About the Tenbury Wells Mistletoe Season
Tenbury Wells - England's Mistletoe Town - holds its annual Mistletoe Season and Festival from late November until Christmas.
Main Festival events take place on the first Saturday in December (National Mistletoe Day), though there is a longer mistletoe season of events around this date, including the town's unique Mistletoe Auctions.
Background
Tenbury's Mistletoe Festival began in 2004, when the traditional Mistletoe Auctions, held in the town for over 100 years, seemed threatened with closure. Local people were determined Tenbury's Mistletoe legacy would continue, and so the Festival was born.
From small beginnings in 2004 much bigger Festivals have run in subsequent years. One key fixture is National Mistletoe Day, endorsed by Parliament in 2005 and set to take place on 1st December (or the nearest Saturday) each year.
The traditional mistletoe (and holly) sales had to leave the old livestock market site in 2006, relocating to a rural site for a couple of years, but now (since 2010) back in town, in the Tenbury Business Park.
Events
Regular events now include the Crowning of the Mistletoe Queen (and Holly Prince), a multi-faith ceremony to celebrate mistletoe, led by the Druidic Mistletoe Foundation, the children's Lantern and Santa Parade plus of course, the Mistletoe Auctions. All set in a season of arts and entertainment events over a 6 week period. This year's programme is set out on the Events page.
The slide-show below illustrates some events from recent years.
Proper slide show coming soon... This is just a place-marker at present
