Which event takes place nearly every year at Worthy Farm, Pilton in Somerset?
"for students from the college. It opened on 5 October 1963 with a performance by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. There are two theatres in Frome: The ""Memorial Theatre"" was built in 1924 in memory of the fallen of the First World War, whilst the 240-seat ""Merlin Theatre"" is part of the Community College campus. The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts takes place most years in Pilton, near Shepton Mallet, attracting over 170,000 music and culture lovers and entertainers from around the world. The Big Green Gathering was held in Somerset on five occasions between 2002 and 2007. The annual"
"it is named for Glastonbury, it is held at Worthy Farm between the small villages of Pilton and Pylle, east of the town of Glastonbury. The festival is best known for its contemporary music, but also features dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and many other arts. For 2005, the enclosed area of the festival was over , had over 385 live performances and was attended by around 150,000 people. In 2007, over 700 acts played on over 80 stages and the capacity expanded by 20,000 to 177,000. The festival has spawned a range of other work including the 1972 film"
"Mid-Somerset Show The Mid-Somerset Show, also known as Shepton Show, is a one-day agricultural show held annually in August on a site at Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. Founded over 150 years ago, the show displays and celebrates agriculture and livestock rearing, crafts and hobbies, local heritage and farming history. Competitions are held for animals, produce and handicrafts in a wide range of classes. Other attractions include trade stands, craft demonstrations and amusements. The show began life as a ploughing match between local farmers organised by the Evercreech Farmers Club but by the 1870s this had metamorphosed into a cattle show,"
"team members, near Pilton, Somerset, with 400 attending. During the event, a local farmer (who was attending the event, serving his own organic food), offered the use of his own land. The original 2006 site posed many difficulties for organisers and visitors alike with its extremely rural location and its lack of suitable access. The event has been held at Gilcombe Farm each year since. The festival does not favour one specific genre of music and tends to promote all types of signed as well as unsigned bands and artists including DJ's. Several acts that have appeared at the festival"
"Farmfestival Farmfestival is an annual two-day music festival held near Bruton, Somerset, England. The festival has no corporate sponsorship and was started by a group of friends. It has increased in popularity since its inaugural event in 2006. It was included in ""The Sunday Times"" ""Top 100 Music Festivals"" in 2009. The festival organisers have made donations to various charities since its establishment, notably Practical Action and African Development charity Send A Cow, along with local causes each year from the event's proceeds. Farmfestival (Farmfest) began in 2006. The first Farmfestival was held on the land of one of the"
"by Pilton farmer Michael Eavis and his daughter Emily Eavis. Being the village at which the festival is held, all villagers get a free ticket. Pilton, Somerset Pilton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the A361 road in the Mendip district, 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Shepton Mallet and 6 miles (10 km) east of Glastonbury. The village has a population of 998. The parish includes the hamlets of West Compton, East Compton, Westholme, Beardly Batch and Cannards Grave. Pilton is now almost from the sea but sits on the edge of the Somerset"
"as the Bath and West show held only away. It seems more popular than previously in the local community. Since 2002 there has been no admission fee to the show although charges are made for competition entries. The 153rd show in August 2005 attracted a record (estimated) 15,000 people. Competition classes were held in Mid-Somerset Show The Mid-Somerset Show, also known as Shepton Show, is a one-day agricultural show held annually in August on a site at Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. Founded over 150 years ago, the show displays and celebrates agriculture and livestock rearing, crafts and hobbies, local heritage"
"North Somerset Show The North Somerset Show is an agricultural show held annually in May at Wraxall, North Somerset, England. It is organised by the North Somerset Agricultural Society. The society was formed out of the North Somerset Ploughing Society in 1840 by a group of farmers. The sole purpose was to promote and showcase agricultural development to both those involved in farming and agriculture as well as to promote an agricultural awareness to the general public. The event used to be held at Ashton Court in Bristol until the society purchased its current 130-acre site, which was previously part"
"the various events which culminate in the inter-county Middleton Cup that takes place on the final day each year. Various other representative and international bowls fixtures take place at Beach House Park from time to time including the British Isles Championships and Junior Internationals. A range of motorsports, including stock car racing, banger racing and go kart racing take place at the Oval Raceway in the outlying village of Angmering. Founded in 2001, Worthing is home to a self-funded wrestling organisation called the Just Wrestling Foundation (JWF), which is currently based at St Richard's Church Hall in Durrington. Worthing has"
"town now form a major regional festival. Some carts cost in excess of £20,000 to build and are the result of thousands of man hours work throughout the year. The event's purpose, as it has always been from the start, is to raise thousands of pounds for local charities from money collection carts in the two-hour procession. In several villages Punkie Night is celebrated each October. Many villages had Friendly Societies or Clubs between the late 18th and early 20th centuries. The use of Friendly Society Brasses as emblems was particularly prevalent in Somerset and the surrounding counties. The Weston-super-Mare"
"July 2016. Overton has a group of Mummers, who perform frequently over the Yuletide period outside some of the public houses in the village. Overton is the location of the Children in Need fundraising event Carfest South which is hosted at Southley Farm during August Bank Holiday. In Richard Adams' ""Watership Down"", the rival rabbit warren of Efrafa was located just north of the railway above Northington Farm in Overton. Two peacocks, nicknamed ‘Pierre’ and ‘Percy’, live in the Dellands area at the top of the village. Thought to have come from a lavender farm in nearby Whitchurch and accused"
"of the Tyntesfield Estate, in 2002. Many other events are also held at this site throughout the year. Many of the basic traditions can still be found in today's show with the emphasis still being very much on agriculture. The showing of livestock, horses and demonstrations of local and rural skills and crafts still play an important part of the show. The 2018 event was the 159th show. North Somerset Show The North Somerset Show is an agricultural show held annually in May at Wraxall, North Somerset, England. It is organised by the North Somerset Agricultural Society. The society was"
"east, but there continues to be interaction between the people espousing alternative lifestyles living in Glastonbury and the festival. The farm is situated between the A361 and A37 roads. Worthy Farm is situated at in a valley at the head of the Whitelake River, between two low limestone ridges, part of the southern edge of the Mendip Hills. On the site is a confluence of the two small streams that make the Whitelake River. In the past the site has experienced problems with flooding, though after the floods that occurred during the 1997 and 1998 festival, drainage was improved. This"
"hats. During the weekend, there is organic food (including vegetarian and vegan) from Gilcombe Farm on sale as well as local cider. ""The Sunday Times"" referred to Farmfestival as ""The Bargain of the Festival Season"", referring to the low ticket and refreshment prices. ""The Daily Mirror"" named Farmfestival as one of the ""5 Best Budget Music Festivals for 2015"" The festival has a capacity of 5,000. Farmfestival Farmfestival is an annual two-day music festival held near Bruton, Somerset, England. The festival has no corporate sponsorship and was started by a group of friends. It has increased in popularity since its"
"Festival of Blues and Progressive Music at the nearby Bath and West Showground in 1970. The festival retains vestiges of this tradition such as the Green Fields area, encompassing the Green Futures and Healing Field. The first festival at Worthy Farm was the ""Pilton Pop, Blues & Folk Festival"", mounted by Michael Eavis on Saturday 19 September 1970, and attended by 1,500 people. The original headline acts were The Kinks and Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders but these acts were replaced at short notice by Tyrannosaurus Rex, later known as T. Rex. Tickets were £1. Other billed acts of note"
"families running traditional bakers, butchers, grocers, and dressmakers shops, as well as a tea room, as they would have been during the Victorian and Edwardian eras, during World War II, and in the 1960s and 1970s. A town fete called Collett Day is held in June in the town's Collett Park. A free one-day agricultural show, the Mid-Somerset Show, is held on fields on Shepton Mallet's southern edge in August. The Glastonbury Festival, the largest music festival in Europe, is held slightly west of the village of Pilton, approximately south-west of Shepton. The Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music"
"starts and finishes at the Norwich Union building on the outskirts of Worthing before taking in the ancient hill forts of Cissbury Ring, Devil's Dyke and Chanctonbury Ring over the rough and steep terrain of the South Downs. The Worthing Festival is held in the last two weeks each July with open-air concerts in the town centre and a fairground along the town's promenade. Since 2008, Worthing has been the home to the International Birdman competition; the 2013 event at Worthing Pier on the 10–11 August. In the early 19th century, Worthing was served by newspapers with a wider geographical"
"brevicornis"" were recorded at Folly Farm in 1999. The site was purchased from the Strachey family who were lords of the manor of the nearby Sutton Court in 1987. Avon Wildlife Trust opened Folly Farm Centre as an education venue in May 2008. The insulation in the centre's roofs is provided by sheep's wool. It also has a solar panel, a biomass boiler fired by wood pellets and a willow sewage treatment area. Folly Farm, Somerset Folly Farm is a traditionally managed working farm and nature reserve run by the Avon Wildlife Trust. It is located between Stowey and Clutton,"
"Glastonbury Festival Glastonbury Festival is a five-day festival of contemporary performing arts that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England. In addition to contemporary music, the festival hosts dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret, and other arts. Leading pop and rock artists have headlined, alongside thousands of others appearing on smaller stages and performance areas. Films and albums recorded at Glastonbury have been released, and the festival receives extensive television and newspaper coverage. Glastonbury is the largest greenfield festival in the world, and is now attended by around 175,000 people, requiring extensive infrastructure in terms of security, transport, water, and electricity supply."
"a Ladies Day took place on Friday 4 June. Royal Bath and West Show The Royal Bath and West is an agricultural show for the West of England. Held every year at its permanent show ground near Shepton Mallet, Somerset, it is one of a number of County shows in the United Kingdom and is a four-day show. In 2009 and 2010 it attracted over 155,000 people. The Royal Bath and West Show is organised and run by the Royal Bath and West of England Society. It was founded in 1777 in Bath by a group of philanthropists led by"
"Boomtown Fair Boomtown Fair is a four-day annual music festival held in the United Kingdom over the second weekend of August. It started in 2009 and since 2011 has been held at the Matterley Estate in Hampshire, which is part of the South Downs National Park. In 2018 the Fair took place over 9–12 August, with a limited opening on the 8th, and held a 60,000 capacity. The event sold out of standard tickets in February 2018. Each yearly instalment of the festival is referred to as a ""Chapter""; this reflects that each instalment continues the storyline from the previous"
"number of annual events including a village show, a beer festival (organised by Keighley and Worth Valley Railway) and a music festival at a village pub. Each summer the village holds an annual Straw Race. The race was inaugurated in 1976 and since then has raised £300,000, for charity, from its participants via sponsorship. Competitors are required to carry a bale of straw (20 kg) between five Public Houses in the Oxenhope area and drink a beer in each pub. The last stretch to the Dog & Gun Pub is uphill, past Leeming Reservoir. Many of the competitors wear fancy"
"ushers in the annual agricultural awakening. Other offerings include scavenger hunts, storytellers, face painting, maple-themed crafts, pancake brunch, and a Chef’s Cook-off Challenge. Their biggest fundraiser of the year, the annual wine tasting and silent auction pay tribute to Stamford Museum & Nature Center's history within its community. The June event consists of wine tastings, samplings of food from local restaurants and caterers and a silent auction. Stamford Museum & Nature Center hosts its family-oriented Spring on the Farm Festival Weekend each May. Focusing on New England's spring traditions, including sheep shearing and wool spinning, one can view the newest"
"Shepton Mallet Digital Arts Festival The Shepton Mallet Digital Arts Festival (also known as the Shepton Digi Fest) is a British annual public arts festival and creative industry showcase based in the Somerset town of Shepton Mallet at venues including Kilver Court. The Festival was founded in 2009 and marked its third year with a three-day programme of events from 6 to 8 October 2011. The 2011 festival featured contributions from Merlin Crossingham, the creative director of Aardman Animation's Wallace and Gromit, Aardman model maker Jim Parkyn, film composer William Goodchild, Natural History film-maker Paul Appleby, Icon Film's Dominic Weston"
"Festival is held yearly in nearby Worthing, South Dakota (20 miles south) over the last weekend in August. One of the largest outdoor Christian music festivals in the world, yearly attendance has continued to grow from less than 2,000 people in its first year (1998) to over 300,000+ attendees in 2013. The festival is a major attraction and has drawn multiple performances over the years from some of biggest names in Christian music including Skillet, Tenth Avenue North, and Remedy Drive. The Washington Pavilion contains the Kirby Science Discovery Center, as well as two performing arts centers that host several"
"Worthy Farm for the Glastonbury Festival (about 7 miles from Glastonbury) — a parade of free buses and coaches take ticket holders to and from the festival site. Bus services operate from the town to Yeovil, Shepton Mallet, Street and Wincanton. The town is on the Monarch's Way long-distance footpath. Attractions in Castle Cary include a small circular eighteenth-century prison called the roundhouse. This is a temporary prison, or village lock-up. It was built in 1779 by Mr WM Clark for £23, from money left to the poor of Castle Cary in 1605. The structure is circular, stone and has"
"in the county; others include the Frome Festival and the Trowbridge Village Pump Festival, which, despite its name, is held at Farleigh Hungerford in Somerset. The annual circuit of West Country Carnivals is held in a variety of Somerset towns during the autumn, forming a major regional festival, and the largest Festival of Lights in Europe. In Arthurian legend, Avalon became associated with Glastonbury Tor when monks at Glastonbury Abbey claimed to have discovered the bones of King Arthur and his queen. What is more certain is that Glastonbury was an important religious centre by 700 and claims to be"
"It has a three-stage Somerset tower supported by pairs of full-height corner buttresses. The south-east octagonal stair turret leads to an outer door. A highlight of the summer in Muchelney and adjacent Thorney is the mid-summer Lowland Games, a light-hearted adaptation of the Highland games, since 1984. Events have included (hay) bale racing, raft racing, ferret racing, wellie tossing, a dog show, 10k flour trail run, tug-of-war, equestrian exhibitions, mud wrestling, and a battle of the bands (with the winning act getting a gig at the Glastonbury Festival). Muchelney Muchelney () is a clustered village and civil parish in Somerset,"
"Tithe Barn, Pilton The Tithe Barn at Cumhill Farm in Pilton, Somerset, England, was built in the 14th century as a tithe barn to hold produce for Glastonbury Abbey. It is a Grade I listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument. The others are the Tithe Barn, Manor Farm, Doulting, the West Pennard Court Barn and the Glastonbury tithe barn, now the Somerset Rural Life Museum. The barn, of coursed and squared rubble, was originally built in the 14th and 15th centuries to hold the produce from farms in the area who paid one tenth of their produce to Glastonbury Abbey"
"The majority of staff are volunteers, helping the festival to raise millions of pounds for charity organisations. Regarded as a major event in British culture, the festival is inspired by the ethos of the hippie, counterculture, and free festival movements. It retains vestiges of these traditions, such as the Green Fields area, which includes sections known as the Green Futures and Healing Fields. After the 1970s, the festival took place almost every year and grew in size, with the number of attendees sometimes being swollen by gatecrashers. Michael Eavis hosted the first festival, then called Pilton Festival, after seeing an"
"Royal Bath and West Show The Royal Bath and West is an agricultural show for the West of England. Held every year at its permanent show ground near Shepton Mallet, Somerset, it is one of a number of County shows in the United Kingdom and is a four-day show. In 2009 and 2010 it attracted over 155,000 people. The Royal Bath and West Show is organised and run by the Royal Bath and West of England Society. It was founded in 1777 in Bath by a group of philanthropists led by Edmund Rack, and is now a registered charity organisation"
"Dunster (Somerset) and Whimple and Sandford (Devon), all on 17 January (old Twelfth Night). Clevedon (North Somerset) holds an annual Wassailing event in the popularly attended Clevedon Community Orchard, combining the traditional elements of the festival with the entertainment and music of the Bristol Morris Men and their cantankerous Horse. Private readings about people in Somerset in the 1800s revealed that inhabitants of Somerset practised the old Wassailing Ceremony, singing the following lyrics after drinking the cider until they were ""merry and gay:"" A folktale from Somerset reflecting this custom tells of the Apple Tree Man, the spirit of the"
"each August at the Rockhampton Heritage Village features a variety of market stalls, displays, international foods, music and cultural displays. The Rockhampton Heritage Village is also the venue for market days held every second month, and for other annual events such as the Rockhampton Heritage Festival held each June, and the annual Emergency Services Day which is held every July. For more formal occasions, there is a function centre called ""The Shearing Shed"" which is regularly used for school formals and weddings. Opened in 1985, closed in 2011 and then re-opened in 2015 the Rockhampton Music Bowl regularly plays host"