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The Secret Garden Party 2011 Early Bird Tickets Now On Sale

• 12th Aug 2010

Following another sold out year, where 17,000 gardeners plus 9,000 crew and performers visited The Secret Garden Party in Cambridgeshire, organisers will now offer the chance of purchasing a limited number of ticket s to next year’s Party at a reduced, early bird, price of £125, available from link now.

Teen tickets will be available from October 1st, along with a deposit scheme for next year’s tickets, where Gardeners will be able to purchase full price tickets in three instalments. Under 12's Tickets will be available with an adult tickets and issued with a family pass, giving priority parking and access to the Family Camping field, a brand new zone for 2011.

Programming has already started for The Secret Garden Party 2011, with plans to push the creative, scholarly, theatrical and musical boundaries of the critically acclaimed July event even further.

This year Gardeners discovered a people-powered distillery, ex-MI5 informants participating in debate, explorers and scientists, snakes and sexuality, for the duration, revelling in the Fact or Fiction theme. It also saw dance mega-force Gorillaz Sound System take to the stage while an art installation-cum-dancefloor exploded and smouldered in the centre of the lake, in a spectacular burning of the Blimp, complete with firework display. It was a stunning climax to the most successful SGP to date.

Ian Goldin, former VP of the World Bank, economics adviser to President Nelson Mandela, and current Director of Oxford's 21st Century School was also on site participating in discussion, while Marcus Du Sautoy, Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, talked about his BBC Horizon documentary on consciousness, among other very awesome things.

Musically, the Garden provided an almighty soundtrack to the weekend, including performances by Marina and the Diamonds, Eliza Doolittle, Darwin Deez, Lissie, Summer Camp, Mercury Rev, Caravan Palace, Fionn Regan, Fenech Soler, Example, and secret shows from Gaggle, Joss Stone and Mystery Jets. The Garden also grew this year, introducing a new field to accommodate more Gardeners, and allow the event to work with more projects and performers, including Strummerville and the new Crossroads stage.

The Secret Garden Party thrives, in every aspect of its production, to be as grand as possible, while also maintaining the attention to detail that it’s known for, and incorporating all the new ideas they’d like to work with. Dispelling rumours however, The Head Gardeners have stated that the 2011 event will not be any bigger in capacity, and retain the size and atmosphere of this year’s Secret Garden Party.

The Head Gardeners, and all at The Secret Garden Party, send a big thank you to those who attended and supported the event this year, including all Gardeners, performers, artists, staff and volunteers. The success of the event was due to the creativity of those Gardeners who excelled this year in their enthusiasm for the Fact of Fiction theme.