Tom Newton - Teddy Rocks Festival

Today, on the 30th of April, we should be pitching our tents and getting ready to spend the weekend rocking out in a field to the likes of Skindred, The Fratellis and Terrorvision at Teddy Rocks Festival.
But thanks to the pandemic Teddy Rocks has been rolled over for the second year running, to 2022.

Teddy Rocks is a UK charity festival held at Charrisworth Farm in Blandford, Dorset.
It's one of the first music festivals of the year and it raises money for Teddy20 -  A charity set up to help children and young people flighting cancer.

The charity was set up by the Newton family in memory of their son Ted after he passed away at just 10 years old from a rare form of bone cancer called Ewing Sarcoma.
Tom Newton, Ted's older brother, is the man responsible for starting Teddy Rocks Festival, which started out as a small gig amongst friends and family in a pub in 2011, raising £400 for their charity.

Over the years it has grown into a 3 day event which has seen The Darkness, Feeder, Ash, The Hoosiers, Twin Atlantic and The Zutons take to the stage.
I caught up with Tom a few weeks ago to chat about how things are looking for Teddy Rocks 2022 and hear the amazing story of how Teddy Rocks has grown into one of the hottest festivals on the  UK music scene.

https://teddyrocks.co.uk/

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