Camping is free, with a limited number of hotel rooms for tent-phobes. What else? There’s a boudoir-aesthetic space called the Love hotel – previously an art installation with film screenings it’s now seemingly a whole area. Look out for: DJ Bus Replacement Service, who is known for wearing a Kim Jong-un mask when she plays (obviously). The main events: The headline slot comes from UK carnival legend Aba Shanti-I, but you also need to catch rising Ugandan selector Kampire and trendy, eccentric Parisian hip-hop DJ Teki Latex. The crowd: Likely to be populated by people who all sort of know each other – largely from an artsy, twentysomething demographic. Limited to 400 punters, in the grounds of Sparkford Hall, a Grade II listed Georgian mansion in Somerset, this is a giant, curated house party melding global sound-system culture and left-field visual art. Look out for DJ Bus Replacement Service at Kallida festival. Try this if you like… the idea of a US-themed Green Man, or Womad plus banjos. What else? Smokehouse BBQ and southern-style street food, plus cowboy tales and rodeo bull rides for the kids. Look out for… Brighton-based fingerpicking virtuoso Gwenifer Raymond, versatile British folkie John Smith and gorgeous blood harmonies from singing sisters the Staves – plus Laura Marling and Paul McCartney producer Ethan Johns solo. Also party-time singalong favourites Hayseed Dixie, the Magic Numbers and the Mavericks. The main events Impressive headliners, including Band of Horses, Kris Kristofferson, Neko Case and Billy Bragg. Acoustic guitars round the yurts surely compulsory. The crowd Men of a certain age wearing hats and facial furniture plus their floaty-frocked broods and well turned-out music fans who favour some homespun authenticity. The vibe Downhomey family fun weekender, y’all, bringing country and Americana to the leafy outskirts of Tunbridge Wells.
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