Chilled in a Field Festival is a small, family-friendly music festival in the

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. First run in 2010, in 2014 it was listed by

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as one of their ''Top 25 summer festivals for music and arts lovers, foodies and families'', and given a Gold Award by the family festival review website Festival Kidz. The festival now draws an attendance of 1,500+, having grown from an attendance of only 120 people in its first year. The festival was first held in

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, and has also been held at

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. and at Bentley Wildfowl and Motor Museum in Sussex. Bands headlining the festival have included The Egg, Cocos Lovers, She Drew The Gun, and Tankus the Henge. The festival was most recently held in 2019. it is on indefinite hiatus as the result of financial difficulties arising from missing 2020 and 2021 due to the

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FestivalKidz, Chilled in a Field Festival

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