Festivals in Europe. Secret Garden Party.UK July 24-27
If you take the Burning Man,move it to a strange place on the lake in the English countryside, and add the coolest costume party, just get Secret Garden. Whether or not you need to take
festival Empty Hills and move it to the Black Rock Desert in Nevada, in late
August, and then all this cool mix and drag to England. And then it will be
exact Festival Secret Garden Party .
This beloved and despite the
name is not stored in the secret festival arranges the English wilderness
dozens of thematic spaces for one wild four-day party.
The festival was started by
Fred Felouvesom in 2004 as an alternative to the major music festivals. Since
its inception, the festival and its popularity grew sizes from 1000 in 2004 to
32,000 revelers daily in 2013.
In 2013 at the Festival were:
Faithless, Regina Spektor, 2ManyDJs, Django Django, David Icke, The
Ladykillers, SYKUR, Bastille Phildel and many others. Over the years, it
appeared: OK GO, Gorillas, Morcheeba, Caravan Palace, and Lamb.
Approximately half of the
proceeds from ticket agents Festival returns grants creators installations and
performances, gardeners, as they are called here.
The festival is an escape from
normality - surprises and new experiences around every corner. Creativity,
participation, research and adventure - the basic principles for which the
organizers are working and gardeners.
In 2013, the theme of the
festival was "Superstition." How to provoke a fight between sober
analytical left brain and come up with reality right? Secret Garden solved the
problem. All participants learned his attitude to the supernatural,
inexplicable and irrational.
Practical information:
Buy tickets in advance on the
festival website, using the sentence "early birds" and installment
payment can buy a ticket is much cheaper.
The festival takes place in
the space of 100 hectares of Mill Hill Field in Abbots Ripton, 8 kilometers
north of Huntingdon County Cambridgeshire.
Nearest hotels to the
festival: elephant @ castle 4 km, George Hotel 5 km, Magdalene House 5 km, The
Old Bridge Hotel 5 km, Three Horseshoes Inn 6 km, Cheriton House 6 km, Redwings
Lodge 7 km, Shire Lodge 7 km, Forty Winks Bed and Breakfast 8 km, Slepe Hall
Hotel 8 km, The Golden Lion Hotel is 9 km. Contact and reservation in advance
is better.
How to get there: By plane to
London. From London King Cross station to Huntington train about 1 hour. The
remaining 8 km with 11 rooms or passing transport.
