Folk fun at Fairport's Cropredy

By Tim Bearder
BBC Oxford

Cropredy takes place on the weekend of the 13th to the 15th of August

This is Oxfordshire's daddy festival.

It's been going since the 1970s, this will be the 42nd show. With roughly 20,000 people attending it's one of the largest folk festivals in the country, second only to perhaps Cambridge.

The thing you'll notice about the punters at Cropredy is that most of them seem to have been there 42 times before!

It is very much an annual pilgrimage and the grandmothers and grandfathers bring their children.

They in turn bring their children, until you have entire extended families who have their yearly reunions with other extended families on the same weekend in a field near a little village called Cropredy in North Oxfordshire.

I honestly can't think of a more loving and friendly place on Earth and Cropredy holds a very special place in my heart. Music-wise its been pretty down-the-line folk but last year they had Supergrass headlining Thursday and The Levellers on Friday which broadened the appeal a little.

However, it isn't really about the music for most of the revelers here, it's about the sense of community, friendship and fun.

It takes place on the weekend of the 13th to the 15th of August.