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Lake of Stars and Trekstock make a date in Malawi

• 30th Sep 2009

It’s not every day that the thought of trekking to a festival seems like a sensible idea. Certainly not if you’re the type who stumbles through the turnstiles at 2am with a wheelbarrow full of instant noodles and crates of beer, but it’s what Sophie Epstone does and it’s what she does it for that’s important.

Sophie Epstone has trekked to Everest, the Andes and the Costa Rican jungle in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, and this year is trekking for 10 days to the 3rd highest mountain in Africa – Mount Mulanje, reaching 10,000ft, in Malawi. Her final destination is Lake Malawi, to which she’ll be making her way with fellow trekkers to get involved with this year’s vinspired Lake of Stars Festival.

Sophie says; ‘I'm going to head to the vinspired Lake of Stars festival on the 15th of October and help out, the idea is to take Trekstock to Malawi and hopefully get some new supporters on board too. It will be great to be able to speak to current supporter Radio 1's Nihal over there and maybe get some of the UK bands on board for future gigs in London….’

‘The festival is a really exciting opportunity for Trekstock also in future and talks are underway about how we can merge the trek/festival experience possibly for 2010, so that music lovers can experience the festival yet also undertake a challenge and give back to charity on both sides of the globe at the same time. ‘

The trekkers will be meeting up with artists playing at vinspired Lake of Stars including The Maccabees, SWAY, Nihal, Hot Chip, Tayo, Radioclit and African artists The Black Missionaries, DJ Mo Laudi, Dominant 1 & Third Eye and Ben Mankhamba amongst others.