It's that time of year when your social feeds get filled up with ads featuring beautiful people in glitter, at festivals, in slow-motion, telling you to buy Early Bird Tickets Before They Run Out.
Well in an effort to ease that anxiety, and to help you plan where and when you're going to allocate your Festival budget for 2019, we knocked up a few colourful graphics for you.
Here are the major festivals happening in and around Herefordshire this summer.
Note:
No, this is not a complete list. Since someone worked out that if you put a tent in a pub garden you could call it a festival - sometime around 2014 - there have been around 73,000 festivals happening each summer in Herefordshire. Loads of them are great. Some of them are charming. A few are just rubbish. But your village fete probably isn't on here.
This is a collection of mainly multi-day festivals with a national profile either in Herefordshire or right on the edge (Hay Festival made it, Green Man didn't). Anyway enjoy.
May 1- 5: Hellens Music - high end classical music in a manor house (and other venues).
May 24 - 27: How the Light Gets In - Anna Calvi with a side of philosophy.
June 7 - 9: Big Love Festival - free love and throwback, ravey vibes in a stately home and its surroundings.
July 5 - 7: El Dorado - glitter and disco, with a floating stage.
July 18 21: Upton Blues Festival - free blues music on the river and across the border.
July 18 - 21: Nozstock - the OG, this year with Rudimental
Aug 8 - 11: Lakefest - Happy Mondays, Kaiser Chief Fridays.
Aug 17: Into the Woods - an al fresco house party ten minutes from Hereford.
Sep 5 - 8: Bromyard Folk Festival - some folking beautiful singer-songwriters.
Apr 4 - 11: Ferrous: ironwork and ironplay from across the world.
May 23 - June 2: Hay Festival: Writers, readers, politicians in casual wear - it's a world-renowned Birkenstock catwalk.
May 24 - 27: How the Light Gets In - Anna Calvi with a side of philosophy.
Jul 5 - 14: Ledbury Poetry Festival - the UKs biggest no-prose party.
Sep 7 - 15: h.Art - a countywide pop-up gallery.
May 3 - 4: Eastnor Chilli Festival - all hail the jalapeno.
July 5 - 7: Beer-on-the-Wye - real ales, real hangovers.
August 11 - Magnalonga - an Italian-style pub crawl, but with food not beer. (*and beer).
August 24 - 26 - Hereford Indie Food - cool, carpark-based food and music from top chefs.
September 21 -22: Abergavenny Food Festival - food porn that's a 25-minute train away.
May 4 - Hereford River Carnival: Wye-adjacent shenanigans.
May 4 - 6 - Marches Makers: A crafty Kington town takeover by 400 artists and makers.
Jun - Creative/Fuel: a new conference for young people (16-30) on the creative industries. (more info on this coming soon)
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