Rick Wakeman, Trevor Horn, Focus and Big Big Train announced for 45th annual Cropredy Festival

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Rick Wakeman, Trevor Horn, Focus and Big Big Train are amiong the prog names who have been announced for next year's Cropredy Festival, along side the ever-present host band Fairport Convention.

Now celebrating its forty-fifth year, Corpredy 2024 will take place at at Cropredy near Banbury on Thursday 8, Friday 9 and Saturday 10 August 2024.

Wakeman, Horn and Fairport Convention will headline the three-day event, which also will see appearances from DeWolff, Kathryn Tickell and The Darkening, Eddi Reader, Baskery, Black Water County, Elles Bailey, Richard Digance, Feast of Fiddles, Ranagri, Spooky Mens Chorale and SilverBlues.

Three-day Cropredy tickets go on sale from this morning. The first 1,000 ticket orders will get a Christmas card signed by Fairport Convention and the first 2,000 get a souvenir car sticker.

Tier One adult tickets start at £165; Youth tickets (12-17yo) are priced at £85 and under-12s are free.

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Writer and broadcaster Jerry Ewing is the Editor of Prog Magazine which he founded for Future Publishing in 2009. He grew up in Sydney and began his writing career in London for Metal Forces magazine in 1989. He has since written for Metal Hammer, Maxim, Vox, Stuff and Bizarre magazines, among others. He created and edited Classic Rock Magazine for Dennis Publishing in 1998 and is the author of a variety of books on both music and sport, including Wonderous Stories; A Journey Through The Landscape Of Progressive Rock.