Fairport Festival 2024

Following the success of the combined schedule for the Main Field (Fairport); The Brasenose; The Red Lion; The Cream of the Crop; The Souk and the Church, the Village Hall will produce new version for 2024. It is still early days and most of the venues have not yet settled on a line-up, but the line-ups announced so far can be found at the foot of this page. This will be updated as new line-ups are announced, so check back later for the most up-to-date version.

Fairport Breakfasts

A Big Thank-you:

Well, Fairport 2023 is now over, and what a festival it has been! We managed to sell more breakfasts than ever before and this will help us with some much-needed maintenance, as well as keeping our rental charges as low as possible to the benefit of many local groups and organisations. This was only possible thanks to all the volunteer hours put in by so many people to who we are extremely grateful.

The rest of the page below contains generic information as well as information relating to 2023. This page will of course be updated to contain information for 2024 as and when it becomes available. This includes the running-order timeline for all the venues in and around the village which seemed so popular in 2023.

A few statistics on the 2023 operation can be found here

The Village Hall's Famous Fairport Breakfast is known to set festival goers up for the day!

This page provides information on the Famous Fairport Breakfast available at Cropredy Village Hall. Below you will find a little background, together with information such as opening times and prices. There is also a section for villagers on how to volunteer to help with the Famous Fairport Breakfast. At the bottom of the page you will find a link to the all the line-ups and times at all the venues at the festival. Copies of these will be on the breakfast tables at the Village Hall but to save paper, you can take a copy from this page, or photograph the larger printed copy at the Village Hall.

A Little Background:

Cropredy Village Hall has been providing breakfasts to Festival goers for over 20 years. With the help of well over 50 volunteers and the support of the Fairport Festival Goers, this has allowed the Village Hall to benefit of the local community by keeping rental charges as low as possible, and providing funds to ensure that the Hall is well maintained.

Volunteering:

Providing a full breakfast to festival-goers is a major challenge in terms of catering supplies and equipment but particularly in staffing the many roles required. Although the whole event is coordinated by the Hall Management Committee, it would not be possible to provide breakfasts without an army of around 60 volunteers (about 10% of the population of the village although some of our volunteers come from further afield including friends or family of villagers). Some of these are experienced, some are novices, but we'd like to think that all have a really good time.

We are always looking for new volunteers, so if you can spare a few hours on any (all all) of the days listed below, we'd love to hear from you. Roles that we need to fill involve: BBQing; cooking; serving breakfasts; serving tea & coffee; fetching & carrying; and clearing up.

If you would like to join our amazing team of volunteers, please contact Kate Payne on 01295 758282 or katepayne@rocketmail.com.

Opening Hours 2024:

After the success of opening on the Thursday morning, the Famous Fairport Breakfast will again be available for early arrivals on Wednesday or Thursday. The table below shows when breakfast is available during the festival.

Thursday	9am - 12pm
Friday	7am - 12pm
Saturday	7am - 12pm
Sunday	7am - 12pm

2024 Menu and Prices:

All meals include bread, tea, coffee or squash, and refills are free!

Full English	TBA	1 Sausage, 1 Bacon, 1 Egg & Baked beans
Jumbo	TBA	2 Sausages, 2 Bacon, 2 Eggs & Baked beans
XL	TBA	3 Sausages, 3 Bacon, 2 Eggs & Baked-beans
Vegetarian	TBA	2 Veggie Sausages, 1 Egg & Baked-beans
Vegetarian Jumbo	TBA	4 Veggie Sausages, 2 Eggs & Baked-beans
Junior	TBA	1 Sausage or 1 Bacon & Baked Beans
Sandwiches	TBA	2 Sausages or 2 Bacon
Fruit Juice	TBA	Apple or Orange
Water	TBA	Bottle

Factoid:

We recognise that most festival-goers refer to the festival as 'Cropredy' but this would not make sense to the residents of Cropredy who simply use the term 'Fairport' to cover the entire festival, including the fringe, and of course the Village Hall's Famous Fairport Breakfast.

2024 Venue, Bands and Timings:

Below you will find an image showing the venues, bands and time slots for Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday. Since the festival is still a few months away, not all information is available at this time. The scheduled will be updated as information becomes available. Click on the image to see a printable PDF version. Note that printed versions of this will be available (no charge) at the Village Hall during the festival.

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