6:20pm Friday 10th July 2009
By Lauren Rogers
MUSIC festival legend Michael Lang is to open the Big Chill Festival in the shadow of the Malvern Hills.
The annual open-air event, which last year attracted more than 38,000 people to Eastnor Castle’s Deer Park, near Ledbury, is less than four weeks away and it has just been announced that Lang, who founded the famous Woodstock Festival in 1969, will cut the ribbon on this year’s Big Chill.
He will also be appearing at the Words in Motion tent, giving festival-goers a chance to ask questions about how he established the world’s most famous music gathering.
Big Chill co-founder Katrina Larkin said: “Woodstock is seen as the perfect celebration of the 60s peace and love movement. It’s an ideal which the founders of the Big Chill hold dear and which has helped define the ethos of the Big Chill for these past 15 years.
“It is yet to be seen if the skinny dipping that was so prevalent in the Filippini Pond in 69 will happen in the Eastnor pond this year.
“If it does then it is likely that Michael Lang will be the one leading the charge.”
Tickets for the summer festival, which runs from Friday to Sunday, August 6-8, are still on sale priced £145 for adults, £65 for teenagers and £65 for a Sunday-only ticket.
Highlights of the festival include a set by electronic music pioneers Orbital, live stand up comedy from Dylan Moran, filming of a zombie movie – with a chance for members of the public to be involved, an arts trail and a unique project by celebrated photographer Rankin.
For full line-up and information on how to buy tickets visit bigchill.net. The site also has details on ticket discounts for people with certain Herefordshire and Worcestershire postcodes.
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