About Beautiful Days Festival 2024
Beautiful Days is the Levellers’ family music festival organised by DMF Music which takes place at Escot Park in Devon and has been running for over 20 years. The festival has 7 stages, amazing site art, a huge children’s area, comedy, theatre, family camping, licensed real ale bars from Otter Brewery & a great choice of food and craft stalls. Beautiful Days has no sponsorship, branding and does not advertise.
Beautiful Days won the Grass Roots Festival Award at the 2015 UK Festival Awards and Best Medium Festival in the FestivalKidz.com 2015 Awards. The festival was also shortlisted for Best Medium Sized Festival at the 2016 UK Festival Awards.
“The festival organisers have had fifteen years to get it right, but in reality they have been getting it right since year one………the next one can’t roll around soon enough.” Efestivals.co.uk 2017
“It really is a perfect festival for families” FestivalKidz.com 2017
Music genres: Folk, Indie, Indie Pop
Beautiful Days Festival information & FAQs
Beautiful Days Festival is located in Escot Park in Ottery Saint Mary
Redwoods Camping is designated for family camping. It is the first camping field on your right as you come over the bridge out of the arenas. Depending on where you park, the campsites are between 5 and 15 mins walk from the car parks. Beautiful Days is a family festival though so all of the camping fields have families camped in them.
Beautiful Days provides facilities and support for those wishing to attend who have accessibility requirements. All information regarding Access at Beautiful Days will be updated soon for 2024
Beautiful Days Festival is Friday 16 - Sunday 18 August, 2024
You can hire a BELL TENT, TIPI or YURT – they are available to book once tickets are on sale. We team up with Brook Bell Tents (Bell Tents), Hearthworks (Yurts) and Wigwamsam (Tipis) to exclusively offer accommodation for hire in ‘The Garden’. The Yurts are available to hire in two different campsites – Medium Yurts (4-6 people) in The Garden and Duo/Small Yurts (1-3 people) in Arena Camping.
Yes, there are showers across site. They are cleaned throughout the day. These are marked clearly by signs and on the site map in the festival programme. We have free drinking water from taps all over site and multiple specific Drinking Water Stations which will be marked on the site map.
Festival address:
Escot Park,
Nr Fairmile,
Devon,
EX11 1LU
BY CAR
Escot is just off the A30, between Exeter and Honiton. Exit the A30 at Daisymount (eastbound) and at Iron Bridge (westbound). Please follow AA signs for the Blue Route to get to the festival site. Don’t follow your sat nav – follow the AA signs! Your routing sticker (car routing/parking pass or campervan pass) will help us to guide you on to the site and parked. There is ample parking on site, please try and car share to avoid traffic and congestion. If you are being dropped off please follow signs for the RED ROUTE. If you are planning to travel to the festival in a car or campervan then please buy a vehicle pass in advance – it will make your entry to the festival quicker and easier. If passes are available on the gate they will cost more. Please note: Beautiful Days cannot accommodate caravans. Please do not park off the festival site. Vehicles parked illegally will be towed.
PARKING & WRISTBANDS
Cars will be parked in the car parks and then you will walk to one of two Pedestrian Gates (whichever is closer to you, they will be clearly signed) where you will exchange your tickets for wristbands. You will then go through the Pedestrian Gates and into the campsites. If you are in a Campervan then you will exchange your tickets for wristbands as you enter the Campervan fields.
CAR SHARE
Save money, save the planet and meet new people at the same time. We’ve teamed up with LIFTSHARE.COM to make sharing transport to Beautiful Days a lot easier. By car sharing you can save on travelling costs, reduce cO2 emissions and cut congestion.
BY BUS
Stagecoach operate in this area.
BY TRAIN
Call the 24hr National Rail Enquiries Line on 08457 48 49 50 for rail information and booking. Festival buses will run from Exeter to Escot, see bus information for times and details. The nearest train station to Escot is Feniton. The festival runs a FREE SHUTTLE BUS service from Feniton station on the Thursday (2pm – 8pm) and Friday (9am – 1pm). Please look out for the bus which will be clearly marked to get a lift to the festival site’s red pedestrian gate rather than walking from the station.
BY AIR
Exeter International Airport is situated off the A30, 5 miles from Exeter towards Escot Park. There are no buses from the Airport to the festival but a taxi from the airport will take about 10-15 minutes. You can fly to Exeter Airport from places including Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow and various European airports. For details of flights, go to www.flybe.com
Try our fully interactive map of all nearby hotels and accommodation. Please check location and dates before booking.
The Levellers began the festival at Escot Park way back in the summer of 2003, and its recognition and popularity continues to increase with every passing year. Beautiful Days is really quite different when it comes to Festivals. Conceived, devised and organized by Indie legends The Levellers; Beautiful Days does not advertise or accept corporate sponsorship, in order to retain its undiluted loyalty to how festivals should be. The band have looked to get the right element of cultural exchange, get the ‘weirdness’ back into festivals, and create something that just doesn’t exist anywhere else in the country.
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