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2008
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, Painswick 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
March  
11-14 Cheltenham Gold Cup Festival
14-16 International Historic Motorsport Show, Stoneleigh Park, Coventry
24 Classic Saloon Raceday, Castle Combe Circuit
27-28 Holford Heritage Tours, Westonbirt School and Arboretum (dates also in July & August)
April  
6 Jaguar Spares Day, Stoneleigh Park, Coventry
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
24-25 French Classic Car Hillclimbing, Prescott Hill Climb
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 Fathers Day
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 The Zutons, Westonbirt Arboretum
21 Crowded House, Westonbirt Arboretum
22 Status Quo, 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 Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, Westonbirt Arboretum
19 Katherine Jenkins with The National Symphony Orchestra, Westonbirt Arboretum
19 Stroud Country Show
19 Blenheim Palace Triathalon
19-20 Great and British Motorsport Festival, Castle Combe Circuit
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
25-27 Silverstone Classic Car Racing
26 July - 2 August Guiting Festival of Music, Guiting Power
26 - 3 Aug Gloucester International Rhythm & 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
2-3 Classic Car Racing, Castle Combe Circuit
2-3 Vintage Car Hill Climbing Weekend, Prescott Hill Climb
2-3 Jaguar XK60th Annivesary Weekend, Goodwood Circuit
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 Sports Car Racing, Castle Combe Circuit
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
13 MG Racing, Castle Combe Circuit
19-20 Stroud Fringe Festival
20 Tewkesbury Water Festival
21 Classic Car Show, Blenheim Palace
27-28 Classic Car Hill Climbing Weekend, Prescott Hill Climb
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
19 Jaguar Spares Day, Stoneleigh Park, Coventry
November  
7-8 Tewkesbury Mop Fair
14-16 The Open Meeting, Cheltenham Racecourse
14-16 Classic Motor Show, NEC Birmingham
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

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