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RAFT takes place each June / July throughout South Wales' picturesque Rhondda valleys.
The festival was founded in the town of Treorchy in summer 2018, with that first highly successful weekend then expanding in 2019 to also promote events in neighbouring Pentre, Penrhys, Tonypandy & Ynyshir, and additional outreach events also taking place in nearby Tonyrefail and the village of Blaengwynfi, sister portal of the infamous "Rhondda Tunnel".
Treorchy has always been indelibly linked with culture, the town itself being home to the world famous Treorchy Male Choir, the Parc & Dare brass band, and the iconic Park and Dare Theatre. Treorchy is also the only town in Rhondda, to date, to have hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales, though the county borough now looks forward to welcoming the return of the national cultural festival to the region in 2023.
In addition to its stunning central Victorian theatre, Treorchy also boasts a broad High Street which stretches for nearly a mile along the valley floor, which in early 2020 was awarded the title of UK High Street of the Year. Like the other towns in the Rhondda, it is filled with a wide variety of shops and stores selling almost every conceivable product. Craft shops and cafés, boutiques and bakers, butchers and upholsterers, all vie for space with banks and building societies, solicitors and more.
The Rhondda is awash with colour, culture, charisma and charm, while around us the mountain ridges rise above 1500 feet, and offer spectacular vistas across the Bwlch mountain to Bridgend and Port Talbot, across the Rhigos to Hirwaun and the Cynon valley, as far as the Bristol Channel, Exmoor and upwards through the Brecon Beacons.
Join us here, June 4th to July 4th 2021 for RAFT 2021,full information on which will be available here soon
For further information on visiting Rhondda and all its various town centres and attractions, visit www.rctcbc.gov.uk/EN/Tourism
Further information on the town of Treorchy is available on the Visit Treorchy website at www.visittreorchy.co.uk
The festival was founded in the town of Treorchy in summer 2018, with that first highly successful weekend then expanding in 2019 to also promote events in neighbouring Pentre, Penrhys, Tonypandy & Ynyshir, and additional outreach events also taking place in nearby Tonyrefail and the village of Blaengwynfi, sister portal of the infamous "Rhondda Tunnel".
Treorchy has always been indelibly linked with culture, the town itself being home to the world famous Treorchy Male Choir, the Parc & Dare brass band, and the iconic Park and Dare Theatre. Treorchy is also the only town in Rhondda, to date, to have hosted the National Eisteddfod of Wales, though the county borough now looks forward to welcoming the return of the national cultural festival to the region in 2023.
In addition to its stunning central Victorian theatre, Treorchy also boasts a broad High Street which stretches for nearly a mile along the valley floor, which in early 2020 was awarded the title of UK High Street of the Year. Like the other towns in the Rhondda, it is filled with a wide variety of shops and stores selling almost every conceivable product. Craft shops and cafés, boutiques and bakers, butchers and upholsterers, all vie for space with banks and building societies, solicitors and more.
The Rhondda is awash with colour, culture, charisma and charm, while around us the mountain ridges rise above 1500 feet, and offer spectacular vistas across the Bwlch mountain to Bridgend and Port Talbot, across the Rhigos to Hirwaun and the Cynon valley, as far as the Bristol Channel, Exmoor and upwards through the Brecon Beacons.
Join us here, June 4th to July 4th 2021 for RAFT 2021,full information on which will be available here soon
For further information on visiting Rhondda and all its various town centres and attractions, visit www.rctcbc.gov.uk/EN/Tourism
Further information on the town of Treorchy is available on the Visit Treorchy website at www.visittreorchy.co.uk
