LYDNEY FESTIVAL
Enjoy music, dance and humorous street theatre.
Experience fire and light shows, spectacle and magic.
Join in the Midsummer Procession
27th June – 11am to 5pm
Lydney Festival offer a brilliant FREE programme of folk music and dance, craft stalls and local foods. At midday high tide the flotilla of boats arrives at Lydney Docks, welcomed by the Commodore and guest celebrities.
Desperate Men will be animating the festival with their street theatre performance of ‘Severn Mud Larks’, a unique outdoor show for families. Meet surreal and comic characters face to face, the Lock Keeper, Captain Webb, Emma Darwin and the infamous ‘Severn Bores’!
Enjoy River Songs performed in the Docks by community choirs, and ‘Tide Land’ dances performed at the Standing Stones with views of the river, choreographed by Marie-Louise Flexen to music composed by Steve Skinley and Rick Morton.
Join in with Desperate Men’s fantastical walking tours, accompanied by Mudlarks Band - followed by a firey finale created by Pa-Boom!
For full programme see: www.lydney.org.uk
WHAT TO BRING – if you are attending the Lydney Festival – consider bringing warm clothes and something to sit on.
TRAVEL & PARKING –Please consider travelling by local train and bus services. Lydney Festival provides FREE mini bus service from the Bus Station to the Docks.
CYCLISTS can view national cycle routes at: www.sustrans.org.uk – routes 41,42 and 45 offer links between Bristol, Gloucester, Tewkesbury, Cinderford, Lydney and Chepstow.
