Towersey Festival to end after 60 years
The festival began in Oxfordshire and say economic challenges mean this August's event will be their last
Organisers of an Oxfordshire music festival have announced that this year's event will be their last.
Towersey Festival have announced that after 60 years they will bow out.
It was founded by Denis Manners MBE in 1965, five years before Glastonbury.
The festival was first held in the village of Towersey, but moved to nearby Thame in 2015 and finally settled at the Claydon Estate in Buckinghamshire in 2020.
But due to economic challenges, some of which caused by the covid-19 pandemic the festival have announced this years four-day event will be the last.
In a statement on the festival's social media accounts organisers say they're 'truly grateful' for the support over the past 60 years from customers, supports, suppliers and funding.
They add that their thoughts go out to the 35+ festivals who have already cancelled this year and say they hope to find a way to come back stronger in the future.
Festival co-director’s Mary Hodson and Joe Heap, two of Mr Manners' grandchildren, announced the festival's end with the "heaviest of hearts"