Sunrise Celebration
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Sunrise Celebration is an ethical living and music festival
that takes place in Bruton
Somerset
, England on an organic farm. It first started in 2006 over the summer solstice
as an alternative celebration to the Glastonbury Festival
that was cancelled that year. It was originally called the Sunrise Summer Solstice Celebration, but dropped 'summer solstice' from the title and the event's date moved to late May to avoid clashing with Glastonbury.
The original concept was created by Daniel Hurring and Sun Bird in 2005 and the Company Family Gathering was formed.
Despite two successful events in 2006 and 2007 (boasting 5,000 - 6,000 attendees each year), the Company lost £250,000 in these formative two years and sadly folded as a result.
The festival includes six stages and acoustic and performance venues, including The Main Arena and EartHeart Stage; Small World; Tribal Earth World Music Stage; ID Spiral Solar Chill; Spirit Dance. It includes a mix of alternative culture
, and is committed to sustainability with an eclectic blend of dub, world, ska, electronica, dub-step, psy trance, breaks, reggae, folk and Balkan beats. The festival has a site-wide organic policy including alcohol and is the United Kingdom's leading sustainable festival.
The Festival site in 2006-2008 was Bearley Farm, Bearley, approx. 8 miles north of Yeovil.
In 2008 the festival was cancelled due to extensive flash-flooding after a freak localised storm, although managed to run a smaller version of the festival later in the year as a sub-section of The Big Chill
.
As a result of the flooding and financial losses, Sunrise was re-born in 2009 on the current site near Bruton, on organic farmland, considerably higher above sea level than the previous site...
It saw its first financially stable year in 2009, and is set to continue in the future under the management of Natural Communities Community Interest Company.
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...
that takes place in Bruton
Bruton
Bruton is a town and civil parish in Somerset, England, situated on the River Brue seven miles south-east of Shepton Mallet, just south of Snakelake Hill and Coombe Hill, ten miles north-west of Gillingham and twelve miles south-west of Frome in the South Somerset district. The town has a...
Somerset
Somerset
The ceremonial and non-metropolitan county of Somerset in South West England borders Bristol and Gloucestershire to the north, Wiltshire to the east, Dorset to the south-east, and Devon to the south-west. It is partly bounded to the north and west by the Bristol Channel and the estuary of the...
, England on an organic farm. It first started in 2006 over the summer solstice
Summer solstice
The summer solstice occurs exactly when the axial tilt of a planet's semi-axis in a given hemisphere is most inclined towards the star that it orbits. Earth's maximum axial tilt to our star, the Sun, during a solstice is 23° 26'. Though the summer solstice is an instant in time, the term is also...
as an alternative celebration to the Glastonbury Festival
Glastonbury Festival
The Glastonbury Festival of Contemporary Performing Arts, commonly abbreviated to Glastonbury or even Glasto, is a performing arts festival that takes place near Pilton, Somerset, England, best known for its contemporary music, but also for dance, comedy, theatre, circus, cabaret and other arts.The...
that was cancelled that year. It was originally called the Sunrise Summer Solstice Celebration, but dropped 'summer solstice' from the title and the event's date moved to late May to avoid clashing with Glastonbury.
The original concept was created by Daniel Hurring and Sun Bird in 2005 and the Company Family Gathering was formed.
Despite two successful events in 2006 and 2007 (boasting 5,000 - 6,000 attendees each year), the Company lost £250,000 in these formative two years and sadly folded as a result.
The festival includes six stages and acoustic and performance venues, including The Main Arena and EartHeart Stage; Small World; Tribal Earth World Music Stage; ID Spiral Solar Chill; Spirit Dance. It includes a mix of alternative culture
Alternative culture
Alternative culture is a type of culture that exists outside or on the fringes of mainstream or popular culture, usually under the domain of one or more subcultures...
, and is committed to sustainability with an eclectic blend of dub, world, ska, electronica, dub-step, psy trance, breaks, reggae, folk and Balkan beats. The festival has a site-wide organic policy including alcohol and is the United Kingdom's leading sustainable festival.
The Festival site in 2006-2008 was Bearley Farm, Bearley, approx. 8 miles north of Yeovil.
In 2008 the festival was cancelled due to extensive flash-flooding after a freak localised storm, although managed to run a smaller version of the festival later in the year as a sub-section of The Big Chill
The Big Chill (music festival)
The Big Chill is an annual festival of alternative, dance and chill-out music and comedy, held in the grounds of Eastnor Castle during early August...
.
As a result of the flooding and financial losses, Sunrise was re-born in 2009 on the current site near Bruton, on organic farmland, considerably higher above sea level than the previous site...
It saw its first financially stable year in 2009, and is set to continue in the future under the management of Natural Communities Community Interest Company.