HAMPSHIRE’S award-winning intimate festival, Blissfields, is just around the corner!

Judged Best Small Festival at the UK Festival Awards this family-friendly event runs from July 2-4 at Woodmancott, Hampshire.

The festival is a celebration of music, cinema, and arts and will celebrate its 15th year with the theme Somewhere In Time.

Music acts include a late-night set with mixtape master DY Yoda, with Best Hip Hop Act MOBO Award winner Akala also lined up to perform alongside John Grant, The Horrors, Simian Mobile Disco, Grandmaster Flash, and Public Service Broadcasting.

They all join Glass Animals, Ghostpoet, Ibibio Sound Machine, Songhoy Blues, Gengahr and 150 other performers.

Also confirmed are films being screened at Blissfields, alongside the list of judges for the Blissfields Independent Film Festival, winners of the Road To Blissfields competition, and Comedy and Spoken Word line-ups.

It tops Blissfields biggest ever arts programme.

Since 2001 Blissfields has invited soldout crowds to its small but perfectly formed, 5,000 capacity, tree-lined mini wilderness in the Hampshire countryside.

Music at Blissfields runs until 4am each day, crafted to take its audience from clear afternoons of discovery and frivolity, through lofty main stage sets, into the wee small hours of the Blisscotheque and Hidden Hedge.

Blissfields invited rising film-makers to be part of the Blissfields Independent Film Festival. Their work – short films five to 15 minutes long – will be showcased in the Electric Dreams Cinema before judges decide their Best In Show while Dark Scream will decide the Best In Horror Show for films with a sinister edge.

The festival has curated its mainstream movie screenings to support the Somewhere In Time theme, looking for films which bend the perceptions of time and question our place within it.

This year the billing includes: Big Fish (110mins) PG, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure (90min) PG, Flight of the Navigator (90mins) U, Forrest Gump (142mins) 12, Groundhog Day (101 mins) PG, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 2005 (109mins) PG and Wall-E (93mins) U.

Launched in 2013, the independent film festival is part of the festival’s on-going commitment to support new talent.

Blissfields will also host club-nights to find the best new music as part of its Road To Blissfields competition.

Blissfields have also opened up a grant opportunity inviting anybody with a concept they would like to premier at the festival a chance to see it come to life. There will also be new art installations by the Hidden Hedge team adapting the Somewhere In Time theme into the boldest pieces of art yet seen at the festival.