The small-festival guide: twelve weekends worth leaving town for
Fields, lakes and one disused quarry: our pick of festivals with fewer than five thousand people.
Big festivals have their pleasures. So do small ones: shorter queues, closer stages, and the strange intimacy of seeing the same faces every day for three days.
Our guide favours festivals that care about their site, programme new artists alongside familiar ones, and have at least one stage you can reach without a map.
