The Good Life Experience
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The Good Life Experience

at Estate Farm Shop, Hawarden
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The Good Life Experience takes place at Hawarden Estate, Flintshire, North East Wales, from 16-18 September. It is a feel-good festival with a difference.

Now in its third year and co-founded by singer, broadcaster and author Cerys Matthews with Pedlars founders Charlie and Caroline Gladstone, The Good Life Experience draws the best of literature festivals, music festivals and food festivals into one outside event: it’s all about passion and discovery.
Cerys has hand-picked a fantastic music line-up, from Romanian gypsy band Fanfare Ciocarlia, to DJ Gilles Peterson. The Campfire Cooking Sessions will see a host of celebrity chefs, from Thomasina Miers to Bill Granger demonstrating their skills over the campfire.

There is a strong aspect of craft running through the weekend and this year there will be 40 makers: blacksmiths, potters, boat builders, weavers, mosaic makers, printers, axe specialists and more. The festival combines contemporary and heritage, inviting visitors to engage, in a modern way, with objects that have been around for thousands of years.

All of the makers run hands-on activities, giving visitors the chance to invest some time and effort to make something. Almost all activities are included in the ticket price, from axe throwing to spoon carving, and there are free rides all weekend at the 1930s vintage fairground.

There is good news for families in 2016 as the age limit for children to go free has been raised from 9 to 12 years old, and the upper age limit for youth tickets has risen from 16 to 17 years old.

Please visit www.thegoodlifeexperience.co.uk/ for more information.

Gilles Peterson

Gilles Peterson appearing at this event

Best known as a radio presenter on Saturday afternoons on BBC 6Music and as an international club DJ, Gilles Peterson is also an avid record…

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Cerys Matthews

Cerys Matthews appearing at this event

Cerys Matthews first achieved fame as lead singer of the group Catatonia. She had an equally successful parallel solo career duetting with Tom Jones…

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Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo appearing at this event

The author of over 90 books, Michael's reputation in the world of children's books is unmatched, 'The Sleeping Sword', 'Why The Whales Came' and 'Dear…

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Also Appearing

Mercury Rev (DJ Set), John Cooper Clarke, Mari Samuelsen, 12 Ensemble, Fanfare Ciocarlia, Mike Garry, Gordie MacKeeman & His Rhythm Boys, Jeremy Vine, Booka Brass Band, Flint Male Voice Choir, Diabel Cissokho, Stealing Sheep, Hooton Tennis Club, The Magnetic North, Swing Patrol, Shirt Tail Stompers, DJ78, Tom Hodgkinson, The Idler Academy, Dylans Mobile Bookstore, Do Book Co, Anja Dunk, Jen Goss, Donna Somerset Vintage Mobile Disco, Murray Lachlan Young, Garance et les Mitochondries, Caught By The River, John Lewis Stempel, Rob Penn, Chris Watson, Ian Rawes, Amy Liptrot, Matt Sewell, Heavenly Jukebox, Laura Barton, Modern Studies, Aldous Harding, Laura Cannell, July Skies, James Macdonald Lockhart, Peter Francis, John Higgs, Rosenblume, Camerata Quartet, Vod Music, Mark Shayler, Gladstone's Library

Rated Excellent

Estate Farm Shop

Chester Road
Flintshire
Hawarden
CH5 3FB

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Estate Farm Shop

Chester Road
Flintshire
Hawarden
CH5 3FB

See all events at Estate Farm Shop