A Deepdale Festival Special recording of the Deepdale Podcast, recorded during the Deepdale Festival 2019 at the end of September. Interviews with artists Katie Spencer (8′ 20″), Tilly Moses (16′ 34″) & The Shackleton Trio (25′ 55″). Discover how the creative process works for them, and how they choose the places they play. Plus chats […]
Author: Jason
Managing director of Deepdale Backpackers & Camping
Goodbye Alister
On 13th September, very sadly one of our founders, Alister Borthwick, died suddenly. Alister and his wife Verily started the tourism diversification of Deepdale Farm over 30 years ago, with the creation of Deepdale Granary, now the Groups Hostel, and the campsite on two horse paddocks during August. Without Alister, there wouldn’t be the range […]
Friday Tickets Sell Out – Chris on the Jack Jay Show | BBC Radio Norfolk
On Monday evening, Chris headed to The Forum in Norwich to join Jack Jay on his radio show on BBC Radio Norfolk. The perfect opportunity for our festival director to get excited about the incredible line-up he’s put together for this year’s Deepdale Festival. The BBC Radio Norfolk team had also invited Lucy Grubb, Mark […]
Less than a fortnight! – Deepdale Festival
None of us here at Deepdale can quite believe that the Festival is less than a fortnight away. Infact at this time in 2 weeks (8am on Sunday morning) the last day of the Festival will be beginning, the smell of breakfast will be in the air, Hannah Birtwell will be about to perform the […]
Deepdale Podcast – September 2019
The September episode of the Deepdale Podcast is now available for our wonderful listening public to enjoy. Georgie and Jason chat about events in September in and around Deepdale, including the Norfolk Coast Dark Skies Festival. Simon tells us about his favourite place on the beautiful North Norfolk Coast. There’s chat about the more unusual […]
Circus at Deepdale Festival
We are really excited about our first colaboration with the Oak Circus Centre and Lost In Translation Circus from Norwich, who are sending us various acts throughout the weekend to entertain visitors at Deepdale Festival. On Saturday and Sunday stilt walkers will be joining us throughout the day, a chance for a rather tall selfie. […]
Special Concerts in St Mary’s Church
During this year’s Deepdale Festival, we have organised two very special concerts in St Mary’s Church, Burnham Deepdale, the lovely round towered church just across the road from Deepdale Backpackers & Camping. On Saturday the Marham Bluebirds, officially the Marham Military Wives Choir, will be performing at 4pm. This large choir will fill the church […]
Two Norfolk farms listed among the best in the country
Article by Chris Hill in the EDP – www.edp24.co.uk/business/farming/finalists-announced-for-2019-british-farming-awards-1-6229128 Two innovative Norfolk farms have been shortlisted among the best in the country as finalists for the 2019 British Farming Awards. Nominated in the Dairy Innovator of the Year category are Jonny and Carrie Burridge who run a dairy herd in Fundenhall, near Wymondham. It employs […]
Shortlisted for British Farming Awards #BFA19
Huge pride in the Deepdale Crew today, as Deepdale Farm has been nominated and shortlisted for a British Farming Award – the Diversification Innovator of the Year (large) Award. We nervously await the final in October, but for the moment we’d like to thank all the crew, the customers who have supported us and continue […]
Deepdale Podcast – August 2019
Jason and Georgie chat about upcoming events in and around the beautiful North Norfolk Coast during August. Jason and Chris chat about some of the highlights of Deepdale Festival, including how Chris asked Martin Carthy to perform. Chris interviews Morganway about their new album and their upcoming headlining set of Friday night of Deepdale Festival […]