Valley Fest organisers have confirmed that the festival will return for its eleventh edition in 2026. The award-winning, family friendly food and music festival, which is located beside the Chew Valley Lake, celebrated its 10th birthday last weekend (August 1-4). Thousands of people attended the event, which has been dubbed the UK's 'most beautiful festival' .
Headline acts included Sophie Ellis Bextor, The Feeling, Tinie Tempah and Sister Sledge, while in the world of food, Thomasina Miers (OBE) and Romy Gill (MBE) headed up the food programme. Festival-goers could join feasts, watch cooking demonstrations and enjoy a vast selection of carefully curated street food. Meanwhile, Arcadia - the performance-art collective, made itself a fully fledged part of the Valley Fest team, and the Alchemist's Playground saw, for the third year running, the whole family get involved in making structures and sculptures from recycled materials, like a helicopter and aeroplane wings.
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