Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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PreckyFest Preview
Merseyside music festival to mark the ten year anniversary of The Steve Prescott Foundation. After receiving surgery to remove tumors following a diagnosis of pseudomyxoma peritonei, a rare form of cancer, in 2006 Steve Prescott began rising money for charity. This led to the formation of The Steve Prescott Foundation which has to date raised over one million pounds for Try Assist (formally The Rugby League Benevolent Fund) and The Christie Hospital. Before his death…
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The Countdown Is On For The First Ever New Brighton Seaside Festival
With the end of May coming swiftly over the horizon, the countdown is now on for a big, exciting attraction to sail into the shores of New Brighton. There’s just over a week to go until the first ever New Brighton Seaside Festival will make a huge splash – transforming the town into one huge seaside extravaganza like no other. Coming to the Wirral resort this Spring Bank Holiday, the festival brings three days of seaside fun for everyone! The festival…
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Liverpool Loves Is Back And On Tour To The City-Centre
The award-winning festival Liverpool Loves will return to the city this Summer. Liverpool’s best loved, feel-good festival will take place on Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th August – with the main stage zone being held in Derby Square at the heart of the Commercial District, under the gaze of the Queen Victoria monument. Festival director, Josh Boyd said: “After the continued success of last year’s event – and picking up a nomination for Best Small Tourism Event once again – we’re excited to be…
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Liverpool International Music Festival Announces LIMF Academy Class of 2017-2018
Twenty Merseyside-based artists and bands have been chosen to showcase their talent at LIMF Summer Jam 2017 and take part in the LIMF Academy Programme, with three securing a spot on the Academy’s award winning 12 month Elite Talent Development Programme. The three ‘most ready’ artists, which boasts an all female roster, including Gazelle, Mary Miller and Remée, have been hand picked for a place on the award winning LIMF Academy Elite Talent Development Programme that offers career support and…
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Africa Oyé: Call For Volunteers Ahead of Festival In June
Africa Oye are looking for volunteers to assist them in their efforts to keep the event free- by interacting with the public and collecting donations. They are asking for just two hours (or more) of your time. Besides raising funds Volunteers are tasked with selling raffle tickets, handing out general information and conversing with the fantastic array of festival-goers that turnout each year. For your time you will receive a t-shirt, refreshments and be helping…
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New York’s DJ Stretch Armstrong To Bring ‘No Sleep’ To LIMF 2017
The legendary DJ Stretch Armstrong will be bringing his ‘No Sleep’ show to the Liverpool International Music Festival for LIMF Presents. Joined by New York City’s hip-hop stalwarts and tastemakers, Kool DJ Red Alert, DJ Clark Kent, Jungle Brothers and Slick Rick at Liverpool’s Palm House on Sunday 23rd Julyfor a celebration of New York’s prolific hip hop scene, exploring sounds from the 80’s and 90’s. Tickets cost £19.80 (including fees), for more information visit www.limfestival.com. Few people can claim to have had a…
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Liverpool Sound City 2017 – 10th Anniversary Festival Preview
With each passing year since its inception in 2008, Liverpool Sound City has only grown in stature – and this time around looks to celebrate its 10th anniverasry with a move to Clarence Dock and the most star-studded line up yet. As well as showcasing some of the best emerging talent locally and from across the country, the festival continues to prove itself capable of drawing more ‘heavyweight’ acts to its stage. The likes of The…
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Liverpool Disco Festival – 30 Years of Southport Weekender Set Times & Site Map
After its spectacular debut last October, the Liverpool Disco Festival returns in May 2017, this time uniting with the Southport Weekender across their 30th anniversary year, set across the renascent Baltic Triangle district of the city. Bringing together some of the most iconic global names together from the disco, house, garage, soul and funk spectrum for one magical day and night, Liverpool Disco Festival is a celebration of all things soulful, seductive and scintillating. The…
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World Premiere of ‘Garage Classical’ Live With A 40 Piece Orchestra At LIMF 2017
In a world premiere, DJ Spoony will present a UK Garage classics live with the backing of the 40 piece RNCM Session Orchestra as part of the LIMF Presents programme in 2017. As the performance curator, he will be joined for an unforgettable experience by UK Garage legends Kele Le Roc, Elizabeth Troy, Lonyo, Master Of Ceremonies, Lifford, Richie Dan, Nay Nay and Sweet Female Attitude, with additional performances on the evening from So Solid Crew, Donaeo,…
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Physical Fest Brings Williamson Square To Life With Colourful Street Theatre This Bank Holiday
Now in its 13th year. Liverpool’s international physical theatre festival is the only festival in Europespecialising solely in physical theatre and the Street Theatre Day line-up has now been announced. Catch Highly Sprung’s acclaimed performance Urban Astronaut between 12 noon to 2pm. It is a walkabout and physical theatre performance that provides glimpse of a future that might be… Where problems surrounding air pollution have grown to a crisis point, is there any way back? The answer is found in a simple encounter with a young girl…
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Liverpool’s Award-Winning Reggae Festival Returns With The Selecter & Jah Shaka
Liverpool’s award-winning celebration of reggae music and Jamaican heritage, Positive Vibration, returns in June for a jam-packed weekend of cultural appreciation and positivity. Winner of ‘Best New Festival’ at the UK Festival Awards 2016, Positive Vibration will play host to a plethora of internationally renowned bands, legendary sound systems & selectors, a Reggae Q&A, creative workshops, a record fair & market, and plenty of tasty Caribbean food & drink. Headlining this year’s festival will be…
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Pop-Up Film Festival Will Be Taking Over Smithdown Road’s Handyman Supermarket
Liverpool’s Empty Spaces Cinema will be taking over Wavertree’s Handyman Supermarket on 6th & 7th May for The Hammer and Nail Pop-Up Film Festival. The not-for-profit organisation will host a series of screenings in the location of the former Sefton Park Picturedrome, before the Handyman Supermarket is turned into a microbrewery and pub. The back room space that will be used for the screenings can seat up to 50 people. Chris from Empty Spaces Cinema…
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New North West Festival Announced Featuring The Coral, The Sugarhill Gang & More
Cotton Clouds Festival At Saddleworth Cricket Club, Lancashire, 12th August 2017. Featuring a stacked line up and set amidst the heavenly vista of the stunning Peak District National Park, Cotton Clouds is a wonderful new addition to the UK festival scene. Taking place on 12th of August and boasting a bill that’s simply bursting with pop pedigree, the one-day extravaganza in Saddleworth (Greater Manchester) will host radiant performances from the likes of The Coral, The Sugarhill Gang, Nick Heyward, The…
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New Photography Exhibition & Live Music Festival Announced For The Summer
Shout About It Live will host a hybrid festival of photography and live music in the Baltic Triangle’s District venue on Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th August. The music line up is looking huge with The Cheap Thrills, Astles, Silent Cities, Eleanor Nelly, LUCA, Brothers of Mine, Cal Ruddy, Motherhood, Wildfires, Black Mountain Lights, Sly Antics, The Buffalo Riot, Riviera and Diamonds In The Dark all announced to play. Shout About It is primarily a…
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Skeleton Coast Festival Line Up 2017
Skeleton Coast festival returns to the Hoylake Community Centre this year after a successful debut last summer. Skeleton Coast is the brainchild of Skeleton Key Records – an independent record label founded by The Coral’s James Skelly. After it’s inaugural event last August which saw the likes of The Wytches, Marvin Powell, She Drew The Gun, Wicked Whispers, Psycho Comedy and The Floormen amongst the lineup they return with another impressive bill. Arguably one of…
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New Brighton Seaside Festival Announces Mouthwatering Food & Drink Programme
New Brighton Seaside Festival organisers Orb Events, have announced a little taster of the food and drink programme to whet festival goers’ appetites. The first large scale seaside festival of its kind in the area, the weekender taking place over the Spring Bank Holiday (27-29 May) promises to dish up cocktail of amazing street food, chef demos and fun foodie activities for little chefs to get involved in. There will be a hive of fun foodie activities taking…
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Smithdown Road Festival Announces More Acts For Showcase of Music, Art, Food & Dance
With just a few weeks to go until the annual free Smithdown Road festival, there is no doubting that the program of events has grown considerably this year – and that festival goers are in for a brilliant weekend of music, art, food and dance. Perhaps the biggest news of all is that due to the overwhelming popularity of last year’s festival, there will be a huge outdoor area on the Saturday and Sunday to be held…
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Liverpool Food, Drink & Lifestyle Spring Festival; Saturday 15th – Sunday 16th April
Back for its third year is the sunnier sister of The Liverpool Food & Drink Festival, held on Easter Weekend in Sefton Park. Foodies will be impressed by the wide variety of sweet & sour stalls, displaying their best creations, whilst there will also be numerous opportunities to grab a drink, hopefully in the sunshine! Food stalls at the festival will include Neon Jamon, Mela Street Food, Little Furnace, Reds True BBQ, The Interesting Eating…
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Baltic Weekender Announce First Wave of Acts
This June, The Baltic Triangle sees a new cultural event take over their venues, as Abandon Silence and 24 Kitchen Street join forces to celebrate the musical diversity that the area has become renowned for. It’s not been easy for The Baltic Triangle recently; with property developers plans guaranteed to have a negative impact on the alternative venues, the guys behind the driving forces of the alternative music scene in Liverpool have teamed up, promising…
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New Brighton Seaside Festival Full Line-Up Announced
Orb Events have announced the full music line-up for New Brighton Seaside Festival. Man and the Echo, The Shipbuilders, Marc Kenny and Nick Ellis are among the artists performing during the inaugural three-day event in May. The fantastic festival will take place over the Spring Bank Holiday, 27th – 29th May at Fort Perch Rock, New Brighton Beach, Marine Lakeand Promenade in New Brighton. Headlining the Saturday night is Man and the Echo. Their debut album skirts numerous musical signposts, spanning the likes of The Smiths, Dexys, Pulp, 50/60s crooning,…
