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Top of the Gorge Festival Are Not Responsible for Any Change in the Schedule of Events Brought About by Independent Acts and Suppliers Speakers and entertainment 7pm Time & Tide Taletellers Fireside stories Music 8pm Space Detectives Stargazing Top of the Friday 22 June 8pm Kid Conventional Singer/songwriter Live bands are playing across the weekend in the National Trust 4pm Festival begins DJ Dan DT 9.15pm Crinkle Cuts 7-piece funk/reggae/ Outdoor Amphitheatre, including: 6pm Russ Smith & Dave Cornthwaite Welcome to Top of the Gorge latin/ska band Gorge festival 6.30pm Sian Lewis This Girl Outdoors Sunday 24 June Why We Love Alt-pop, indie-rock Crinkle Cuts A seven-piece 6.30pm Craft Invaders Campfire cooking 9am Christie June Yoga Yoga & running stretches four-piece from the South West, Bristol-based band that combines Cheddar, Somerset 7.15pm Ben Smith 401 Challenge 401 marathons in 401 days 9.30am Adrian Boots Food foraging walk & talk who have played sold-out gigs with funk, reggae, Latin and ska to 7.15pm Time & Tide Taletellers Fireside stories 10am Running races start See the runners off Wolf Alice, Slow Club, Teleman & produce a high-energy sound. Wave Pictures. Saturday evening 8pm Why We Love Indie rock 4-piece 10am Craft Invaders Campfire cooking Friday night 10.30am Richard Matthews local adventurer 8.15pm Space Detectives Stargazing Sam Green & the Midnight Heist The Frukes Ukulele band from 11am Craft Invaders Campfire craft 9pm Sam Green & the Midnight Heist Surf roots & rock from the Surf roots and rock from the Frome, performing covers like North Atlantic coast 11:30am Nick Hanks Cheddar Gorge North Atlantic Devon coast. you’ve never heard them before. 11:30am The Frukes Ukulele band Friday night Sunday afternoon Saturday 23 June 12 noon Potty Adventures (David Mellor) Getting outdoors with kids 9am Christie June Yoga Yoga & MTB stretches 12.30pm Adrian Boots Food foraging walk & talk The Drystones Highly acclaimed Windslide Exeter-based pioneers 9.30am Craft Invaders Campfire cooking 1pm Windslide Bluesy slide guitar, didge folk duo from Priddy, recently of ‘Americano didgryBlues’, where 10am Mountain bikes start See the bikers off & Americano shortlisted for the BBC’s Young bluesy slide guitar riffs meet 10.30am Potty Adventures (David Mellor) Getting outdoors with kids 1pm David Love Survival skills Folk award. Saturday afternoon Australian didgeridoo and Cajon 11:30am David Love What is Adventure? 1.30pm Elise Downing Running around Britain box drumming. Sunday afternoon 12.30pm Time & Tide Taletellers Wild story writing 2pm The Frukes All afternoon ukulele lessons Kid Conventional AKA Jack Weston, 12.30pm Matthew Dieumegard-Thornton Big Mountain Adventures 2.30pm Damian Hall Running, life, the universe an award-winning singer/songwriter. Saturday evening 1pm Christie June Yoga Yoga & running stretches & everything Friday 22 – Sunday 24 June 2018 1pm Omnium starts Cheer runners on 3.30pm Anna McNuff Q&A Women in adventure Come with a 1.30pm Mel Nicholls Beyond Barriers 3.30pm DJ Dan DT Alfresco tunes crew and get a A weekend of outdoor adventure & entertainment. 2pm David Love Survival skills Food & drink Taking place near Cheddar, on a spectacular pop-up 2pm DJ Dan DT Alfresco tunes Location key % site in the Mendip Hills, with views through the jaws 2.30pm Dwayne Fields Journey to be Different AONB Adventure Tipi A wide selection of top-quality locally 10 of the gorge to the Somerset coast. Camper and day 3.15pm Madeleine Cope Big Wall Climbing National Trust Outdoor Amphitheatre produced food and drink is available all discount visitors welcome – free parking on site. on festival tickets, 3.30pm Craft Invaders Campfire craft Fire Pit, Story Circle and Slow Zone weekend in the pop-up festival village. use the code Trail running & biking challenges | climbing & caving 4pm The Drystones Highly acclaimed folk duo Enjoy organic wine and craft ales, ciders GroupSave 5.15pm OS Champs Q&A #GetOutside and spirits, to dairy delights, wood-fired when booking kayaking & SUP | family friendly & small-group 5.15pm Christie June Yoga Yoga & running stretches pizza and internationally influenced outdoor adventures | inspirational speakers & live music 5.30pm Enduro Omnium starts Cheer runners on streetfood, and home- and farm-made fare stargazing & food foraging | fine food & drink 6pm Anna McNuff Small Steps, Big Adventures including gourmet burgers and sausages. walks & talks 6.15pm Craft Invaders Campfire cooking Vegetarians, vegans and people with special 7pm Dave Cornthwaite Expedition1000 dietary requirements are well catered for. Tickets on sale now nationaltrust.org.uk/topofthegorge somersetoutdoorNT #TotG Caving Wild food foraging Explore a series of realistic Learn how to forage for your Sporting challenges and guided activities Top speakers in the AONB Adventure Tipi Free activities 30-metre-long tunnels, and supper with local wild food expert discover four exciting activity Adrian Boots (Sunday only). These will happen all weekend. Participation in these pursuits Entry to all talks is free for festival goers and there’s a huge chambers within the mobile Across the weekend there are is not included in your festival ticket. Pre-book online to avoid line-up of talent at this year’s Top of the Gorge, including this lot. 20+ top activities to explore, caving unit. Campfire cooking disappointment. Entry on the day is possible if space remains. all free for festival goers. Bake bread and make smores on an Whether you’re camping or Mountain bike skills open fire with the Craft Invaders. Dave Cornthwaite Dwayne Fields visiting for the day, don’t Fine-tune your MTB technique Trail running Rock climbing A record-breaking Jamaica-born Dwayne leave without ticking these with British Cycling-qualified 50 things The Cheddar Gorge Challenge Scale the famous crags of Cheddar adventurer who escaped street gangs experiences off your list. instructors from Forest Trail Whether you’re approaching 11¾ running routes explore the trails Gorge, where there are climbing has skated, swum, and violence in inner-city (tutoring U16s) and Trail Unknown, or nudging 46½, tick off a batch that surround the gorge and wend routes on real rock for everyone SUPed, sailed, paddled and London by embracing a series of who’ll be taking adult riders of the National Trust’s famous 50 through the Mendip Hills. Saturday from total beginners to complete pedalled over 22,000 miles outdoor challenges that saw him Climbing around a skills course. things list, such as building a bivvy, 23 June sees competitors take on crushers. Cheddar Gorge are during his groundbreaking become the first black Briton to Scale the four-route festival rolling down a hill or flying a kite. the Omnium (combination event offering 25% discount to all Top of Expedition1000 project. walk to the magnetic North Pole. Stargazing climbing wall and check out the involving a sprint, hill climb, a middle the Gorge festival goers. Meet Dave on Friday & Saturday Meet Dwayne on Saturday amazing view through the gorge Go on a stellar tour of the night Bush craft distance & endurance run) while from the top. sky with the Space Detectives, Fashion a bracelet or a flower races on Sunday 24 June include Caving Anna McNuff Madeleine Cope a team of astronomers led by crown from natural materials and 3km, 6km, 10km, half-marathon and Explore the Mendips’ mysterious Former GB rower One of the UK’s Guided walks Mission One Education Team celebrate the Solstice in style. marathon-distance routes. underworld with guided trips Anna is now a full-time leading rock climbers, Explore the gorge and nearby member Jo Richardson. through the subterranean tunnels adventure athlete and Madeleine is sponsored Ukulele nature reserves with walking and Mountain biking and chambers of Cheddar Caves. the Girlguides’ UK Ambassador. by Mammut and over the last Master the dark art of uke wildlife experts from Cheddar Barefoot walking The Mendip Murmuration Cheddar Gorge are offering 25% She has cycled 11,000 miles across year has built a solid rep as a Big strumming with members of the Walking, Mendip Hills AONB and Shed your shoes and introduce mixed-terrain sportive sends riders discount to all festival goers. the US, bikepacked through the Wall climber, having done several fabulous Frukes (Sunday only). the Somerset Wildlife Trust. your toes and heels to the feel of around Cheddar’s hills and lanes, Andes, run New Zealand’s 3,057km routes on El Cap in Yosemite. the terrain below, with barefoot- along the sensational singletrack Stand-up paddleboarding Te Araroa trail, and legged it along Meet Madeleine on Sunday Yoga walking guru Julie. Dry stone walling that spiders across Black Down Learn how to stand-up for yourself Learn how to mend an ancient England’s Jurassic Coast dressed Join our resident yogi Christie for and flows into Rowberrow Warren. during small-group SUP sessions, as a dinosaur. Matthew Axe throwing stone wall the traditional way. taking place on Cheddar Reservoir, a a session of muscle stretching and The main course is 32km (20 Meet Anna on Saturday & Sunday Dieumegard-Thornton mental recalibrating. Learn how to toss a tomahawk. miles), but an optional extra loop short drive from the festival site (own Family adventure sessions Part of the youngest will take more adventurous riders transport required). Sessions cost £15 Join David Mellor – AKA Potty Ben Smith expedition to summit Orienteering Slacklining along an additional 16km (10 miles) per person and last 1 hour 15 minutes. Adventures – for informative – the 401 Challenge Everest, Matthew is now pursuing Learn how to read a map and use a Walk the wobbly line, with some of cracking terrain that loops the and fun seminars about getting While completing 401 his #RidingGiants project, compass properly with the Ordnance instruction from the experts. lovely Crook Peak and traces more Kayaking outdoors with young children. marathons in 401 days, climbing 8,000-metre mountains Survey #GetOutside Champions.
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