20th September 2020 • 4pm – 9:30pm • London

The Nest Collective’s much-loved festival celebrating the finest folk and roots music from around the world.

At the Nest Collective, we’ve always felt that the shows with as few microphones as possible – with musicians playing unamplified, the old way – have been the most intimate and special. So we decided to create an entire event around this! No sound checks, no waiting for bands to plug in, just pure continuous music across multiple stages.

Magpie’s Nest is the new name of our Unamplifire Festival, taking its new title from our original music night founded in 2005 that grew into the Nest Collective.

This September’s event has been created with safety for Covid-19 in mind, and as such has a significantly reduced audience size. It reflects all the spirit and joy of our summer festivals, but has been specially devised to work in these times of distancing and restrictions. It will be smaller, but just as beautiful.

What the audience said:

“Brilliant festival. Superb quality of music and really cosy great atmosphere. More!” – Jon Herring

“A totally magical evening, such an amazing setting with excellent music.” – Oli Dillon

“…only caught 2 hours but saw 5 (astonishing) bands and had my soul profoundly nourished” – @MaraCarlyle

“Wonderful music from across these isles & around the world – thanks for a fab evening” – @imogenmathers

Keeping you safe

We are taking a number of measures to help everyone feel safe during this event, including:

• Significantly reducing our audience numbers
• Operating a safe queuing system at the bar
• Running a paperless, cashless system – card payments only please
• No printed tickets required, our door staff will have your order details
• Staff will be wearing PPE
• Hand sanitiser will be available on arrival, at the bar and at toilets

In return, we ask that you:

• Show your ticket on a mobile device rather than printed tickets
• Keep a safe distance away from other visitors and staff, and respect the safeguarding wishes of others
• Wash your hands using hand sanitiser at appropriate points
• Support our staff by showing patience whenever queuing is required
• Use your own personal protective equipment (PPE), if you choose to do so
• Regrettably, please do not bring dogs to any of our events
• Keep your belongings with you at all times and take your litter home