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unusual facts about free festival



Dragon Festival

The Dragon Festival is a Spanish free festival which ran from 1997 to 2009, held at Los Cigarrones on the riverbed of the Rio Guadalfeo, 2 km to the south of Órgiva, and from 2010 at Santa Fé, Granada, Spain, during the month of March, and culminating on the weekend nearest the March equinox.

Watchfield

Watchfield Free Festival was the only Free festival to be government sponsored (with assistance by then-Home Secretary Roy Jenkins), or be given official recognition.


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Dragon Festival

In 2010 an estimated 1500 people created a free festival in Santa Fe, 4 km to the west of Granada (60 km north of Orgiva) and is widely perceived as the new home of the Dragon Festval.

Nigel Sixsmith

He performed on synthesizer and later Keytar with several bands including Hawkwind at the Windsor Park Free Festival and other Free Festivals held in England and Europe.

Radical Dance Faction

RDF were a regular act on the UK free festival scene prior to the 1994 Criminal Justice Act, and were part of the crusties and anarcho punk movement until they called it day in the mid 1990s.

William Dwyer

Ubi Dwyer, Bill 'Ubi' Dwyer (1933-2001), Windsor Free Festival organiser