Annual Music Festival
On farmland east of the village the electric folk band Fairport Convention stages an annual three-day music festival titled Fairport's Cropredy Convention. The festival has expanded from a one-day event first held in 1980 (although the band had played fundraisers in the village since 1976). The festival presents a varied line-up of music but Fairport Convention always plays the closing set on the Saturday night. 'Big name' artists such as Richard Thompson and Robert Plant regularly perform. Most festival-goers camp on the festival site but some arrive by narrowboat on the canal. In 2007 the festival sold all available tickets before it opened, the first time this had been achieved.
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