus Jones and King Charles | Gloucestershire Echo
  9. ↑ "Cotswold Music Festivals" Cotswold Life, June 22nd 2010.

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