NEWS NEWS NEWS
Riverside 2012 - 16th/17th June
New Riverside Poster - please feel free to download, print and share - just click on the thumbnail 
New this year *** THE RIVERSIDE FRINGE *** Your chance to star at Riverside in the Battle of the Buskers.
We are inviting anyone who fancies entertaining the Riverside crowds to come along and a do a turn - be it a spot of street dance, stand up comedy, fire eating, sword swallowing - anything.
Festival goers can pick up a token on their way in and use it to vote for their favourite act. Tell all your friends, do a turn, or just come and watch - you can be any age, amateur of professional, and there will be a prize for the best performer(s). To book a slot in advance email buskers@riversidefestival.charlbury.com or turn up on the day, book up, and wait your turn.
Something’s brewing at Riverside........it's competition time! NOTE: Competition now closed
Help us name our special Riverside Festival beer. Come up with a taste-tingling name for Riverside’s special festival beer and you could win a set of six bespoke T-shirts for you and your friends emblazoned with the name of the beer and your name; and a free round of drinks at the Festival itself.
Oxfordshire’s favourite craft brewer Wychwood is producing an exclusive golden summer beer for this year’s Riverside Festival in Charlbury, Oxfordshire. To christen the glorious pint we’re running a competition to name the beer.
The competition is now closed. We had lots of great suggestions. We will be announcing the winner on Monday 7th May.
The Riverside ale will only be on sale at The Riverside Festival in Charlbury on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th June.
For more information on Wychwood Brewery visit: Wychwood Brewery
If you would like to get involved with Riverside please get intouch, you can email us on the Contacts page, or Tweet us. We'd love to hear from you.
If you'd like us to keep intouch with you, you can now subscibe to our mailing list - don't worry, we won't inundate you with email, and we won't pass your details on either. Subscibe HERE
Our friends at twitney have put together a great film about Riverside, taken from the 2010 Festival. Click on the logo to see it now.
Riverside photographer, David Murphy (no not the same one that writes those 'reviews') created a brilliant timelapse video of the building of the main stage.
Tim Bearder and Dave Gilyeat presented their popular BBC Introducing show live from Riverside on Saturday 19th June 2010. The program has been dropped from iPlayer now, but we hope to have it back up to listen to from here soon.
Here's what Tim had to say about Riverside:
‘Incredible festival at the weekend! I came and did the show from there on Saturday and was blown away by the quality of the event'
‘It was really nice to see those great local bands on the main stage. The line-up on Saturday; Charlie Coombes, The Family Machine and ending with Borderville made for a show that many bigger festivals ought to have been seriously envious of.'
‘Please pass on my congratulations to everyone involved it is an amazing example of some genuinely altruistic community spirit.’
Tim Bearder, BBC Radio Oxford
Witney TV came along to Riverside to film a great piece. Click the logo to see more.
You can hear some of the bands on the new Riverside MP3 Player, just click on the image
For Band & Artist applications, EPKs, website links etc., please email music [at] riversidefestival [dot] charlbury [dot] com
Alternatively, you can send Demos or Press Kits to the postal address on the Contacts page
We have two stages, over two days covering any and all styles of music. From indie to blues, folk to rock, world to pop. We are also taking applications for the Riverside Stage @ Cornbury Music Festival - please apply in the same way
We're sorry, but we can't respond individually to all artist applications. We will contact all shortlisted applicants directly.
For Trader applications, please email traders [at] riversidefestival [dot] charlbury [dot] com
We're looking for Festival Traders and Food Vendors for 2011. We like local craftsmen and tradesmen, maybe even demonstrate your craft, pocket money stalls, nic-naks, festival fare and the like, and good value well prepared food, with flavours from around the world.
Note: Concessions are available for Charlbury based Traders & organisations. Please email for details
For all other General enquiries, please email admin [at] riversidefestival [dot] charlbury [dot] com
If you would like to get involved with Riverside we would love to hear from you. We always need people to help with the set up and breakdown. Even a couple of hours makes a big difference. We especially need help over the weekend with stewarding. So please do get in touch, and be part of a great community event. You can get in touch to find out more at volunteer [at] riversidefestival [dot] charlbury [dot] com
Looking forward to hearing from you.
The Riverside Crew
IMPORTANT: Due to licensing laws, no alcohol can be taken into the Riverside Festival. However, there will be a wide range of alcoholic and non-alcoholic refreshments available on site at very reasonable prices.
We operate an ID system at all times.
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