Naturist Foundation Jazz Festival

[Scottie Marberry]

Afantastic 4 day event for lovers of all types of jazz. Featuring the UK's leading jazz musicians it's a long weekend not to be missed. Visit naturistfoundation.org to book your ticket and camping pitch.

The Naturist Foundation is hosting a clothing optional beer and jazz festival and everyone is welcome. The All That Jazz, Blues and Real Ale Festival 2022 is set to kick off soon and it offers a weekend of jazz and nudity.

The event is described as "a fantastic weekend of Jazz and real ale in a naturist environment". It will feature a line-up of 12 jazz and blues bands including Ask An American and The Andy Dickens Jazz Band.

The Zo Gilby Quartet, who won the Parliamentary Jazz Awards for best jazz vocalist in 2019, will also be performing. Festivalgoers will also get to participate in a decorated umbrella parade as they enjoy the music.

Trombone poetry by Paul Taylor is also on the programme. He'll be playing classics and originals on his trombone to accompany engaging poetry. Adam Glasser will also be joining proceedings alongside three musicians for a three-hour harmonica set.

The festival is hosted by The Naturist Foundation, a charity whose aim is "The pursuit of personal well being and wellness through naturist recreational activities!" Their headquarters are in Brocken Hurst in South East London and are complete with a pool, modern facilities and camping spots for visitors.

There will be refreshments available at the festival from the on-site Tea Pot Cafe, which serves up all the caf classics like full English breakfasts and sandwiches. There will also be food stalls and two bars available for drinks. Entry to the festival on Thursday and Friday is 16 and Saturday and Sunday tickets cost 24. For access to all four days, it's 60.

Our unique festival: the UK's hottest jazz and blues acts perform, with the backdrop of an Elizabethan stately home and the rolling Yorkshire Wolds. Camping with hot showers, feasting on woodfired pizzas and ice creams, real ales and cocktails, and a vintage tea tent with homebaked treats. 15 acres of magical gardens to explore, a woodland adventure playground, giant games and a jungle garden.

The Burton Agnes Jazz & Blues Festival runs from 6pm Friday 12th July 'til 6pm Sunday 14th July, 2024.The camping field opens 3pm Friday 12th July 'til midday Monday 15th July. One camping voucher is required per tent, caravan or campervan; each camper must have a Festival ticket.

You might have a mental picture of Crimea, the peninsula in the Black Sea that Russia has officially annexed. It's famous for its coastline, its old Soviet-era spas, the Black Sea Fleet. Bet you didn't know Crimea's also famous for its nude beaches.

"Lisya (Fox) Bay is so named because of the red clay in the area. I don't think it has any foxy-ish connotations," Antonova says. "The last time I was there was a couple of years ago. It's mostly a place for hippies and people with children, so it's fun."

Fox Bay is one of the most well-known nude beaches in the Crimea. There's also a pretty famous one called Koktebel which also hosts an annual jazz festival. Antanova says the beaches have their own relaxed vibe.

"It's not that you have to be nude, but they are 'clothing optional' and lots of people tend to bathe in the nude," she says. "The first time I went was because I was just curious about it. Then I realized that the best thing about the place is that there are little islands of civilization in Crimea."

"They are really tired of the general chaos because successive Ukrainian regimes have mismanaged the Ukrainian economy, and particularly Crimea's economy," Antonova says. "Crimea during the Soviet Union was once the jewel of Soviet tourism."

"I think Crimeans really want a resurgence, they want normal tourism money, better tourism infrastructure, and yes, they want Russia to help out with that. I don't know how it will work out, but there is that hope there."

"Everyone should definitely, at least once in their life, go to Crimea, go to a nude beach, camp out there for a week. It's a fun experience. It's definitely something I will remember for the rest of my life."

(upbeat jazz music) - [Will] This week on "Wild Travels," we'll attend Sunday services at Daytona's Drive-In Church, sample the handmade stogies at Tampa's Tabanero Cigar Factory, try not to stare at Cypress Cove's alternative lifestyle, open the cabinet of curiosities in Vermont's Main Street Museum, and then marvel at the miniature White House at the President's Hall of Fame.

(upbeat jazz music continues) - [Announcer] "Wild Travels" was made possible in part by Alaska Railroad, providing year-round transportation to many Alaska destinations, traversing nearly 500 miles of wild landscapes between Anchorage, Fairbanks, Denali National Park, and more, alaskarailroad.com.

(upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) (gentle church music) So you wanna attend church this Sunday, but you don't feel like dressing up or leaving your dog at home or even getting out of your car.

- As we come, we are so grateful for the love and the care that we feel from our Lord in this place, but we also have a responsibility to share each other's burdens and to lift them to the Lord together.

(upbeat music) - [Will] Of the many festivals we attend, none has a more objectionable premise than the one held annually in Fruita, Colorado, celebrating a barnyard accident that occurred decades ago.

His spirit lives on in the hearts and minds of all the citizens in this small Colorado town whose slogan could possibly be "Come to Fruita, it's a no-brainer" - [Troy] There's never been any documented proof of another chicken that lived losing its head.

(upbeat rhythmic music) In historic Ybor City, Florida, Tabanero Cigars are making stogies the old-fashioned way, and every tobacco leaf gets treated with loving care until, of course, it gets burned to a crisp.

(upbeat Latin music continues) (upbeat Latin music continues) (upbeat music) - Coming soon on "Wild Travels," innovative creations at the Inventor's Expo, harvesting Spiderwebs in Vermont, an alien encounter in Manitowoc, and the Museum of Everyday Life's exhibit on dust.

(upbeat music continues) (upbeat quirky music) White River Junction, Vermont is home to the Main Street Museum, an odd name for a place with so many off-kilter exhibits and curated by a man with a truly subversive mind.

(upbeat music continues) - [Announcer] "Wild Travels" was made possible in part by Alaska Railroad, providing year-round transportation to many Alaska destinations, traversing nearly 500 miles of wild landscapes between Anchorage, Fairbanks, Denali National Park, and more, alaskarailroad.com.

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