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This is Festival Country!

The amount and range of activity for a sparsely populated area is impressive, whether it's music, sports and outdoor events, festivals, fairs or shows that you're looking for. The range of musical entertainment alone is astonishing. For listings visit the Broadsheep website to find out more. It's also well worth looking at the Arts Alive website which promotes the whole range of the arts throughout Shropshire and Herefordshire, including a packed programme of films from Flicks in the Sticks, usually shown in a village hall and often with a bar. As well as the many events listed below, these next links also make suggestions on how to make a stay in this area memorable: What's on near SY7 0BW (Well House postcode), BBC Radio Shropshire and Powys 'What's On'.

Music and Art

Wenlock Poetry Festival (13th April  to 15th April 2012) 

Sheep Music Festival Presteigne (Friday 20th to Sunday 22nd July 2012)

Presteigne Festival of Music & Arts (Thurs 23rd to Tues 30th August 2012)

Herefordshire Art Week (Sat 8th to Sun 16th September 2012)

Sports and Outdoors

Tour de Presteigne as part of Presteigne Eco Weekend (taking a rest in 2012; probably back in 2013)

Wiggle Wild Eric 101 mile cyclosport bike ride around Bishops Castle and the Welsh Marches (Sunday 20th May 2012)

Bishops Castle Walking Festival (Tues12th to Thurs 14th June 2012)

Bishops Castle Tandem Triathlon (Sat 30th June 2012) 

Pearce Cycles Downhill Series Round 6, (Sat 11th to Sun 12th September 2012)) 

Fairs and Festivals

Clun Green Man Festival (Saturday 5th  to Monday 7th May 2012)

Bishops Castle May Fair (Fri 4th and Sat 5th 2012)

Ludlow Food Spring Festival (Sat 12th and Sun 13th May 2012)

Marches Transport Festival  (Sat 12th and Sun 13th May 2012)

Arbor Tree Day, Aston-on-Clun (Sunday 27th May 2012)

Bishops Castle Midsummer Rejoicing (Sat 23rd and Sun 24th June 2012)

Shobdon Food and Flower Festival (Fri 22nd, Sat 23rd, Sun 24th July 2012)

Ludlow Festival (Sat 23rd June to Sun 8th July 2012)

Bishops Castle Carnival(Sunday 1st July 2012)

Bishops Castle Real Ale Festival (Friday 6th and Saturday 7th July 2012)

Mortimer Country Food Fair Saturday 14th July 2012)

Clun Carnival (Sat 4th 2012)

Ludlow Green Fair (Sunday 26th August 2012)

Knighton Town Crier Competition (Saturday 18th August 2012)

Ludlow Food Festival (Friday, Saturday and Sunday 7th, 8th and 9th September 2012)

Bishops Castle Real Furniture Show (Sun 16th and Sun 17th September 2012)

Bishops Castle Michaelmas Fair (Sat 15th and Sun 16th September 2012)

Clun Valley Beer Festival (Fri 5th September to Sun 7th October 2012)

Shows

Presteigne Art Show (Not sure if this is on in 2012)

Royal Welsh Smallholder and Garden Festival (Sat 19th and Sun 20th May 2012)

Kinsham Classics of Yesteryear Show  Not sure if this is on for 2012, but if it is it's usually the last Sunday in July.  This is a super little show with classic cars, commercials, buses, tractors, stationary engines and motor cycles

Presteigne and Norton Car and Motorcycle Show (Sunday June 10th 2012)

Royal Welsh Show (Mon 23rd to Thurs 26th July 2012)

Knighton Show and Carnival (Saturday 25th August 2012 - Bank Holiday weekend)

Presteigne - Vintage Sports Car Club Welsh Trial and Car Rally (Saturdayand Sunday 13th and 14th October 2012)