Editing Wallingford, Oxfordshire (section)

===Music festivals===
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[[File:BunkFest.jpg|thumb|Dancing in the Market Square, Wallingford, at BunkFest]]
Starting in 2002 in the Cross Keys pub, BunkFest, usually being held in the first week of September, has become the largest free multi-day festival in the [[United Kingdom|UK]] with an attendance of over 25,000 in 2017.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15512013.Folk_music__beer_and_dancing_-_it_can_only_be_Bunkfest/|title=Folk music, beer and dancing – it can only be Bunkfest|website=Oxford Mail|date=4 September 2017 |access-date=1 August 2018}}</ref> The BunkFest folk music [[music festival|festival]] combines a broad range of [[folk music]], [[Morris dance|dance]] displays, a [[beer festival]] and the local Bunk steam railway. It is a not-for-profit festival. The festival is intended to appeal to a wide audience. The main stage features light music and dancing during the day and lively folk-rock and world music acts in the evening.

Other venues around the town feature a wide variety of acts, ranging from quiet, contemplative folk artists and singer-songwriters to raucous rock bands. It attracts between thirty and fifty [[dance]] sides. The dance programme has included [[Cotswold]] and Border Morris, [[Old-time music#Appalachia|Appalachian]] and Eastern European forms, as well as traditional Irish, Scottish and Welsh forms.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.wokinghampaper.com/welsh-springsteen-to-perform-in-wokingham/|title='Welsh Springsteen' to perform in Wokingham|website=Wokingham Today|access-date=13 August 2018|date=2018-08-12}}</ref> Rug Fest is Wallingford's summer [[music festival]] located at the Wallingford Sport Park on the Hithercroft. Founded in 2008, RugFest took two years off due to site refurbishments, returning in 2018. The 2018 festival was headlined by [[Scouting for Girls]].