Three Rivers opens at Durrants Farm in Porchfield on the evening of Friday 29 May, and the opening night of the island's own independent festival has a particular energy: campers arriving through the afternoon, the site setting up, and the evening programme beginning against a backdrop of north-central Isle of Wight farmland that looks nothing like a normal festival site and everything like the setting the festival was built for.
Three Rivers takes its name from the Medina, the Yar, and the Newtown rivers, and has grown from a reggae-rooted gathering into an event that programmes Dub Pistols, Jaguar Skills, and The Undercover Hippy alongside the island acts and the woodland dance stages that run late into the night. The Friday opening gives you the site in its most spacious state, before the weekend crowd arrives in full. Camping is on-site; getting there early is rewarded.
Tickets from £80 for adults; under-12s free. threeriversfest.uk for full line-up and camping options. More music events on the Isle of Wight across the bank holiday weekend.