Have faith folks we’re getting the Trystonbury crew together for easter and we’ll be updating this site & Facebook with the plans for 2012′s event. In the meantime we’ve put the fab pics from last year by our official photographer Philippa www.newlandportraits.com/. on the gallery page.
The Trystonbury crew will be out on festival manouvres at Sunrise & Shamabala Festivals this summer. Great festivals both of them and we’d love to meet some of you again at them.
Thanks to all who came and the sun who shone and made it a balmy and beautiful weekend for us all. Here are just some of the comments we received about this years event. For lots more pics and review see our Facebook page.
Words can’t really convey.. although Something Good certainly happened! Sterling organising effort, thank you. Big up the crew.. and the punters, trees, sunshine, DJ’s, tents, trucks, fires and friends. See you all next year x
we had the most amazing weekend, dont think putting it in to words would do it justice to how great it really was. a big thank you to all those who made it possible xx
Directions to ticket holders have been emailed today. Site is open to ticket holders from 1pm on Friday afternoon. No admittance before then. Contact us through Facebook or via Twitter. You can also see pics of the progress throughout the week.
You are invited to Trystonbury. The 2011 dates are Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th September. The site will be open from 1pm on Friday afternoon and there will be entertainment from Friday evening at 6pm continuing through Saturday and Sunday.
The artists & performers programme to date has been published and will continue to be updated throughout the summer months leading up to the event, keep checking back!
Sales will be limited to 300, priced at £30 and are available using the Buy Tickets link above. The ticket money is a small subsidy to make Something Good Happen this year.
We welcome contributions from musicians, artists, entertainers and helpers of all kinds, please get in touch if you would like to be involved. Trystonbury is a not for profit event; we rely on our volunteers (all crew from tents to teas) to give their time and to work their magic and we support a number of good causes.
–noun An appointment to meet at a certain date and time, especially one made somewhat secretly by lovers
late 14c., from O.Fr. tristre ”appointed station in hunting,” possibly from a Scand. source (cf. O.N. treysta ”to trust;” see trust)
Examples
His bird ambassadors go first astray and notify Hina, but finally the tryst is arranged, the bridal cortege arrives in state, and the bridal takes place.
—The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai
Y: Moses said: “Your tryst is the Day of the Festival, and let the people be assembled when the sun is well up.”
—Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Quran) side by side
They stay late together, and the evidence of their tryst is there in the morning.
—craigdailypress.com stories
The series of Free festivals held at Windsor Great Park between the years 1972 and 1974 were significant for a number of reasons . They were the first lengthy UK free festivals that were reasonably well organised and which were held consecutively in one site. See this article for more detail. http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/windsor-menu.html
Trystonbury is located in part of the old Windsor Forest, a famous hunting park that has its own legend of a mysterious antler-headed rider and his baying hunting hounds.
Will Herne make a special guest appearance at Trystonbury 2011
The site also has many other links to historical and legendary times. We will keep adding em on here as we approach the festival. Hopefully they will get the creative juices flowing for ideas for fancy dress costumes or accessories for this years festival.
On previous years revelers have spoken of glowing ‘Will of the wisp’ orbs floating amongst the trees. Spooky. The site itself is certainly a presence at the festival.
The site of Trystonbury oozes history, faded grandeur, a lost world, echoes of the wild wood and legends of the past. Its not surprising the site has been used in film. Here is a clip of the TV adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland” filmed in front of the ruined mansion and the ancient Beech tree. It features Robbie Coltrane as Tweedle Dee or is he Tweedle Dum? The Alice link to the site is apt also this year as we welcome some of the Rabbit Hole crew from Glastonbury who we have worked with at Glastonbury in 2009/10.
Sales will be limited to 300, priced at £30 and are available using the 
We welcome contributions from musicians, artists, entertainers and helpers of all kinds, please 
