Wilderness Festival - Join the unique world of adventure and exploration

Wilderness Festival returns for its eighth year, with an even more innovative and expansive programme filled with the finest of the arts. After a sold out 2017, Wilderness invites you to explore the unique world the festival creates, explore and immerse yourself in the beautiful environment.

The Wilderness line-up is always designed to surprise and delight, and they’ve definitely not disappointed this year. Headliners bringing the party this year include Chic Ft Nile Rodgers - arguably the greatest disco band in the world - alongside Brit and Grammy nominated Bastille, the global phenomenon, who have sold over 4 million albums worldwide and will add anthemic, atmospheric pop to the mix. Renowned for his experimental and intelligent electronic compositions, Jon Hopkins joins the bill. There is also another Very Special Guest to be announced further down the line…

Wilderness have also curated an impressive selection of the very best emerging rising stars; including 21-year-old IAMDDB with her very own distinct urban jazz signature; Midlands singer-songwriter Mahalia is not to be missed with her distinctive rich vocals and evocative song writing, refusing to be genre defined; Joy Crookes is already being hailed as one the brightest new stars and will certainly mesmerise audiences with her modern take on soul and R&B.

After dark at Wilderness, The Valley comes alive. And this year Wilderness blends the legendary Groove Armada, with one of the Berlin scene’s newest stars Peggy Gou. Korean DJ Peggy Gou will rouse the crowds with her own mix of kinetic, dark pulsing house and techno. Whilst Groove Armada will drop their finest mix of sophisticated house that never disappoints. This is the ultimate party in the forest, with The Valley a natural amphitheatre beneath the trees.

Before Wilderness, festivals didn’t have forest feasts or Banquet dining. And Wilderness remains the pioneer in quality, scale and ambition for festival dining. With its infamous culinary collaborations, the biggest names in the world of cuisine flock to be part of Wilderness and this year’s line-up will not disappoint. New chefs for this year include Santiago Lastra, Sam Buckley and James Lowe who will host at the breath-taking setting of The Chefs Table, overlooking the lake.

The festival is very much known for its stellar constellation of musical acts, world-class chefs, late-night Valley parties, and its talks and theatre programme. But alongside the revelry, it also curates a Wellbeing programme for The Sanctuary; a festival within a festival featuring some of the globe’s esteemed health, fitness and wellbeing professionals.

Guests are encouraged to retreat from the revelry and recharge with explore a wealth of wellness experiences. They can meet highly regarded yogis for masterclasses, box or dance themselves fit, explore mind and soul at workshops on love and self-care, or escape to the lakes and forests for wild classes.

This year Wilderness has introduced 3 brand new Wellbeing venues, dedicated to whatever suits your mood: The Solar space where you can energise and take part in fitness sessions, The Yoga Sphere where you’ll find every type of yoga from the finest teachers and The Lunar Sphere where you can escape for calming energy, workshops and meditation.

Wilderness Festival is all about creating your own festival - embrace the new and meet the most amazing people this August. Join the wonderful, unique world away from home.

You can get your tickets here.