Wood-Fired Hot Tubs, Culinary Classes and Bjork: Wilderness Festival is Coming!

Article by: Emily Ward|@_drawylime

Mon August 03, 2015 | 00:00 AM


To claim that the UK is at the top of the heap when it comes to whimsically curated festivals wouldn't be a stretch. They've long specialized in wild outdoor festivals that deliver visual feasts, as we can see with last weekend's Secret Garden Party to Abbots Ripton in Cambridgeshire. This weekend will bring another enviable party to England, with Oxfordshire's Wilderness Festival . These British festivals are anything but garden variety. Every event is finely curated, with well-crafted themes and culinary offerings, all featuring ample room for you to create your own experience.

Bjork, George Clinton Parliament & Funkadelic (performing "Return to the Mothership"), Damian Lazarus, Bombino and much more will be rolling through the Wilderness woods this weekend, and that's not the only tree in this forest. Wilderness also offers a lovely spa (with wood-fired hot tubs!) as you can see in the delightful trailer above.

You can also see below that the culinary lineup is a HUGE part of Wilderness. Learn to cook, watch other people learn to cook, or just enjoy the end results. You'll have the chance to learn about Japanese comfort food, smoke some meats, make artisan bread, and discover the finer points of winemaking. Meals are highly social events held at long banquet tables, so you can sit next to someone new!

The festival's very first outing in 2011 earned it the "Best New Fest" throne at the UK Festival Awards, and now in its fifth season, Wilderness has quickly established itself as a heavyweight in the European festival scene where it all began.

Wilderness Lineup 2015