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WOOD festival, now in its 11th year, is a modest and family-friendly festival held in the beautiful grounds of Braziers Park in Oxfordshire.
Legend has it that brothers Joe and Robin Bennett, founders of the indie-rock extravaganza Truck Festival, launched Wood once they and their friends started having kids and wanted a means of initiating their young into festival culture in a less ear-piercing way.
So Wood has remained small-scale, with plenty of children’s activities and a blend of music — largely folk and Americana — reaching out across the generations.
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