The Willowman Festival has all the qualities of an "Old School" style festival.
Ex-Musical Director of the Wickerman Festival in Scotland, Steve Williams has branched out on his own to present The Willowman Festival.
"I took what was a punk festival with 1500 attendants, and turned it into a family friendly, old school, hippy style event (with 18,000 people on site in 2007) that was full of good vibes and good Karma, making the whole thing a great success. Since resigning as Musical Director, I have had plenty of time to reflect on what actually made The Wickerman successful." says Steve Williams, founder of The Willowman Festival
Steve continues "The surveys always showed that the line up and atmosphere were the main influences for such a successful festival. Now however, things have changed - corporate image and heavy police presence have actually been highlighted as the main cause for destroying the festival atmosphere. I have been running a VW event at Lenthor Farm, the site for The Willowman Festival, for four years. This year was very successful and the clientele all commented on how well thought out it was, family friendly and a great site."
The Willowman Festival is situated at Lenthor Farm just off the edge of the North Yorkshire Moors near the beautiful village of Osmotherley. Lenthor Farm is full of magic and earthly atmosphere.
The custodian of the land, "Mad Farmer" Derek Plews has constructed his own Pagan Stone Circle at the top of the site. It is called “Sentry Circle” and is used by local and visiting Pagans from far and wide. This also brings a great calming effect to The Willowman Festival.
The site boasts some fantastic panoramic views and on a clear day from the Stones, you can see as far as Ingleton at the head of The Yorkshire Dales and across The Yorkshire Moors taking in such landmarks as far as Rosebury Topping.
With Derek's kind permission we are able to utilise the weekend preceding Summer Solstice to hold The Willowman Festival.
Our Main Stage features some of the most popular festival bands with all styles of music catered for.
There's an Acoustic Stage in the Beer Tent, the Reggae Sound System Tent, a Healing Area, Spiritualists, Workshops, plus other attractions.
There is camping available with lots of quality trade stands, a bar and a wide variety of food stalls to suit even the worldliest of tastes.
A Fun Friendly Atmosphere with lots for all the Family