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Over the many years that Towersey Festival has been enjoyed by thousands of customers, the names we give to venues has changed many times.  It all started with The Pub Barn, The Village Hall, The Crossroads, The Church, and gradually progressed to marquees of varying sizes.  Longstanding customers will remember the first time we put up a marquee in a second field we called it The Arts Centre, because it had a variety of different uses- music, dance theatre etc.  In more recent years that became dancing only in a venue we called Festival Dance House.  Now one or two things are changing again, the Festival continues to expand its programme and style, though not its number of visitors, we intend to retain that small, friendly, family Festival feel.In 2010 we introduced a small chill out space on Campsite 2 called The Den.  For Shooting Roots to hold their busy areas of activity, we created The Hive.  The Village Hall, The Church, the Pub Barn, all remain in place and on The Showground in recent years, The Market Square, The Rope Circle, The Children’s Centre. For 2012, we are making a small change to the way The Concert Tent is laid out, turning it through quarter of an hour in its orientation and creating more of a big club style of venue so that more people are nearer to the stage.  We shall call it The Big Club. On the Showground, Bev and Ray Langton, who have been programming our Children’s Festival now for many years, are expanding into families attending the Showground with a new venue called Rainbow.  On Site 2, Festival Dance House, is far more than that, almost back to its Arts Centre use, with the Spoken Word, concerts, film, and indeed the many dance styles.  We’d like to call it Venue 65.  The Festival started in 1965 and we often want to look back to our roots to remind us why we’re all here.So if you’ve been with us for many years, you might still use some of the old titles, and gradually change.  If you’re new to Towersey, welcome, and welcome to the new website, a few new names and a great Festival, steeped in tradition, with its eye on the future and a wide variety of music, theatre and art forms for the future.