Festival preview: Festinho

by Anna Blightman

Suffolk festival combines the Brazilian with the boutique

"Put together on a rather stylish shoe-string this event manages to pull off a decent line up whilst maintaining that grass roots feel"

 Festinho
 When: Friday 29 August – Sunday 31 August
 Where: Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, Suffolk
 Official site: www.festinho.com
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There’s no denying that the UK festival scene is verging on the saturation point. More and more festivals are cropping up each year and each with their own sterling line up but we just don’t seem to be able to get enough of them. A downside of all these shiny new events, and their largely replica line ups, is that they’ve kind of lost that sense of spirit or ethos that was traditionally the allure of one event over another. The big news this year is the rise of the boutique festival, events that cater for a niche crowd rather than the mass market and with this comes smaller events like Festinho.

Festinho is now in its fourth year. It started as a garden party to raise money for the Action for Brazil’s Children Trust which was set up by Led Zepplin’s Jimmy Page and his then wife Jimena. Named the Mini Chill in its second year; the festival as morphed and grown into the altogether ‘Brazilian-ified’ Festinho. There are very few, if any, festivals out there that can claim to give all their profits to charity. Put together on a rather stylish shoe-string this event manages to pull off a decent line up whilst maintaining that grass roots feel… because they are.

Drawing on their contacts with upcoming artists in the UK and Brazil this year’s line up will appeal to those with a penchant for lesser-known big talent on the dance and electronic scene, but on the whole the early bookings are looking pretty eclectic with appearances from: The Blockheads, DJ Cliffy’s Batmacumba, Faze Action, Lucky Elephant (Sunday Best), The Bays, Hexstatic and James Yuill to name a few.

There are lots of activities and areas for the family and Brazilian workshops in capoeira and samba for the adults, daily BBQs and camp fire sessions and a fancy dress parade, this is a festival with heart.

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