What is the Mistletoe Festival?
Tenbury Wells - England's Mistletoe Town - holds its annual Mistletoe Festival in late November and early December.

Main events take place on the first Saturday in December (aka National Mistletoe Day) though there is a longer mistletoe season of events around this date. These events include the town's traditional wholesale 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 ran in 2005 and 2006. One fixture, established in 2005, 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 at the old livestock market have now ceased - but they continue at an out-of-town venue each year.

Tenbury Wells Mistletoe Festival 2009 2009

The 2009 Mistletoe Festival is being organised by the Tenbury Events Committee, and full details will be on their website. The website you are viewing is a simplified version of the original Festival website created by Tenbury English Mistletoe Enterprise, who founded the festival back in 2004/5. An archived version of previous years' websites, detailing previous events, may be available later in 2009 - a slideshow summary is given below.

Click here for a Media Release for the 2009 Festival

Outline events for 2009 are summarised here. All are subject to confirmation by Tenbury Events.

Key dates for 2009:

Mistletoe Festival Season from 20th November to 8th December including;

Mistletoe Auctions on Tuesdays 24th November. 1st December and 8th December.

Mistletoe Day celebrations on Saturday 5th December, including crowning of Mistletoe Queen, Charity Mistletoe Auction and Druid Mistletoe Blessing

Slideshow of events at previous festivals

Further information

For details of Festival Events for 2009 please visit the Tenbury Events Committee website.

For specific information on the Mistletoe Auctions in 2009 please contact the auctioneer, Nick Champion.

For other mistletoe events check the events pages at Jonathan Briggs' Mistletoe Pages as well as Druids' Mistletoe Foundation website.

For information about mistletoe in general contact Jonathan Briggs