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The Nailsworth Festival

The Nailsworth Festival aims, for one week of the year, to bring something a little different to the cultural life of our community, providing something for everyone. The 2025 festival will run from Saturday 17th May until Saturday 24th May.

The full programme of events is now available. The printed brochure will be hitting the streets soon and we plan to open booking on 31st March.

We’re pleased to announce that Dom Joly, the creator of Trigger Happy TV, will be headlining Nailsworth Festival for 2025. The Festival starts on Saturday 17th May, with plenty of entertainment for all the family in and around Mortimer Gardens. Across the following week the Festival will also include classical music from the Mithras Trio; a talk on Cotswold Dinosaurs; music from around the world with Phillip Clouts Quartet and blues from Ken Wood & the Mixers. 

You can support us by becoming a Friend of the Nailsworth Festival. Membership offers the perks of the opportunity to reserve seats and and an invitation to our pre-festival reception!

Some photos from Festival Saturday 2024 are in our Gallery page, where there are also images of the Acoustic and Roots evening and the performance by Moscow Drug Club. Photos from earlier Festival Saturdays are also still available there.

Our general email address is festival@nailsworthfestival.org.uk. We always welcome suggestions for future festival events and we would love to hear from anyone who would like to be involved with helping to run the festival. 

Sponsors

We would like to thank our sponsors whose donations help make the Festival possible: (Click on the sponsor’s logo to open their website in a new page or tab.)

The Executors of Robert Stiling

NESS Nailsworth Export Service Support

Supporters

Our thanks go to the following for their financial and practical support in the organisation of the Festival:

Nailsworth Town Council Ruskin Mill Town Information Centre Nailsworth News Stroud News & Journal Stroud Times