After a hugely successful debut that achieved two nominations in the UK Festivals Awards, Rhythm Festival returns to Twinwood Arena, near Bedford for the weekend of August 3rd-5th, 2007.

Festival Director, Jim Driver says, “Rhythm Festival is a small, friendly event aimed at people who enjoy festivals but who don’t appreciate rip-off burgers, Middle Ages sanitation and flavour-of-the-month programming.”

2007’s Rhythm Festival includes a hugely increased kid’s field - including mini olympics, workshops, entertainers and dodgems – a much-enlarged Healing/Alternative Culture field, a Comedy Stage (programmed by Ronnie Golden), a Folk Club and a solar-powered Cinema featuring an old-style kid’s morning, mini-seasons of classic comedies, gangster movies and a raft of more cutting edge movies.

Rhythm Festival’s value-added facilities include flush toilets (augmented by twice as many portaloos as the legal requirement!), luxury showers and supervised and secure campsites. Food traders are hand-picked and will be selling Indian and Asian specialities, rare breed and organic burgers, Mexican, two pure vegetarian caterers, gourmet ice creams, smoothies and lots more.

Three bars will be selling real ales and lagers from Wells & Young’s, plus guest ales, real Tricky ciders and an enlarged selection of wines and spirits.

The first acts to be announced are
(by day, in alphabetical order):

FRIDAY
The Beat, Dean Friedman, Levellers, The Men They Couldn’t Hang, The Yardbirds

SATURDAY
Buick 6, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Prince Buster, Seth Lakeman, King Naat Veliov’s Original Kokani Orchestra, Iain Matthews, Dave Pegg/PJ Wright, Waking The Witch, Stan Webb’s Chicken Shack

SUNDAY
Alabama 3, Band From County Hell, Dr Feelgood, John Mayall & The Blues Breakers, Richie Milton & The Lowdown, Neville Staples Band, The Turns, Tiny Tin Lady

Tickets available from www.rhythmfestival.net
Ticket/information line (office hours): 01234 350413