Remember when everyone used to huddle around a campfire on school trips while someone played the guitar, and you all told stories, and had a singalong?
Well, this is like that, except instead of your PE teacher, the person with the guitar is a celebrated folk musician, and there’s a full bar stocked with home-made wines, ciders, ales, and mead.
It’s run by the Nest Collective (a group of folk who like folk) and their pals Friends Of The Earth. Together they decided to create Campfire Club as a way to reconnect with both nature and other people, through the medium of booze, fire and song.
For a number of weeks throughout the warmer months, they gather around a crackling firepit in some of London’s most beautiful green spaces, from city farms to community gardens. Guests are then invited to cosy up quite literally feet away from whichever talented folk musician has been chosen to play that evening, and clink glasses as they soak up the acoustic rhythms and day slowly fades into night.
The line up for the 2025 summer season includes the Award-winning broken folk experiments by Clair Le C and Carli Jefferson, the Lunatraktors; multi-instrumentalist accoustic trio, Three Cane Whale and award-winning songwriters Sarah Jane Scouten and Patrick Stefan.
Early bird tickets cost £15, which – as spine-tinglingly special, one-of-a-kind experiences go – is pretty good value. And on top of these campfire gigs, the Nest Collective are also kicking off the season with the Magpie’s Nest festival on 7th June, for which they invite a whole slew of musicians to perform in a secluded riverside garden.
Which should leave you feeling chirpy.
NOTE: Campfire Club runs from 20th June – 30th August 2025. Early-bird tickets cost £15 – you can find out more, and book on the Campfire Club website.
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