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UK’s longest running independent music festival to close

Towersey Festival began in 1965, five years before the first Glastonbury event, but will end this year in the face of 'economic challenges'.

Neil Puffett
3 min read

The oldest independent music festival in the UK has said it will not continue beyond this year due to spiralling costs.
Founded in the Oxfordshire village of Towersey by Denis Manners in 1965, Towerse...

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