Music is the heart and soul of the Isle of Wight Festival, a festival that is steeped in history that started back in the summer of love 1968, and where in 1970, a line up over 5 days included (amongst others) Jimi Hendrix, The Who, The Doors, Joni Mitchell, Supertramp, Leonard Cohen, Joan Baez, Chicago, Procol Harum and played to over 600,000 people.
The Isle of Wight Festival is committed to supporting live music and emerging artists from around the UK and the River stage is the perfect platform to get new tunes out there to thousands of music-lovers.
Isle of Wight Festival promoter John Giddings commented: “We have this fantastic opportunity every year to showcase some of the great new musical talent that is out there. I’m looking forward to hearing some great bands across the weekend on this stage and hoping to find that future Isle of Wight headliner!”