2025 will be our eight annual festival and dancing is at the very heart of it. We normally attract about 45 dance groups including every shade of Morris dancer. For 2025 we are aiming for 50. We also want international dance styles so if your group performs Bollywood, Bulgarian, Czech, Estonian, French, Greek, Hip Hop, Irish, Moravian, Polish, Samba, Scottish, Slovak, Turkish, Welsh, Zulu dances, or any other style, we’d love you to join us.
Read what dancers said about previous festivals here and here.
You can get a flavour of our beautiful Cotswold town is this video.
We’ll have at least eight beautiful riverside and historic dance venues around the town, all with covered alternatives if it rains. There will be a wooden dance floor for Appalachian, clog, step , rapper etc., dancers. In 2024 we had about 8,000 visitors so there were good audiences everywhere. You can expect four or five 45 minute dance periods during the day, each at a different place and each shared with two different partner groups. Our giant Jack in the Green and his partner Jill in the Green will tour the dance venues so you should get a chance to dance with one or both of them.
There’s a changing room in St Margaret’s Hall in the centre of town for those that need one, and a performers’ chill out room / bag drop / cloak room in the Library for all the stuff you don’t want to carry round all day.
Stay for the weekend! 2025’s pop-up camp site couldn’t be more central; next door to the Tithe Barn, a very short walk to the town centre and a few steps from our Saturday night party venue. Click here for more information and a camp site booking form. Click the green box for alternative options.
Join our Friday evening Launch Party featuring The John Martyn Project at the Wiltshire music Centre see here.