Green Gathering 2027

About Green Gathering

At Piercefield Park, Newport, Wales, Green Gathering 2027 runs from 29 July to 1 August as an off-grid, low-impact festival with a 5,000 capacity.

The roots go back to Green Collective gatherings at Worthy Farm in the early 1980s. The Big Green Gathering Company formed in 1993, the first Big Green Gathering drew almost 2,000 people in 1994, and the event re-formed as a Community Interest Company after a 2010 community camp.

The current Welsh-borders site near Chepstow dates to 2011. In 2017, Green Gathering won the Greenest Festival accolade at the UK Festival Awards.

Lineup and Programme

The bill stretches from psychedelic and folk into punk, political singer-songwriter sets, swing, dance, hip-hop, ska, reggae, poetry, comedy and cabaret.

Named stages and spaces include Soundscape Solar Stage, Triban Stage, Floating Lotus Stage, Raconteurs' Delight, Speakers' Forum & Radical Cinema, Voices of Gaia, The Uncommon and Glad Apple Cider Bar.

Across the programme, live music and DJs sit alongside spoken word, talks and debates, workshops, cabaret, comedy, film screenings, dance, craft sessions, kids' activities and teen activities. The festival uses 100% solar electricity and renewable-powered stages.

Who Is It For?

The audience is mixed-age, family-friendly and eco-conscious, with the programme built around low-impact living, activism, music, arts, workshops and community spaces.

Families are part of the brief. Under-18s must be accompanied by a responsible adult aged 18+, and tickets can only be bought independently by people aged 18 or over.

The Venue and Site

Views run across the Severn estuary and Wye Valley from Piercefield Park, an outdoor hillside site sharing gates and a car park with Chepstow Racecourse.

Full festival tickets include up to four nights' camping in rolling meadows. Cars must stay in the car park, while campervans, caravans and trailer tents need live-in vehicle passes and use the live-in vehicle areas.

Facilities include compost toilets, portable toilets, drinking water standpipes, simple showers, a wood-fired sauna, solar-powered phone charging, recycling depots, an info exchange tent, a medical tent, welfare support, accessible toilets and shower, wheelchair and mobility scooter charging, and shuttle buses.

Communal firepits and small individual campfires are allowed, weather permitting.

Travel

• Nearest station: Chepstow railway station, with a shuttle bus running to the site.
• Road access: routes use the M4, M48 Junction 1 Chepstow, M48 Junction 2 Chepstow, A466 and A48.
• Parking: cars use the hardstanding off-site car park shared with Chepstow Racecourse, then travel onward by shuttle bus to the Welcome Tent.
• Live-in vehicles: campervans, caravans and trailer tents are directed to campervan fields, with advance vehicle passes recommended.
• Distance: Bristol is 18 miles away and London is 125 miles away.