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Thousands of people every year visit Burford to admire its handsome buildings and the celebrated view. But Burford is not just a Cotswold theme park. There are people living here - professionals, traders and craftsmen - whose roots in the town go back for more than a century; there are people from the villages round who help to staff the shops and businesses, families with young children at the playgroup and the primary school, teenagers from the School boarding house, as well as newcomers, the old and the retired.
Burford is a vibrant and friendly community, where people greet you in the street, chat to you in the shops and quietly look after their neighbours when they are in difficulties. With less than twelve hundred residents, Burford maintains more shops and businesses than many places twice its size: you can still live and die in Burford without ever leaving the town.
The festival aims to build on this fund of awareness and good citizenship by offering a range of activities and entertainment to appeal to every part of the community. We want to give people the opportunity to sample new cultural experiences at affordable prices; from the town, the villages around or from further afield, you are all welcome! |
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For information regarding the 2007 or future festivals - please contact via the email address below |
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WELCOME TO THE
OFFICIAL FESTIVAL SITE
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BURFORD FESTIVAL 2009 |
July 4th - 18th
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Planning and organisation for the 2009 festival is now underway
Details of Events and Artists will be added to this site shortly
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The 2007 Festival took place from 16 to 24 June.
Attendances were double those in 2005 - the Blues night with Eugene Bridges attracted an audience of nearly 500 and the Festival as a whole made a profit, enabling us to return funds to the Burford charities we support.
We managed to avoid the worst of the wet weather: the sun shone on the events that really needed sunshine - the Fête and the open gardens - and it was not until the day after the Festival had finished that the river Windrush overflowed and put the site under a foot of water!
The photographs on the next page record a wide variety of events. The outstanding success was the lunch for older residents, generously grant-aided by the Big Lottery fund ‘Awards For All’: a sunny day brought 200 guests to the Festival marquee to enjoy a meal provided by Burford enterprises and served by volunteers, and a fleet of cars ferried those who were unable to make their own way to the marquee. Two conjurors visited the tables to entertain the guests and everybody enjoyed themselves.
Throughout the Festival we were hugely encouraged by the support of local businesses, listed on the Links page, as well as by the financial contributions of 130 Friends and the help of nearly 100 volunteers from every part of the town who opened their gardens, made cakes, manned stalls at the Fête, posted signs, distributed leaflets, and acted as drivers, stewards, cashiers and movers of tables and chairs. This was the best outcome of the Festival, because it showed more eloquently than any words or pictures why Burford is so special and why people like it here. |
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Slideshow Photography by PETER GOULD |
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