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Cambridge Folk Festival Bans Single-Use Plastic

Posted on by Dana Miller
Cambridge Folk Festival Bans Single-Use Plastic

There’s only one month to go before the gates to Cherry Hinton Hall open to fans for Cambridge Folk Festival 2019.   Organisers have now announced sustainability plans and on site activities. Returning this year with an ‘Outstanding’, A Greener Festival Award, Cambridge Folk Festival now furthers its sustainability commitment and announces the ban on single use plastics. Rebecca Stewart, Operations Manager said: “We have always tried to stay ahead of the game when it comes…

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Glastonbury 2019 News and rumours for the legendary festival

Posted on by George Millington
Glastonbury 2019 News and rumours for the legendary festival

The legendary Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis has hinted that this next year’s headliners will be “two or three that have never played”. Returning after a barren year, all of the festival-goers and the rumour mill have gone into overdrive as to who the headliners could be, with Emily Eavis adding that one of the headliners is a non-British act. So, let’s take a look at some of the favourites to head up the bill……

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Charities warn festival goers against leaving tents behind as donations

Posted on by Raza Khan
Charities warn festival goers against leaving tents behind as donations

Thousands upon thousands of tents are abandoned at festivals each year, but it’s not just post-festival lethargy – or poor weather – that is to blame. According to experts, many festival goers leave their tents behind because they think they will be donated to charities. Despite some festivals advertising that leftover tents will go to philanthropic use, up to 90 per cent of tents that get left end up in landfill or the incinerator, explains…

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Sunfall Festival: Our Top Picks

Posted on by George Millington
Sunfall Festival: Our Top Picks

With Festival Season in full swing. So we look ahead to Sunfall 2017 which takes place on August 12th in Brockwell Park. The “new festival for London” and brings a packed one-day lineup. As well as many of the featured artists appearing again at various after party spots around the capital. Set clashes are the bane of every festival-goer’s life. And those decisions are often agonizing. Such as, here is our suggested (certainly not definitive) Sunfall…

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