KITE is a new festival of music and ideas taking place at Kirtlington Park in Kidlington, just north of Oxford city. Think era-defining icons, contemporary stars and emerging talent driving the music scene forward. Think concepts big and small and the spaces to explore them. Follow your nose and treat yourself to some delicious street food. Kirtlington Park is KITE’s home, and it’ll become yours too for the weekend.
Festival lineup includes: Hot Chip / Suede / Candi Staton / Baxter Dury / Sofia Kourtesis / Sarathy Korwar / Mauskovic Dance Band / Decius / Lynks / Raw Silk / David Holmes / Dylan Jones / Max Porter / Miki Berenyi / Alistair Green / Toussaint Douglass / Josh Berry / Shazia Mirza/ Kiri Pritchard McLean
Witney Music Festival 2023 is a fantastic two-day open-air music festival for all the family in Witney, Oxfordshire. The 2022 festival took place at The Leys with The Inflatables Tom Hingley & the Kar-Pets headling on 10 June and EMF headlining the main event on 11 June. Witney Music Festival is the biggest music event in the Witney calendar, drawing in a record-breaking crowd of more than 15,000 in 2019. It was cancelled during the COVID-19 lockdown.
Festival lineup includes: TBC
Henley Festival is an exclusive boutique black-tie festival that takes place over five days, celebrating the best of the UK and International music and arts. The festival is a truly unique event. It embraces a vibrant programme from pop to world music, classical to jazz where art and gastronomy share equal billing with music.
Festival lineup includes: TBC
Truck Festival 2023 will take place from 21 to 23 July 2023 in the idyllic Oxfordshire countryside. Often described as the Godfather of the small music festivals, the Truck Festival has been featuring some of the biggest and best emerging artists since 1998. The festival takes place at Hill Farm in Steventon, and it is widely regarded as one of the unmissable music festivals in Oxfordshire.
Festival lineup: TBC
The UK’s friendliest little festival again offers you the very best in world music, workshops, food and drink, sound journeys, yoga, and dance. Immerse yourself in Elementary… a world of sound!, in the wide-open fields of Braziers Park in the heart of England once again this year.
Wilderness festival is the multi-award winning 4-day festival combining live music, contemporary arts and an array of theatre, artisanship, late-night parties, outdoor pursuits and culinary experiences. It’s one festival where genres are redefined, identity is turned on its head, and arts from across the spectrum sit side by side.
Festival lineup includes: TBC
The Fairport Cropredy Convention 2023 will be staged over the weekend of 10 to 12 August 2023. The annual festival of folk and rock music, headed by British folk-rock band Fairport Convention is held on the edge of the village of Cropredy near Babnury in Oxfordshire.
Festival lineup includes: TBC
Rewind Festival South is probably the biggest 80’s music festival in the world. It is a spectacular event, packed full of fun, laughter, great (and terrible!) costumes and friends. Celebrate the best decade around with all your favourite 80s icons. Get your tickets and join the biggest party of the summer. This really is going to be one of the 2023 festivals in Oxfordshire you can’t afford to miss.
Festival lineup includes: TBC
This mouth-watering summer festival returns to Oxford’s South Park with live music from chart-topping headliners, workshops and masterclasses featuring MasterChef Champions, Michelin star and top local chefs cooking their signature summer recipes, Bake Off winners and top bakers in The Cake & Desserts Theatre, new wines, champagnes and cocktails to sample in The Drinks Theatre, and Kids Zone with Kids Cookery Theatre.
Festival lineup includes: Scouting For Girls / Sophie Ellis-Bextor.
A highlight of the summer social calendar at Blenheim Palace, The Battle Proms is the perfect opportunity to gather friends and family for a spectacular and memorable night out in a stunning setting at the world heritage site. Expect an afternoon of breath-taking displays from the riders of the Battle Proms Napoleonic cavalry and The Red Devils – the British Army and Parachute Regiments official display team.
Treehouse Festival of Music and Arts – a boutique music and art festival – is returning to Oxfordshire for the sixth year in July in the beautiful Oxfordshire countryside in Uffington. The festival aims to build community and connection and is one of the UK’s most sustainable festivals. Lose yourself amongst the trees and forget about the chaos for a magical weekend of revelry.
Festival lineup includes: TBC.
Back by popular demand, the iconic house music brand Café Mambo Ibiza will make a welcome return to Stonor Park & Gardens, Henley On Thames, on Friday 12 August 2022. Thousands of party people will come together for an unforgettable, festival-like experience under the stars as they dance to the cutting-edge tunes dropped from a massive line up of DJ talent.
Festival lineup includes: Danny Howard / Disciples / Riton / Coco Cole / Erik Hagleton
2022 is an exciting year for Waterperry Opera Festival as they celebrate their 5th anniversary with a lively, heartfelt, and visionary eight-day open-air festival, with refreshing new projects and familiar much-loved productions performed across the Waterperry Estate.
Festival lineup includes: Mansfield Park (Dove) and Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev). Headlining the festival are new productions of The Marriage of Figaro (Mozart) and Svadba ‘A Wedding’ (Ana Sokolović).
Set in the magnificent gardens of Stonor Park, ‘Stonor Park Proms’ is a spectacular classical concert that will be a night to remember for the whole family. Guest soloists will be joined on stage by the London Gala Orchestra conducted by Stephen Bell.
Festival lineup includes: Wynne Evans / Marisha Wallace / London Gala Orchestra / Jack Lukeman
Over two weeks in October, Oxford Lieder welcomes many of the world’s great singers and pianists to Oxford, and this “extravaganza of song” is now well established as one of the leading festivals of its kind in the world. The festival features around 50 concerts and dozens of other events that allow people to learn and participate.
Festival lineup includes: Kate Royal / Christine Rice / Benjamin Appl / Thomas Oliemans / Patricia Petibon / Christopher Purves / James Gilchrist / Marie-Laure Garnier / Iestyn Davies / Mark Parmore / Werner GuraBirgid Steinberger / Roderick Williams / Camilla Tilling / C & J Pregardien / Dorothe A Roschmann / Carolyn Sampson / Dame Sarah Connolly.
After nearly 20 years, the curtain has come down on the Cornbury Music Festival – an unmissable music festival in the Oxfordshire countryside. The festival, which began life in 2004, was described by the organisers as a one-of-a-kind, lovingly crafted, top-notch, open-air party tailor-made for the whole family, the festival attracted.
