Recently shortlisted for Best Northern Irish Festival Award
Press Release
Sunflowerfest returns 17-19th August 2012 . After the success of this years festival where attendance trebled to 3,000 and hundreds camped for the weekend at Tubbys Farm 31 Cabra Road Hillsborough. Sunflowerfest 2012 will be bigger and better than ever .
Sunflowerfest 2012 will offer new areas , a great live music, an arena of ideas and lots of activities for families and kids of all ages .
Early Bird Ticket Promotion: Full weekend with camping early bird tickets are now available at the great price of £39 from HMV (Belfast, Lisburn and Dublin), Molly’s Parlour, Rusty Zip, Hillsborough Court House, Belfast Welcome Centre, Cafe del Mondo (Derry), Varin Marshall @ Botanic Media,Phil McCarroll @ SO:NI and Lyndon Stephens @ Champion Sound System. http://www.sunflowerfest.co.uk/tickets/ . There will be major surprises at next years festival so if you are a wise investor its well worth getting your tickets in early. The promotion will run until February 2012.
General Info
With a threefold increase in attendance this year Sunflowerfest plans to double the attendance next year. Tubby’s Farm will be the beautiful venue for the third Sunflowerfest.
Sunflowerfest is an excitingly different and experiential weekend festival of great music and arts. It will nurture the mind, body and soul through a wide range of superb music, fantastic fun for the family, creative writing workshops, film, story telling and interactive art and workshops. There will be yoga, meditation, reiki, aroma therapy and other complementary therapy disciplines.
There will be first class food and drink.
There will be 2 singles camping paddocks and one solely for families
Sunflowerfest donates £2 of every weekend ticket to charity.
Sunflowerfest is a volunteer based festival.
Sunflowerfest shares a love of the countryside.
Some of next years attractions
Sunflowerfest 2012 will feature the Finn Macool main stage, the much acclaimed Campfire Stage and the The Barn ( for the rowdies!) For families and kids of all ages, the Enhanted Glade and the dedicated Kidz Zone ( themed to CS Lewis), will particularly appeal. There will be a (25 stall) craft and food village adjacent to Paddy’s Electric Disco Shed ( a new area for electronica, folktronica and night time DJ sets ) .
The complementary therapies will offer yoga, meditation, Reiki, massage, aroma therapy and Tai Chi. Salon Moot will be the venue for impromptu acts, discussion, poetry, story telling and for anyone with something to say.
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