Ben is the Founder & Director of Wild Paths, an award winning events team that organises
and programmes a number of festivals, events and venues in and around Norwich. The team
are most well known for their annual multi-venue music festival Wild Paths, spread across
20+ venues and pop-up stages, championing local acts, hosting two days of music industry
conferences and inviting national and international talent and delegates into the city. Ben also co-founded and now manages and runs the eclectic program of music events at Voodoo Daddy’s a grassroots music venue at the heart of the local and regional music scene.
In 2024 Ben launched Wild Fields, a two-day, 5,000 capacity outdoor music festival that
featured Mercury Music Prize award winners Ezra Collective and won the Best New Festival
award at the UK Festival Awards.
Most recently Ben has joined the programming team at Shambala Festival – a 15,000 capacity camping festival with an eclectic line-up and a pioneering attitude toward sustainability.