FAIRPORT’S CROPREDY CONVENTION

DARYL EASLEA

VENUE CROPREDY, OXFORDSHIRE DATE 08/08/2024-10/08/2024 Miserable? Low? Struggling to cope with today’s unremitting deluge of despondency? Then take a trip to Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, where the clock seems always set to 1958, in the very best way. It’s a world where strangers are friends not yet met and the unpretentious joy of live music, the love of ale and enormous Oggie pasties is enough to bond 20,000 aunts and uncles, many of them sitting in an amassed crescent of camping chairs. The benevolent stewardship of Cropredy guarantees that this is a safe space where manners, kindness and kinship is key. Fairport co-founder Simon Nicol asks for people to approach the bill with “an open mind and an open heart”. And, sadly, for the first day, an open brolly. After a fortnight of…

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