The Vintage Festival is set to return in 2012 at its new home of the Boughton Estate, Northamptonshire.
Founded by Wayne and Geraldine Hemingway, The Vintage Festival was intended as a family friendly salute to British design. Inspired by the music and fashion of their youth, the event quickly expanded to absorb everything from 1930s jazz to the Acid House explosion.
This summer The Vintage Festival moved to the Southbank Centre, and it seems that 2012 will find the event on the move once again.
The Vintage Festival will return in 2012, at its new home of the Boughton Estate, Northamptonshire. Located within two hours of 80% of the British population, the estate will allow the Hemingways to apply yet more ambition and imagination to the unique event.
Running between July 13th – 15th, the festival will once again celebrate the best in British design. Wayne Hemingway explains:
“By moving to Northamptonshire we’ve made it completely accessible for the rest of the country to get involved with Vintage. We know that there are huge amounts of people around the UK with a fondness for British culture and the vintage scene and we want to make it easier for them to come and enjoy the Vintage experience. We hope to see people from across the country at Vintage and want local businesses and community groups to get involved and bring their vintage contributions to the festival – this could be hairdressers, tea-rooms, local dance groups, collectors or cooks. The more, the merrier!”
“Vintage is a different type of festival, it is like a big dressing-up box, a creative feast for all ages where you can dance the dances of the decades, watch world renowned bands, buy fantastic vintage clothes and accessories, take part in creative workshops, eat wonderful food, watch iconic movies, enjoy catwalk shows, see the cars, the designs the art that helped make Britain the world’s creative hotspot. It’s about having a glamorous, fun, celebratory and uncompromisingly comfortable time in stunning surroundings. We believe that we have found those stunning surroundings in our new home and look forward to having more people from across the country to celebrate Britain in 2012.”
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The Vintage Festival runs between July 13th – 15th.
