A new music festival in west Oxfordshire may attract up to 15,000 people later this year.

The Wychwood Music Festival, to be held from August 6 to 8, is being organised by Graeme Merifield, of Wychwood Music in Corn Street, Witney.

Last year he set up a website, www. wychwoodmusic.co.uk, to promote live music events.

Mr Merrifield is set to apply to West Oxfordshire District Council for a public entertainments licence for the festival.

He said: "This will be a showcase of rock, world, folk and roots music and artist workshops. It will be an inspirational artistic outlet for west Oxfordshire and the chance to put this area on the artistic and musical map."

The festival will be held at Foxbury Farm, near Brize Norton, and may attract artists as diverse as the pop band Travis and acoustic blues singer Eric Bibb.

There will be two main music areas, with one stage for rock and pop and a second for world, folk and roots music. There will also be workshops and a large family campsite.

Mr Merifield added: "It will be built on the ancient tradition of the Wychwood Forest Fayre which, until the 1840s, would attract 40,000 people to the area for a day of celebration -- until the local landowners cancelled it."

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