{"id":644938,"date":"2026-06-18T08:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644938\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T08:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T08:08:09","slug":"linton-festival-to-go-out-with-a-bang-after-25-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/644938\/","title":{"rendered":"Linton Festival to ‘go out with a bang’ after 25 years"},"content":{"rendered":"

A music and beer festival, that’s seen the likes of Ruby Turner, Suzi Quatro and Peter Green from Fleetwood Mac perform in a pub garden, is to take place for the final time this weekend.<\/p>\n

The Linton Festival, external<\/a> in Herefordshire started in 2001, when a group of pub-goers from The Alma Inn figured out it was cheaper to pay a band to come and perform in the garden, than it was for all of them to travel to Dorset for a gig.<\/p>\n

With a natural amphitheatre behind the pub and huge dedication from the community, the festival became an annual event, growing in size and reputation.<\/p>\n

It has also seen more than \u00a3150,000 raised for local charities but organisers admitted it has become “a lot harder”.<\/p>\n

Now, on it’s 25th anniversary, those behind it say the festival – and they – need a rest.<\/p>\n

“We’ve had a good run, we’ve done some really good things things, we’ve had a lot of fun along the way, but it’s time for people involved now to go and explore different opportunities,” said marketing lead, Zoe Davis.<\/p>\n

“It’s completely volunteer run… putting on events like this, they don’t just happen overnight.”<\/p>\n

Some of the charities that have benefited over the years include Herefordshire Mind, the West Midlands Air Ambulance and Parkinson’s UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A music and beer festival, that’s seen the likes of Ruby Turner, Suzi Quatro and Peter Green from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":644939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-644938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=644938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/644938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/644939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=644938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=644938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=644938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}