Wychwood Festival 2012

Festival Dates: 08-06-2012 to 10-06-2012

Location: Gloucestershire

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Description

The Wychwood Music Festival quickly gained a national audience and reputation thanks to its eclectic mix of music and creative programming. Time Out described the Festival as ‘an excellent hybrid of the Big Chill, WOMAD and The Cambridge Folk Festival’.

Cost: £7.00 (70 credits)

Status: Open for submissions

Number of acts selected from Get Me On Stage: At least 2

Festival main website: www.wychwoodfestival.com

Wychwood Music Festival will take place at Cheltenham Racecourse in Gloucestershire on the weekend of the 8th – 10th June 2012.

Idyllically set beneath the beautiful Prestbury Hills, the site is divided into the Festival Village; encompassing the Main Stage Arena, The Big Top, Workshop areas, Global Trade Village and Healing Gardens, and the Campsite which is a short distance from the Festival Village on ‘centre course’.

At least two acts from submissions through www.getmeonstage.com will be chosen to play at the 2012 Wychwood Festival. Previous acts to have played at the Festival include The Levellers, Duffy, The Divine Comedy, Super Furry Animals and Seth Lakeman. The chosen acts will all receive passes for the festival. The 2012 festival lineup included, The Charlatans, The Waterboys, Ian Anderson Plays Jethro Tull, Cornershop, The Bluetones, The Christians, Eddi Reader, The Wuzels and loads more including two acts chosen from Get Me On Stage submissions -

Babajack http://www.getmeonstage.com/bandinfo/BabaJack

Will Kevans http://www.getmeonstage.com/bandinfo/Will_Kevans

This is a great high profile festival which gets amazing reviews. Here are a few of them:

‘Wychwood is like a bijou Glastonbury, the perfect way to ease into the festival season’, The Independent.

‘Clearly it’s not just an art to put on a festival this good, it’s pure Wych-craft!’, eFestivals.co.uk.

‘The bigger, mainstream indie-rock festivals looking decidedly pale and insular’, Virtualfestivals.com.

So what are you waiting for? Apply for this one here!