Festival Packing List
British summer nights turn cold and fields turn wet, so the right kit, carried in one trip, makes or breaks a festival weekend.
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Festival Guide
Packing lists, camping with children, volunteering and avoiding ticket scams: practical help for festival-goers. Every guide lists the sources it was checked against; the festival archive keeps the pages first published on this domain.
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Avoiding Festival Ticket Scams
Official sellers, protected payments and a quick call to the bank are the fan's best defence against fake tickets for sold-out festivals.
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From the festival archive
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Where Festival-Goers Stayed
The festival campsite in Danby Dale, a camping barn at Botton Village and nearby farm cottages.
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May Folk Weekend 2013
The four-day May bank holiday weekend of 2013 at Botton Village in Danby Dale: the guests, the venues and the village.
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Special Events and the Yorkshire Wassail
Monthly acoustic afternoons in Saltburn and the Christmas ‘Yorkshire Wassail’ shows of carols, songs and stories.
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