Henley Music Festival to move site in 2014

[Brayman]

Just heard:

Henley Festival to Move Site in 2014

The Henley Festival is delighted to announce a move in 2014 along the river to Greenlands, the beautiful and historic home of Henley Business School. The Festival will continue to take place during the week following the Henley Royal Regatta.

The Festival has struggled to be viable on the existing Regatta site due to the high costs of staging the event in the Stewards Enclosure. The move will help us to realise our ambitions to more fully develop the work of the Henley Festival and the Henley Festival Trust and will also provide greater freedom to programme a wider range of floating stage concerts to include both popular and classical music. The Greenlands site itself is an enclosure of great natural beauty and lends itself perfectly to the presentation of an event as unique and magical as the Henley Festival.

We are confident our supporters will quickly fall in love with our new location, and would like to thank you for your continued support as well as looking forward to seeing you at Festival 2013 and beyond

Seems starnge since they make use of the Regatta erections, and a bit of a bummer for those who have enjoyed mooring on the booms over the years. The number of boats far outnumber those who anchor for the Rewind Festival so the EA will have a job on their hands next year!

 

[Chris_d]

Thats a great shame, will be intersting to see how the EA and organisers cope with it. I suspect there must be a bit of "how do we stop all these boaters listening in for nothing".

 

[byron]

I wonder where they will park all the visitors cars.

 

[Chris_d]

I wonder where they will park all the visitors cars.

Henley management college has some big fields on the other side of the road that they use for events, imagine they will use those.

 

[TrueBlue]

I reckon HRR has become a bit sniffy and pehaps too greedy.

The congregation of boaters was never that large and indeed last time we were there positively welcomed participatioon from those wh moored.

As that revenue stram has dried up, be prepared for a huge hike in mooring rates - don't be cross with SRB, he doasn't set the rate.

 

[rosssavage]

Big shame. We've been going for the last eight yrs, but mainly cos of the boaty atmosphere and the huge congregation of boats on the booms.

We'll go next year to see what it's like, but the biggest draw was the perfect location.

 

[Brayman]

Big shame. We've been going for the last eight yrs, but mainly cos of the boaty atmosphere and the huge congregation of boats on the booms.

We'll go next year to see what it's like, but the biggest draw was the perfect location.

Couldn't agree more, Henley Town will suffer I am sure, as they lose the spectacle, boats doing the evening circuit will surely reduce, it's a long way down to Greenlands in the dark. I wonder if Copas will seize the opportunity and rig up some moorings opposite?

 

[Chris_d]

Couldn't agree more, Henley Town will suffer I am sure, as they lose the spectacle, boats doing the evening circuit will surely reduce, it's a long way down to Greenlands in the dark. I wonder if Copas will seize the opportunity and rig up some moorings opposite?

Surprised Henley Chamber of Commerce or Council hasnt stepped in, Henley town has basicaly lost the event as its now in Hambledon on the other side of the river and unlike the revival much less accessable for Festival goers to the Town for restaurants etc... The proximity to the lock would make extensive anchoring much more hazardous to traffic so I'm sure the EA would discourage it.