Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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DaDa Marks 40 Years of Cutting-Edge Disability Arts Action With DaDa International 40
Liverpool-based pioneering disability and Deaf arts-led organisation DaDa is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The award-winning, cutting-edge multi artform charity was founded in 1984 and since then has become an integral part of the campaign for greater equality and access for disabled artists across the arts and cultural sector. It develops and presents excellent disability and Deaf arts through an artistic programme that includes high quality festivals and events, fed in to by a year-round programme of engagement…
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Soulside Music Festival: The Real Thing, Odyssey, Craig Charles and The Drifters To Play
Time to dig out the flares, jumpsuits and sequins as Soulside Music Festival is set to take over BOXPARK Liverpool at the Brewery Village in the Baltic Triangle on Saturday 23 November for an epic 12 hours of live entertainment with music from some of the biggest Soul and Motown artists from the 70’s, 80’s and the 90’s. Local legends The Real Thing will perform some of their greatest hits including You To Me Are Everything,…
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Live Review: No Play Festival 2024
In its second year, No Play Festival presented a diverse musical landscape, featuring a heavier lineup of local talent and international bands spanning from punk to deathcore. This year’s festival was a whirlwind of raw emotion and aggression, with every band pushing the limits of live performance. The crowd was electrified by brutal breakdowns and relentless circle pits, making the festival feel like an unstoppable force of nature. At the heart of this musical earthquake…
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New Liverpool Festival ‘Favourite Days’ Adds The Howlers, ARXX, Balancing Act + More To Line Up
As Favourite Days prepares for its grand debut this Autumn – the Liverpool festival has revealed a slew of new names who will be performing at its stages across the city. On 7 November, The Howlers, will headline the Kaz Stockroom. Receiving a raft of rave reviews for their recent Top 30 charting debut ‘What You’ve Got to Lose to Win It All’, the London desert-rockers have solidified their place as one of the UK’s most…
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Royal Albert Dock Announces Lineup For Free Bank Holiday Festival, Soundbites
As part of its packed programme for Festival of Summer, Royal Albert Dock Liverpool has announced the full lineup for its new free music, food and drink festival, Soundbites. From 2pm, three micro stages will pop up across the estate this bank holiday Saturday and Sunday with visitors able to hear feel-good tunes in Mermaid Courtyard, Britannia Courtyard and in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Building. Enjoy performances from headliners, Casino (@casino_band_) at…
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La Feria Festival Returns To Celebrate Latin American Culture In Liverpool
Luma Creations is delighted to announce the 6th annual La Feria Festival in Liverpool, a vibrant celebration of the beauty and diversity of Latin American culture. Running from 10 – 15 September, the city will come alive with music, dance, theatre, art, and food, offering an immersive experience embodying the essence of Latin America, across a series of iconic venues. This year’s festival promises a thrilling array of events and activities that highlight the rich cultural…
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Festival of Summer Comes To Royal Albert Dock With Music, Food & Drink Festivals Taking Place
Having kicked off summer in style with a weekend of jam-packed colourful Pride celebrations, Royal Albert Dock Liverpool is continuing its programme of feel-good activities throughout August with its ‘Festival of Summer’. Offering a brand new music, food and drink festival, family-friendly activities and the perfect summer selfie spots, it’s all here on Liverpool’s iconic waterfront. At the centre of the festivities is Soundbites, the dock’s new festival showcasing some of Liverpool’s finest musical talents…
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Milap Announce Autumn Season of Indian Music And Culture, Including Diwali Celebration
Following the successful return of their bi-annual INDIKA Festival last November, Milap have announced an Autumn 2024 season of Indian Arts & Culture, taking place across Merseyside from September. Showcasing some of India’s most acclaimed musicians, alongside both established and emerging talent from the UK, the city region will also enjoy an expanded programme of Diwali celebrations, featuring Visual Art, Food, and more. The opening show sees Milap take a short trip across the Mersey,…
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Free Family Festival, Last Days of Summer, Coming To Liverpool Waterfront
As summer 2024 comes to a close, a new free family festival on Liverpool’s famous waterfront will bring the city together to celebrate. The Last Days of Summer will be held on Saturday 31 August and is organised by Liverpool BID Company, Culture Liverpool, Royal Albert Dock Liverpool and Peel. Watersport sessions, Swan pedalos, Silent adventure tours, street performances, music and more will fill Liverpool’s waterfront as the programme for The Last Days of Summer…
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New Liverpool Festival ‘Favourite Days’ Revealed Featuring Yard Act, Sprints, Casisdead & More
Taking over an array of iconic music haunts in the heart of Liverpool, Favourite Days, is a unique multi-venue festival inviting some of the best and brightest acts from the UK and beyond to the city between 6 – 10 November. Promising five days of unmissable curated gigs, Favourite Days will be hosting a total of 12 individual shows with over 35+ acts due to star across its choice line-ups. And today the festival has announced the first bands who will be…
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Acid Klaus & YOBS Announced For Penny Lane Weekender Festival
The Penny Lane Weekender team have announced the next wave of acts for this summer’s festival, including Sheffield based Acid Klaus, the latest venture from Adrian Flanagan of The Moonlandingz and Eccentric Research Council, with his new electronic music project. It is sure to be an unmissable performance. They’ve also confirmed that Liverpool garage rock band YOBS will be playing. The Liverpool four piece have recently released their self titled debut album on the Fuzz Club label. They’re going to be…
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No Play Festival Returns This September
No Play Festival is back and, this time, it’s taking over Liverpool city centre. With three stages including the newly reopened Arts Club along with EBGBS and The Jacaranda, No Play promises to once again bring the best alternative artists to Britain’s iconic music city. After bursting on to the UK festival scene last summer with a line up that included YONAKA, VUKOVI, Higher Power and Conjurer alongside an incredibly special secret set from local…
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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival Returns This July
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival (LAAF) – the longest running festival of Arab arts and culture in the UK – returns for its 22nd year, from 12 – 21 July. LAAF exists to support and champion creatives from across the Arab region and its diaspora, in the belief that art and creativity have the power to express a shared humanity. The festival will celebrate Liverpool’s unique identity; a city, with a global community and brimming with…
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Liverpool Post Punk Band Pleasure Island Announce The Penny Lane Weekender 2024
Pleasure Island are pleased to announce the first artists for the Penny Lane Weekender, which is taking place on the 2 – 4 August 2024 across several venues on Penny Lane. this is the second year the festival has taken place and it is set to become an annual event. The first acts to be announced are Alien Izz, Astles, Austerity Dogs, Benno, Bleach Brain, COW, Dreampark, Drew Friel, Dynastain, ELLiS-D, Evil Pink Machine, Kingsley Beat, Lazygirl, Ming…
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Floral Pavillion Announces New Folk On The Coast Festival Coming To New Brighton
Floral Pavilion, a multi-space entertainment venue in New Brighton, is thrilled to announce the launch of a brand-new folk festival called Folk on the Coast. This weekend-long event is set to take place from 13 – 15 September and promises an eclectic mix of intimate shows with pioneers of the genre as well as tomorrow’s rising stars. The first wave of artists has been announced and includes Martin Carthy, Martin Simpson, The Bar-Steward Sons of…
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Craft Brew Festival With Unlimited Beer Is Coming To Liverpool
A first of its kind craft beer festival that offers unlimited beer is coming to Invisible Wind Factory on Friday 21 and Saturday 22 June 2024. Craft Brew Festival is now in its second year, after sell out events in Manchester and Birmingham in 2023, and comes to Liverpool for the first time this summer. The beer extravaganza features 15 different brewers, street food, live music and unlimited drinks for each 5 hour event. From…
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Catfish And The Bottlemen To Headline Sefton Park This July
Multi Platinum-selling, BRIT Award-winning, arena-filling giants Catfish and the Bottlemen‘s epic return continues to hit new heights with the announcement of a massive outdoor show on Thursday 11 July in Liverpool’s stunning Sefton Park. One of the largest outdoor concerts the city of Liverpool has ever seen, the 32,000 capacity site promises to be the biggest headline show of the band’s career to date. Tickets will be on general sale at 10:00 BST this Friday 19 April. Sign up…
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BOOT MUSIC Magazine Announce First Ever ‘BOOT FEST’
Merseyside’s independent music magazine BOOT MUSIC has announced the first ever ‘BOOT FEST’ event which will see a selection of the region’s most exciting new Indie and Alternative acts take to the stage at Future Yard, Birkenhead, on 29 June to celebrate the release of their 7th print issue. The line up will feature fast rising Alternative outfit Shefu, lively Indie acts The Sukis, Juno and Toy Car plus captivating singer-songwriter Georgia Johnson. BOOT MUSIC…
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Africa Oyé Announces Julian Marley & Les Amazones d’Afrique As 2024 Festival Headliners
The son of music legend Bob Marley and a female supergroup will headline the acclaimed Africa Oyé Festival this summer. The powerful and creative force of Les Amazones d’Afrique will close proceedings on Saturday 22nd June, whilst Julian Marley, fresh off his Grammy win for Best Reggae Album earlier this month, tops the bill on Sunday with his band, The Uprising. The country’s biggest celebration of African and Caribbean music and culture is returning to Liverpool’s Sefton Park in 2024 following…
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Sound City Announce More Acts, New-Look Conference & Sponsors For 2024 Festival
Sound City is set to land in force this May with another essential weekend pointing towards the future of new music into 2024 and beyond. With even more unmissable artists confirmed across the weekend and news of a new-look and industry-leading conference programme there’s plenty to get excited about. Sound City Forum Sound City Forum is a fresh new voice in the music industry landscape bringing together those working across the music industry, artists, entrepreneurs…
