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Organisers say Cornbury Festival 2022 will be the last hurrah

The team behind one of the Cotswolds’ longest running festivals has announced that this year’s festival will definitely be the last.

Cornbury will be staged one more time at Great Tew Park over the weekend of 8 – 10 July. 

The Last Hurrah will feature previously announced James Blunt, The Darkness, Bryan Adams, The Waterboys, Ronan Keating, and Jools Holland with His Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, and they will be joined by Mica Paris, The Magic Numbers, Altered Images, The Christians, and many others; along with Cornbury perennials STAKS band and their special guest.

Promoter Hugh Phillimore said: “We tried to stop back in 2017 with The Fabulous Finale’ says promoter Hugh Phillimore ‘but our vanity got the better of us when our supporters badgered us to continue. This time it really is the end. Having had to postpone the festival in 2020 and again in 2021, we of course wanted to keep our promise and deliver one last Cornbury this year for our loyal supporters. But after two years of Covid struggles, we feel it’s time to move on.”

Hugh added: “Yes there will be fireworks, yes there will be feasts, and yes there will be tears before bedtime but there will also be one hell of a party as we go out with a bang!”

Starting in 2004 at Cornbury Park and moving to Great Tew in 2011, Cornbury has produced a host of big headliners including Amy Winehouse, Joe Cocker, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant, Paul Simon, The Faces, Ray Davies and more.

Cornbury is regarded as one of the safest festivals in the UK and was originally modelled on a traditional age-inclusive Cotswolds party named ‘The Eight To Eighty’ which Hugh first attended in 1968.

More information about the festival and tickets can be found at www.cornburyfestival.com

Day Tickets range from £90, Weekend Tickets from £190 and Weekend with Camping Tickets from £225. Senior, Teen & Child Concessions are also available with under 3s going free.

  • Organisers say Cornbury Festival 2022 will be the last hurrah