Top music festivals for foodies

Wilderness

One of the hottest food events of the year, Wilderness festival in Oxfordshire combines the off-beat fun of the modern British music festival (woodland walks, feasts around the campfire, wild swimming, and, of course, a top-notch music line-up) with seriously good food.

Join Olia Hercules, Patrick Williams or Ben Quinn for a long table banquet where you can enjoy fine wines and bespoke menus. Visit the Wilderness Kitchen for vegan and vegetarian feasting and sign up for the now notorious Blooddhot Supperclub for a deliciously hedonistic way to wind up the weekend.

3-6 August, Cornbury Park, Oxfordshire; wildernessfestival.com

Valley Fest

A true celebration of all things South West, Valley Fest (from the team behind Yeo Valley) brings together DJs, farmers and local producers. Soul II Soul, Bananarama and The Kooks will provide the tunes, while the region’s culinary heroes will be cooking up a feast. Josh Eggleton of Pony and Trap and Peter Sanchez-Iglesias will be serving a feast using produce grown on the farm.

Arcadia, the performance-art collective, possibly best known for their giant spider at Glastonbury, will pair with The Woodland Tribe and festival goers to live build the festival playground of dreams!

3 - 6 August, Chew Valley Lake, Somerset; valleyfest.co.uk

WOMAD

Musicians from around the world will congregate in Wiltshire this July to share and celebrate world music, food and culture. Listen to the likes of Jungle Brothers, Soul II Soul, Bombay Bicycle Club and The Cinematic Orchestra, then head to the Taste The World stage; here, artists rustle up their favourite dishes from their home countries, leave them to cook while they play their gigs then return to let everyone taste the results.

27 – 30 July, Charlton Park, Wilthsire; womad.co.uk

Smoked and Uncut

Celebrating 10 years of Smoked & Uncut the Pig hotels plus the slightly fancier Limewood hotel play host to mini music an food festivals across three afternoons this summer. Each Smoked & Uncut event promises local bands, blankets and hay bales as well as gourmet food stalls, local ciders and ales and the odd glass or two of English sparkling wine. How very civilised.

Get ready for the legendary BBQ with short ribs, venison burgers, corn-on-the cob and more. Chefs James Golding and Angela Hartnett will be cooking al fresco family-style feasts, so save room for hearty curries and plates of pasta, too.

July to August, Hampshire and Kent; smokedanduncut.com

Tunes in the Park

This celebration of words, music, imagination, ideas, nature, food, fashion, flowers, laughter, exploration and fun (try and tick them all off during its four-day line-up) is set in the grounds of Port Eliot House, a stately home in the far east of Cornwall.

Like the rest of the event, food talks here have a literary and ideas-driven focus. More a place to question your own approach to – and relationship with – food than to pick up cooking tips (though there will be plenty of those too).

25 – 27 August, Tunes in the Park, Port Eliot, Cornwall; tunesinthepark.com

Camp Bestival

The Dorset outpost of the Isle of Wight festival has a lot to offer foodies in its Feast Collective food and drink section. Highlights include demonstrations from DJ BBQ, local producers setting up stall at Dorset Farmers’ Market and street-food from Cajun Rainbow, Gyoza Guys and Mr Noodle.

The Feast Collective Bar will keep your thirst at bay with beers from Cornwall’s Sharp’s Brewery and Thatchers cider.

27 – 30 July, Lulworth Castle, Dorset; campbestival.net

Green Man

The spectacular Brecon Beacons provide an idyllic backdrop for this boho music festival with a great foodie offering. Be sure to book your seat at the Black Mountain Banquet, an unmissable farm-to-table feast from Powys-raised chef Danny Jack and Eco-Chef Tom Hunt.

You can also stop off at, festival-within-a-festival, The Courtyard, where over twenty Welsh breweries will be showcasing the best ales, ciders and perries.

17 – 20 August, Brecon Beacons, Wales; greenman.net

The Big Feastival

A star-studded line up sees the likes of Rick Astley and Blossoms sharing the spotlight with Nathan Outlaw and Asma Khan at this Cotswolds festival that caters as well for music lovers as it does for food lovers.

Well-loved street food trucks will be there to offer sustenance after dancing the night away – festival favourite Anna Mae's Mac n Cheese will be rolling up with their hearty fare with a long like of stellar street food options following close behind. El Pollote, Only Jerkin, Mexican Seoul, KOLKATI, Pasture, Gaucho... make sure you come hungry!

25 – 27 August, Kingham, Oxfordshire; thebigfeastival.com