Acoustic Festival of Britain

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Location: Uttoxeter Racecourse, Wood Lane, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, ST14 8BD

Size: 5000

Website: www.acousticfestival.co.uk

What are the highlights for kids and families:

A laid-back family friendly festival, with activities such as Craft Stalls & Displays, Juggling Schools, Drumming, Didgeridoo making and playing, Ukulele & Guitar Workshops, Healing & Yoga Classes, Pixies, Dragons, Story Telling, Comedy, Tribal Dancing, Belly Dancing, Morris Dancing, Face Painting, and Stilt Walkers together with a huge real ale tent, containing a stage powered by bicycles, so if you want a bit of exercise at the festival, hop on board and help power the stage. Read more…

John Parr: Origins of Rock

John Parr talks to Festival Kidz about music through his life…

You might be forgiven for thinking that John Parr was a one-hit wonder, famous only for the huge 80’s chart-topping hit ‘St Elmo’s Fire’.

Granted that song did have most young girls of my generation singing away into their hairbrushes dreaming of kissing Rob Lowe in the mirror… but there is certainly a lot more to John Parr than that! Read more…