January
9-12 “King Humpty Dumpty” – Cirencester Panto & Revue Co;
17-19 “The Wizard of Oz” – Phoenix Revue Co, Cirencester
Mid Jan – End Feb Snowdrop Season, Rococo Garden
25 - 27 Gloucester International Cajun and Zydeco Festival
February
1-3 Chinese State Circus, The Centaur, Cheltenham
Snowdrop weekends, Colesbourne Gardens
15-17 Cheltenham Folk Festival
19 Feathered Friends, Westonbirt Arboretum
23-24 Dog Days 2008, Westonbirt Arboretum
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March
11-14 Cheltenham Gold Cup Festival
27-28 Holford Heritage Tours, Westonbirt School and Arboretum (dates also in July & August)
April
25 – 4 May Wotton-under-Edge Festival
25 – 3 May Nailsworth Festival (25th)
29 – 5 May Cheltenham Jazz Festival
May
1-4 The Badminton Horse Trials
1-25 Stroudwater International Textile Festival
3-4 Tewkesbury Food Festival
3-5 Home and Garden Show, The Centaur, Cheltenham
3-5 Blenheim Palace Jousting Tournament ‘The Knights of Royal England’
7-18 Cheltenham Festival of Performing Arts, Cheltenham
13-24 Chipping Campden Music Festival
24-26 Tewkesbury Spring Festival (Dates to be confirmed)
26 Tetbury Woolsack Races and Traditional Street Fair
26 Cheese Rolling, Cooper’s Hill
30 Robert Dover’s Cotswold Olimpyck Games & Scuttlebrook Wake, Chipping Campden
30-1 June Wychwood Music Festival, Cheltenham Racecourse
June
1-30 Site08 – Stroud Valleys Arts Space Contemporary Arts Festival
4-8 Cheltenham Science Festival
15 Kemble Air Day, Kemble Airfield, near Cirencester
14 Gloucester Medieval Fayre
6 June – 26 July The Longborough Festival Opera, near Moreton-in-Marsh
20-22 Concerts at Westonbirt Arboretum
20-22 Cheltenham Food and Drink Festival
20-22 Lister Tyndale Steam Rally, Berkeley Castle
June-August Outdoor Shakespeare - Rain or Shine Theatre Co performing ‘A Winter’s Tale’ at various locations throughout the Cotswolds
July
3-8 Giffords Circus, Cirencester
4-6 Saul Canal Festival
4-20 Cheltenham Music Festival
5-6 The Cotswold Show and Country Fair, Cirencester
6 Dursley Run for Life
7-12 Dursley Town Festival
8-12 ‘Comedy of Errors’ – Outdoor theatre at Chavenage, near Tetbury
10-14 Giffords Circus, Lechlade-on-Thames
11-13 The Royal International Air Tattoo ‘The World’s Largest Military Air Show’, RAF Fairford
12-13 Tewkesbury Medieval Festival
15-19 Shakespeare in the Garden ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ Painswick Rococo Garden
17-21 Giffords Circus, Longborough, near Stow-on-the-Wold
18-19 Concerts at Westonbirt Arboretum
19 Stroud Country Show
19 Blenheim Palace Triathalon
19–2 Aug Gloucester Festival
23-27 Cirencester Early Music Festival
24-28 Giffords Circus, Barrington, near Burford
25-27 The 50th CLA Game Fair, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock
25-27 WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance) Festival, Charlton, near Malmesbury
26 July – 2 August Guiting Festival of Music, Guiting Power
26 – 3 Aug Gloucester International Rhythm and Blues Festival
26 – 25 August Gloucestershire Guild of Craftsmen, Painswick Centre
30 – 10 Aug C & G Cheltenham Cricket Festival
August
1-3 Festival of British Eventing, Gatcombe Park
1-3 Gloucestershire Steam Extravaganza, Kemble Airfield
1-3 Ballroom Dancing Festival, Cheltenham
6-19 Giffords Circus, Minchinhampton
8-10 Blenheim Palace Jousting Tournament ‘The Knights of Royal England’
16-17 The Fairford Traction Engine Rally and Show
16-25 A Celebration of Craftsmanship, Cheltenham College
18-25 Festival of the Tree, Westonbirt Arboretum
22-23 Frocester Beer Festival
22-25 Greenbelt Festival, Cheltenham Racecourse
25 Berkeley Agricultural Show
29 – 31 Ragged Hedge Fair – Family weekend of arts, crafts and music, near Cirencester
September
5-14 Giffords Circus, Cirencester
6 Moreton Show, Moreton-in-Marsh
9 Frampton-on-Severn Country Fair
11-14 Heritage Open Days
11-14 Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials
19-20 Stroud Fringe Festival
20 Tewkesbury Water Festival
28 Five Valleys Walk, Stroud
October
2-5 Tetbury Music Festival
4-18 Cotswold Arts & Anitiques Dealers Autumn Season of Selling Exhibitions
10-19 Cheltenham Literature Festival
13-26 Harvest Festival, Painswick Rococo Garden
November
7-8 Tewkesbury Mop Fair
14-16 The Open Meeting, Cheltenham Racecourse
15-30 Cheltenham Christmas Market (Provisional)
22 Cheltenham Christmas lights switch-on
27-30 The LAPADA Antiques and Fine Art Fair, The Centaur, Cheltenham
28 Nailsworth Christkindl Evening
28 – 21 Dec Enchanted Christmas – weekends at Westonbirt Arboretum
30 Tewkesbury Festival of Lights
December
Santa Specials, Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
5 Stroud Goodwill Evening
5 Bourton-on-the-Water Victorian Evening