Many festivals around the world now offer much more than music, but what effect do they have on your health?
Many festival-goers get up early to take part in workshops and classes
It is Friday morning and we are in a field in rural Wiltshire, in southwest England, where the two women and several hundred other people have just taken part in a 90-minute yoga workshop. "We found that going to concerts significantly reduces the levels of the stress hormone cortisol," says Daisy Fancourt, associate professor in epidemiology at University College London.
Julie Ballantyne, of the University of Queensland, has studied the effects on people's wellbeing of music festivals in Australia. Ziggy Marley tells me that festivals such as Womad are good for the collective wellbeing."They represent the potential of the world. Thousands of people together in unity," he says.Festival-goers at Womad can take part in many different workshops, such as the kora or African harp"If you aren't enjoying it and everyone else around you is, that could make you feel worse," says Dr Chris Howes, the founder of the charity Festival Medical Services .
"We see all the medical conditions you would expect in life from cardiac arrests to burns from barbecues and fires, to sunburn. We see an upswing in stomach problems towards the end of festivals as food people have brought starts to go off.
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