{"id":5668,"date":"2025-05-15T13:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-15T13:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boagreenmanfest.org\/welcome\/?page_id=5668"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:34:42","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:34:42","slug":"2025-a-two-day-success","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/boagreenmanfest.org\/welcome\/2025-a-two-day-success\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 – A Two Day Success"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Another fabulous sunny day for our eight annual event and, once again, it was our biggest yet and very popular. We had close on 1,000 performers and nearly 60 traders covering 33 venues. To cope with demand we became a two day event for the first time and it seemed to work with some very entertaining dancing on Sunday at the Tithe Barn. A selection of comments are at the foot of this page.<\/p>\n\n\n

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We expanded the space for town centre venues by about 30% by closing Church Street giving us an almost vehicle free and much safer site, and a broadly circular set of 33 venues that eased pedestrian flows over the Town Bridge. At the Tithe Barn we spread into the Countryside Park and Workshops with a full programme of activities from 12pm to 6pm and a bar \/ stage that stayed open until 8.30pm. We had all our standard attractions and lots of new activities this year, a full on food court, Stanzas @ The Stumble Stage, Casa Bella Stage and a second big artisan market. We had a much bigger Children’s Fun Zone and funfair with lots of activities they could try and special performances for them to watch and join in. As always our giant Jack in the Green and his wonderful partner Jill in the Green were a huge draw as they wandered the festival sites bringing fun and weirdness with them.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The town’s shop windows were beautifully dressed in green. The best small window was The Dog House, runner up Alfred’s. The best big window was Mercy in Action, runner up Roundabout The House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our launch party concert in the Music Centre by the John Martyn Project was judged “The best concert I’ve ever<\/span> seen”<\/em> by one member of the audience. The mass dances on Saturday afternoon were spectacular. The closing parade was through packed crowds and Stripping Jack was as wildly popular as ever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crowds at our normal venues were slightly less packed in than normal so spreading into new venues worked but all our new spaces were also crowded so, based on previous years, we must have had over 10K visitors this year. Jack and Jill have returned to their slumbers in the Tithe Barn, Jack’s frame is now supporting runner beans in a local garden and the organisers, Jan and Alfie Windsor, plan to sleep for a month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Please email<\/a> us<\/a> you photos and videos.<\/p>\n\n\n

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