Get ready to rock - at 51-band four-day festival

The festival – from September 3-6 – covers a broad range of classic rock styles ranging from hard rock, AOR, blues-rock, traditional blues, progressive and jazz fusion, including some of the legends of the musical world.

Saturday sees Focus headline, the band that brought you Hocus Pocus and still the only band to have two instrumental singles in the UK charts at the same time.

AOR heavyweights FM headline on Friday, supported by Corky Laing’s Mountain – Mountain were one of the bands who played the original Woodstock to half a million people!

Sunday is headlined by the pioneers of jazz/rock fusion, Colosseum. You’ll also be able to see bands from all eras from the sixties to the current day and musicians from the USA and Europe as well as around the UK and some from the local area, all sharing three stages fully housed inside large marquees.

NVRF has always wanted to be a bit different to most festivals. It’s run entirely by fans and offers things from a fans perspective – a real-ale bar, luxury (wedding type) toilets and showers because these things matter, and some musical ideas others might shy away from like the mayhem and madness of Papa Shango to the medieval folk/rock of Gryphon, in the grounds of a medieval castle…. As the organisers say, why not?

There are 4-day tickets, 3-day tickets, day tickets and even evening only tickets available but every day is limited to just 1,000 people, again restricted so everyone can see any band they want from a sensible distance not on a screen. Camping, motorhomes, caravans are all possible with free day parking too.

Full details on www.nvrf.rocks and venue at www.grimsthorpe.co.uk