Wood, one of the UK’s most intimate family festivals and now in its 18th year, takes place on the 15th-17th May 2025 at Braziers Park, near Wallingford, Oxfordshire, in the beautiful setting of the Chilterns National Landscape. The festival is organised by the family-run team at Wood HQ. A previous winner of awards from everyone from Festival Kidz to The Oldie, and a multiple Greener Festival award winner, Wood was recently awarded “Best Family Festival 2025 – Oxfordshire” by the Southern Enterprise Awards.
The festival site slopes down in a natural amphitheatre towards the famous solar-powered Wood stage, a purpose-built green oak structure with a living roof. With many more names to follow in 2026, the first acts to be announced to play the Wood stage at next year’s festival are: Morganway, who, since appearing at Wood 2019, have earned a reputation as one of the UK’s most exciting live acts – their cross-pollinating sound continues to thrive on the festival circuit. Noble Jacks, who, with the fiddle leading the charge, deliver high-energy foot-stompin’ rhythms that have captivated audiences across the UK and beyond. “Noble Jacks build their unique British sensibility on a foundation of bluegrass and roots, creating a sound all their own” – Baylen Leonard, Absolute Radio.
Singer in top-10 charting, Mercury-nominated band I Am Kloot from 1999 to 2014, John Bramwell now performs as a solo artist, criss-crossing the length and breadth of the UK. Bramwell’s razor-sharp wit, refreshingly true [and often hilarious] observations and instantly recognisable haunting vocal are channelled through some of the most honest and direct songwriting of our times. Amelia Coburn has a knack for making the unusual sound timeless, and her Bill Ryder-Jones-produced debut album has gained her a cult following. Amelia’s honest, occasionally hilarious and quintessentially north-eastern persona disarms and beguiles in equal measure: this is art without artifice.
Best known as one half of US duo The Milk Carton Kids, Kenneth Pattengale returns to the stage solo for the first time in sixteen years. A distinctive guitarist, singer, and producer, he has spent the past decade and a half refining a musical language defined by precision, restraint, and emotional clarity. Nick Cope is a Wood festival institution; “there’s no better sight than the main arena standing room only with ‘kids’ aged 0-75 years on a Sunday morning (even the teenagers!)”. Nick has a way of reaching into people’s hearts with his songs of the everyday, igniting children’s imagination in an organic, unpatronizing, educational and fun way.
Over 50% of Batch 1 tickets are sold already – so now’s a good time to buy tickets! The cheapest way to attend is the bus/bike ticket, if travelling by one of those methods. Payment plans are available, spread over 3 months. Tickets are available now from here.
There will be many more artists to follow in early 2026, and as always, a full programme of free workshops for all ages, talks and discussion in Kindling, late-night films, kids’ tent activities, delicious food and drink, and a dedicated teen area featuring a pedal-powered silent disco.
