FESTIVALS
Best fests
Festival season is here and whether you're a foodie, jazz aficionado, culture vulture or Champagne lover there's an event to suit. We pick the best of this year's bunch ...
by REBECCA NORRIS
Foodie fun Big Feastival offers a mix of music and
BEST FOR FOOD
Big Feastival KINGHAM, OXFORDSHIRE 25-27 AUGUST
thebigfeastival.com
Former Blur bassist Alex James hosts this music and food extravaganza on his idyllic Cotswolds farm. Here, you can dance in the fields before refuelling on some world-class street food or sharpening your culinary skills at a cookery workshop. Singers such as Sigrid and Tom Grennan provide the soundtrack, while chefs, including Asma Khan (owner of Darjeeling Express restaurant in London) and TV personality Anna Haugh tantalise your taste buds.
BEST FOR THE MIND
KITE
KIRTLINGTON PARK, OXFORDSHIRE 9-11 JUNE
kitefestival.co.uk
If you like your festivals as intellectual as they are musical, this is for you. Overlooking the Chiltern hills, KITE blends live music with a series of speakers on literature, politics, art and culture. The line-up includes Dame Joan Collins, Sir John Major, David Baddiel, and Alastair Campbell.
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