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| The Archive |
Index of festivals and outdoor music events Summer 1983 |
| March 31-1 |
CND Easter Festival Greenham Aldermaston-Burghfield. |
| May 1 |
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| May 1 |
Leeds Potter Newton Festival for jobs ( New Model Army ) |
| May 7 |
Youth CND March, Embankment to Brockwell Park, London |
| May 22 |
Free Music Festival, Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow (Radio Clyde) |
| May 21 |
Tears For Fears . Marquee, Great Yarmouth Racecourse |
| May 29 |
Reading Festival. Reading |
| May 29 |
LCC Picnic, Sharpenhoe Clappers, Barton-Le-Clay, Beds. |
| May 30 |
Totness Festival, Barns Ness, nr Dunbar |
| May 30 |
Multicultural Festival, Roundwood Park, Barnes (noon-6pm) |
| June 3 |
Annual Buskers Fair, Meanwhile Gardens, London W10 |
| June 4 |
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| June 4-5 |
Yeovil Bikers Festival, Cricket St Thomas , Somerset. |
| June 11 |
Strawberry Fair, Cambridge |
| June 11 |
Third Welsh Undergound Festival, Bangor |
| June 11-12 |
Leamington Festival, Pump Room Gardens, Leamington Spa. |
| June l1-19 |
Thornham Tree Fayre , Thornham Park nr Eye , Suffolk |
| June 17-19 |
Glastonbury CND Festival, Worthy Farm, Shepton Mallet,Somerset |
| June 17-26 |
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| June 18 |
Rod Stewart at Ibrox Park, Glasgow. |
| June 25 |
Marx with Sparks. Festivai, Alexandra Palace, London. |
| June 25-26 |
Druidstone Festival of Performing Arts |
| June 28 |
David Bowie at Murryfields , Edinburgh. |
| July 1-3 |
Norwich Peaceful Green Festival University Village Norwich, Norfolk |
| July 1,2 |
David Bowie at Milton Keynes Bowl |
| July 2 |
Blues In The Bowl GLC Free Festival Crystal Palace,London |
| July 2-3 |
Eye Festival, Suffolk |
| July 2-3 |
Radlett Free Festival, Herts |
| July 3 |
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| July 3 |
St Paul’s. Carnival and Fair The Green, St Paul’s, Bristol |
| July 9 |
Peter Gabriel at Selhurst Park, London (Crystal Palace Football club ) |
| July 9 |
CND Free Peace Festival Meanwhile Gardens, London W10 |
| July 10 |
Afro-Caribbean Festival, Angel Park, Brixton London |
| July 10 |
Battersea and Wandsworth Festival, Battersea Park ( Free ) |
| July 15 |
Glasgow Free Festival Kelvin Grove Park Bandstand lOpm-midnight. |
| July 15-11 |
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| July 16 |
Runcorn Music Festival ( The Enid ) |
| July I7 |
Free Peace Festival Gloucester Park Basildon Essex .11am –8pm |
| July 17 |
Smokey Bears Picnic, Huddersfield East Yorks (Free) |
| July 24 |
Bristol Free Festival!, Ashton Court, Bristol |
| July 23 |
Duran Duran at Aston Villa football Ground ( MENCAP benefit ) |
| July 26-31 |
Glastonbury Green Gathering, Lamberts Hill Farm Shepton Mallet |
| July 28-29 |
St Helens, Free Festival noon-lOpm |
| July 29-31 |
Cambridge Folk Festival. Cherry Hinton Hall Grounds.Cambridge |
| July 29-31 |
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| July 30 |
Saltley Free Festival, Adderley Park, Birmingham. 2-10.30pm. |
| July 30 |
Free Festival Tottenham Road Recreation site London |
| Aug 1 |
Cantlin Stone Free Festival, Clun Forest, nr Bishop’s Castle and Newton |
| Aug 2 |
Swindon, Groundwell Farm Festival. 2-lOpm |
| Aug 5-7 |
Fine Farye, Manor Farm, Caldecote, nr Cambridge |
| Aug 6 |
Peterborough Free Festival noon-11.30pm. |
| Au4 6 |
Free open-air concert, Uxbridge Brunel University |
| Aug 6 |
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| Aug 6 |
Vines Cross Festival, nr Heathfield, East Sussex. |
| Aug 7 |
Nuneaton Free Community Festival, |
| Aug 7 |
Clissold Park Free Festival, Stoke Newington, London. |
| Aug 12-13 |
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| Aug 13 |
Triangle 83 Festival, Ransoms Rec. Hitchin, |
| Aug 16-31 |
Cornwall Free Festival. The Old Airfield, Rough Tor,Camelford,Bodmin Moor. |
| Aug 20 |
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| Aug 20-21 |
Pear Tree Music Festival, Halstock Leigh , nr Yeovil Somerset |
| Aug 25-31 |
Cisbury R1ng Free Festival. Nr Worthing Sussex |
| Aug 26-28 |
Nospop 83,- Nostell Priory Wakefield Yorkshire . |
| Aug 26-28 |
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| Aug 26-2 |
Summer Dream, Fair, Yew Tree Farm , Lyng Norfolk |
| Aug 27 |
Barry Manilow at Blenheim Palace Woodstock, Oxford |
| Aug 27 |
Youth Music Festival , Boating Lake , Corby. lOam-11pm . |
| Aug 28-29 |
Nottingham Carnival, London |
| Aug 29 |
Gary Glitter Roundhay Park , Leeds~ 3pm evening . |
| Aug 30 |
Penwith 83, nr St.lves, Cornwall 10am-10pm .(commercial) |
| Sept 9-11 |
Otmoor Fair , Moorlands Farm Murcott . nr Oxfor |
| Sept 9-11 |
Leeds Folk Festival, Temple Newsam Park, Leeds. |
| Sept 10 |
Smokey Bears Picnic Hexthorpe Flats Doncaster |
| Sept. |
Psilocybin Free Festival, nr Hay-on-Wye |
Taken from the FWS report 1983 .
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