Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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Festival No.6 Review
Festival No.6 returned for its sixth year last weekend with a packed music, arts and cultural feast in the picturesque Welsh village of Portmeirion. It’s a festival that brings something refreshing to the festival scene with the unique surroundings of the village, Castell Park and Gardens, seafront and woodlands, there’s something to discover around every turn. The Castell Gardens could be described as the most typical part of the festival, home to the main stage…
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CHIC & Nile Rogers Announced As First Headliners For Liverpool Music Week
Liverpool Music Week has announced CHIC & Nile Rogers as headliners for the opening night of this year’s festival with a special show taking place at the Echo Arena. The legendary disco band will kick off the 15th anniversary of the festival in style, after a hugely popular set at this year’s Glastonbury Music Festival. Liverpool Music Week was recently crowned Best Metropolitan Festival at The UK Festival Awards 2016 and and the Opening Night…
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Hope & Glory Festival Announce Even More Acts Ahead Of This Weekend’s Event
With less than a week to go until Hope & Glory Fest takes over the city centre, organisers have announced even more exciting editions and surprises to an already spectacular array of live music and entertainment taking place across the weekend of the 4th, 5th and 6th of August. Kicking off the festival the ‘not so’ secret free gig will see the previously announced Black Grape joined by Liverpool’s very own Cast on Friday 4th August at St. George’s…
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Liverpool Loves 2017 Full Music Line-Up Announced
Liverpool Loves organisers Orb CIC recently announced the first wave of acts confirmed for this year’s festival, and they are now excited to reveal the full music line-up. The countdown is on to the third annual Liverpool Loves festival next weekend, when fantastic music, family fun and activities take over the city centre on Saturday 5 August and Sunday 6 August. The full weekend music programme now includes a headline performance from Liverpool singer songwriter Robert Vincent, who will appear on the Main Stage in…
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Liverpool Loves Expands As Liverpool One Is Named Second Festival Location
Organisers of Summer festival Liverpool Loves have confirmed Liverpool ONE as a second new festival site for 2017. The award-winning event is on the move, and this year it will be located in the heart of the city for the very first time. This is the third consecutive year of Liverpool Loves, which takes place on Saturday 5 August and Sunday 6 August. Organisers Orb CIC are thrilled to reveal that the family, community and well-being festival programme and activities will be located at host venue, Liverpool ONE. Liverpool Loves will take place…
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Liverpool’s Iconic Buildings Light Up Rainbow Colours As Part of Liverpool Pride
Liverpool Pride will shine a light on diversity again this summer with the return of the stunning project Come Out of the Shadows. Pride organisers are appealing for as many of Liverpool’s most iconic buildings, venues and city businesses as possible to join the event and be lit up in the colours of the iconic Rainbow Flag – helping make Liverpool the most visibly LGBT+ city in the UK. Last year Come Out of the Shadows grabbed the public’s imagination as more than 30 of…
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Brazilica Festival Announce Music Programme
Brazilica Festival has revealed the first names in a magnificent musical line-up which will have Liverpool carnival goers Samba-ing on the city street this summer. Some of the most exciting and talented musicians from home and abroad are set to bring the pulsating sounds of the Latin American beat to the banks of the Mersey thanks to Liverpool’s International Samba Festival. The historic Pier Head on the city’s world heritage waterfront will be transformed by colourful carnival action…
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Hope & Glory Festival Preview & One’s To Watch
HOPE & GLORY Festival launches this summer boasting an impressive 12,500 capacity event in the heart of Liverpool, with the stunning Victorian backdrop of the World Museum, City Library and St.George’s Hall and St.John’s Gardens. Try to imagine your favourite bands, huge tunes, combined with a decadent Victoriana carnival, wicked fun, with a heavy dose of outrageous sideshows, and you’ll begin to get a picture of what HOPE & GLORY Festival is. A festival of proper…
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Free Dance, Music & Instrument Workshops At Africa Oyé’s Anniversary Festival
Liverpool’s leading world dance company Movema are back to rock Africa Oyé’s 25th anniversary festival with a bumper Active Zone full of free workshops for all ages. The Oyé Active Zone is FREE and open to everyone with the whole cultural programme focused on promoting health and wellbeing, learning and participation. Liverpool dance company Movema will be teaching the latest African dance moves for 2017 and young dancers can put their moves to the test in the Unlock…
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Award-Winning Positive Vibration Festival Returns This Weekend
Liverpool’s award-winning celebration of reggae music and Jamaican heritage returns in this weekend – 9th & 10th June – for a jam-packed weekend of cultural appreciation and positivity. Winner of Best New Festival – UK Festival Awards, Positive Vibration is set to be even bigger and better in 2017. Taking place over the 9th and 10th June 2017 in various venues across the Baltic Triangle, the festival will play host to a plethora of internationally renowned bands, legendary sound systems & selectors,…
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Africa Oyé Announce Main Stage Running Order
Africa Oyé have revealed the running order for their Main Stage acts ahead of the 25th Anniversary Festival on June 17th and 18th in Sefton Park. The host of international stars such as Mokoomba and Max Romeo are complemented by local acts, Nutribe & Butcha B as well as Anwar Ali & Dave Owen and there are also welcome returns from Liverpool community acts such as drumming troupe Beatlife. To keep Sefton Park moving in between the main…
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Liverpool Disco Festival Returns Sat 7th October; Tickets Go On Sale This Week
The Liverpool Disco Festival is back, once more taking place across the renascent Baltic Triangle district of the city. The action takes place on Saturday October 7th, and will bring together some of the most iconic global names together from the disco, house, garage, soul and funk spectrums for one magical day and night. Liverpool Disco Festival is a celebration of all things soulful, seductive and scintillating, and following on from May’s epic collaboration with…
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Becky Hill, M.O, Jessie Reyez & More Join The LIMF 2017 Line Up
She Drew The Gun, The Vryll Society, ZuZu, the twenty LIMF Academy ‘Class Of 2017’ and more also announced for the fifth anniversary . Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) has announced the final acts for its 2017 Summer Jam line-up at Sefton Park with Becky Hill, M.O, Jessie Reyez, She Drew The Gun, The Vryll Society, Zuzu, Paris Youth Foundation, Pixey, Pink Kink, Jo Mary, Charlie Straw and the 20 LIMF Academy ‘Class Of 2017’ joining the likes of the…
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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…
