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Award-winning Festival comes to Boughton House

Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway’s Vintage Festival is back on 13^th-15^th July and this time on our doorstep at Boughton House, whose listed park of 2345 acres of beautifully designed landscapes, waterscapes and woodlands will form the perfect backdrop.

Launched at Goodwood in 2010, where it won Best New Festival at the inaugural UK Festival Awards, Vintage was invited by the Southbank Centre in London to be a show piece of the Festival of Britain Celebrations. Building on this success for 2012, Wayne and Gerardine have teamed up with another award-winning festival producer and live music business, MAMA Group, to transform the stunning stately home, Boughton Estate, into the capital of British culture and cool.

Having itself won Best New Festival for its inaugural ‘Wilderness’ event last summer, MAMA Festivals will be bringing all of its production and promotional expertise to the Vintage Festival, obtained through years of experience of producing sell out Festivals such as Global Gathering, Lovebox and The Great Escape.  For one glamorous weekend, toasting classic style from the past 80 years of music, fashion, fi lm, art, design and food, Vintage is set to offer a truly unique festival experience for 2012. Vintage promises an opportunity to enjoy some of the fi nest elements of British culture.  Whether it is learning the dances of the decades, boogying along to tunes of an incredible DJ set, having a decade specifi c makeover or taking advantage of the Vintage Marketplace, brimming with independent retailers and renowned brands from past to present, it truly is a creative feast for all the ages.

Celebrating a range of musical genres, styles and capturing some classic sounds, get ready to hear some of the fi nest names in musicianship at Vintage in 2012, including Aloe Blacc, Cameo, Chic Ft Nile Rodgers, Baxter Dury, Betty Wright, and Alice Russell.

The immersive set dresses of the Vintage nightclubs will each be dedicated to a different decade and feature real dance fl oors and sound systems. There will be 1940s swing, 1950s rock n roll and 1960s pop, easy listening and mod culture, 1970s soul, reggae, funk and disco classics and warehouse rave, boogie and house culture from the 1980s - 1990’s. Truly something Festival partners include cultural institutions such as the V&A, Design Council, Design Museum, Museum of London and The University for The Creative Arts. More than 250 vintage fashion and mid-century modern homeware sellers will take part, and there will be 45 fashion and upcycling workshops.  These include catwalk shows curated by Twiggy, Jo Wood, Rusty Egan and Brendan Cole and hair and beauty makeovers. Vintage classic cars, campers and caravans will be on display among brilliantly conceived food and cocktails, classic fi lms, inspired family activities, The Chap Olympiad, the Bicycle Bazaar, Future Vintage, The Vintage Funfair, Wall of Death and beautiful camping and glamping.  An event not to be missed!

For details or tickets for Vintage Festival, please visit

www.vintagefestival.co.uk