Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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BlackFest: Liverpool’s Black Arts Festival 21 – 27 September
Liverpool’s Black Arts festival, BlackFest heads both online and to city venues this September for a week long programme of diverse and thought-provoking entertainment and events. After two highly successful programmes in 2018 and 2019, BlackFest returns for its third annual festival this autumn with an exciting line up of music, theatre, film, performance, poetry, spoken word and panel discussions; many of them free to stream online. The festival opens on Monday 21st September with Locks, an online discussion about prison systems and racial profiling, featuring…
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Sound City Festival Has Been Cancelled Due To Ongoing Coronavirus Concerns
Sound City Festival has been cancelled for 2020. Read the full statement from the team below. The Sound City team has been forced to cancel this year’s event due to the ongoing concerns with the Coronavirus pandemic. The team released the statement below: We are very sad to say that Sound City 2020 will not be going ahead this year. We have been faced with many challenges over these strange times and have been working…
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Liverpool Arab Arts Festival Goes Digital: 9-18 July
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival goes digital for the first time in its history next week. The UK’s longest running Arab arts festival opens a door into Arab arts and culture from 9 – 18 July, connecting artists and audiences from across the UK. This year’s festival will feature events from Ramallah, Beirut, London, Jerusalem, Morocco, Aleppo, Kuala Lumpur and more. Established in 1998, the festival usually takes place each year in arts and cultural venues…
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Creamfields Announces First Wave of Acts For 2021
Prestige festival Creamfields has announced the first wave of acts confirmed to perform at Creamfields 2021. This is good news for fans of the festival, after the COVID 19 crisis resulted in a global live event shutdown for 2020. This year’s festival would have featured renowned headline artists including The Chainsmokers, Armin van Buuren and Camelphat. The announcement was made via the Creamfields website, with renowned DJ’s such as Martin Garrix, Peggy Gou, Tiësto, deadmau5,…
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Liverpool Drive-In Music Events Cancelled
The series of Liverpool Drive-In Music Events at Liverpool Waters, Central Dock have been cancelled. The concerts have been cancelled as co-organiser Utilita pulled out of the events with concerns over localised lockdowns. Liverpool Waters was set to host a series of huge drive-in gigs and concerts this summer featuring The Zutons, Mike Skinner and The Streets, Gary Numan, Cream Classical Ibiza, Lightning Seeds and Dizzee Rascal. Utilita Live From The Drive-In series of live…
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Band National: The Romans Activity Park Are Throwing The Ultimate Summer Party
Band National: Open Air Party at The Romans Activity Park, Aintree – 11 July The Romans Activity Park in Aintree are throwing a huge open air party this summer with a special one-off live music event. Alongside the music there will be a BBQ and garden party. The line up features exciting and much loved Liverpool talent with acoustic sessions, the hottest upcoming bands and DJs. Each ticket includes entry to the festival, a drink…
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Liverpool Digital Music Festival Huge Lineup Revealed
Liverpool Digital Music Festival 22 – 25 May 2020 Liverpool Digital Music Festival has announced 100 local artists who will be playing the online event between 22 – 25 May. Jamie Webster, Natalie McCool, Spinn, All We Are, Mutant Vinyl and Charity Shop Pop are amongst those who will play as part of the event in support Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust and Save Our Venues from the Music Venue Trust. The all-digital online festival…
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Sound City Online Festival: Saturday 2 May
Sound City online festival will feature Friendly Fires (DJ Set), The Wombats, Red Rum Club, over 30 artists and conference speakers. With this year’s festival postponed until September, Sound City are partnering with the Music Venues Trust #saveourvenues and taking the event online this Saturday with a stellar line-up of artists on streaming platform Guest House. Headliners Friendly Fires will join the party with a DJ set, while The Wombats, Red Rum Club, The Night…
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Bluedot Festival Postponed Until July 2021
The organisers of Bluedot Festival have confirmed that this year’s event will be put back to 22-25 July 2021 due to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus outbreak. All three headliners – Bjork, Metronomy and Groove Armada – have confirmed their appearance on the bill next year with many other artists and speakers from this year’s line-up set to join them. Tickets already purchased will be valid for next year’s festival or alternatively full refunds will be…
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Sound City 2020 Festival Extra Day And More Artists Announced
***Sound City 2020 Cancelled Due To Ongoing Coronavirus Concerns*** Sound City 2020 festival has announcd that it has expanded its re-scheduled event to 25, 26, 27 September. With Friendly Fires headlining on Friday 25 September, Pale Waves on Saturday 26 and Red Rum Club on Sunday 27, the festival will launch on Thursday 24 September with a party at District headlined by Fickle Friends. The Sound City + conference will now include a revised programme…
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Liverpool Festivals Rescheduled Dates Due To Coronavirus
With Coronavirus looking to upset most of our summer plans, we’ve compiled a list of Liverpool festivals rescheduled dates and cancellations. Melon Yellow: Saturday 19 September 2020 Threshold Festival: Postponed until further notice Sound City: 25 – 27 September 2020 Smithdown Road Festival: Postponed until further notice. Smithdown Virtual Festival news TBA LightNight: Postponed until further notice Liverpool Psych Fest (PZYK): Postponed until 15 – 16 May 2021 Baltic Weekender: Postponed until 4 – 5…
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Sound City 2020 Announces New Festival Dates: 25-27 September
Sound City 2020 rearranged dates have been announced due to the Coronavirus outbreak. The festival is now scheduled to take place 25 – 27 September 2020. Returning to the Baltic Triangle for its third year Sound City 2020 edition will feature an exclusive Friendly Fires headline show. Picture the music festival, which was established in 2008 as a sprawling block party where pop-up bars, clubs and warehouses make way for the hottest new music talent…
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Future Yard Festival Announce Series of 2020 Events
The team behind Future Yard Festival has announced Near Future, a pop-up music venue and Birkenhead’s only dedicated live music space. Initially Near Future will be showcasing a series of live events between 25th April – 20th June 2020. It will present some of the most exciting emerging new artists from across the UK – and very special returning local icons. The success of the first Future Yard Festival last year proved that there is…
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Positive Vibration Announce Second Wave of Acts for 2020 Festival
The award-winning celebration of reggae music and Jamaican culture, Positive Vibration Festival has announced even more acts ahead of the festival’s return to the Baltic Triangle, Liverpool on 12 and 13 June 2020. Since its inception in 2016, Positive Vibration Festival of Reggae has established itself as one of the country’s most exciting and eclectic reggae festivals, playing host to internationally renowned bands, legendary sound systems + selectors and some of the brightest new talent.…
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Africa Oyé Announce First Wave of Artists Including Female Supergroup Les Amazones d’Afrique
Africa Oyé have revealed the first three live music acts for their 2020 festival of music and culture in Liverpool. Female pan-African supergroup, Les Amazones D’Afrique, Ghanian highlife stars,Santrofi and Cameroonian songstress Valerie Ekoume will all grace the Sefton Park stage when the festival returns for its 28th annual event on 20th and 21st June, 2020. An all-female collective of West African musicians, Les Amazones D’Afrique made a huge impact across the globe with their 2017 debut album, République Amazone. Singing out against gender…
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LightNight To Return On 15 May With ‘Home’ Theme
LightNight will return on Friday 15 May, once again keeping the doors to the city’s unique venues, museums and galleries open late to celebrate the arts and culture scene in Liverpool. LightNight is Liverpool’s one-night arts festival giving visitors the chance to see the city in a new light. The event presents new and ambitious artistic commissions amidst a vibrant programme of more than 100 events happening across the city. There’s everything from large-scale light…
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Cream Classical 2020 Lineup Announced
Cream Classical 2020 has announced the lineup for its return to Sefton Park on 18 July. The 2020 edition will include DJ sets from Basement Jaxx, Faithless and Leftfield. There will also be appearances from Cream legends including David Morales, Roger Sanchez, Danny Rampling, Seb Fontaine, John Kelly, Tall Paul, Paul Bleasdale and Andy Carroll. One of the highlights of the event will be the 50-piece Kaleidoscope Orchestra – an orchestra made for the 21st…
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Africa Oyé Needs Your Help To Keep The Festival Free
The organisers of Liverpool’s Africa Oyé have called upon local investors and the people of Liverpool to help keep the festival free. From its humble beginnings in 1992 as a series of gigs in the city centre, Oyé has showcased the finest in African and Caribbean music in the likes of Concert Square, Princes Park and even across the water in Birkenhead. The festival made Sefton Park its home in 2005, where it has since…
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Björk, Groove Armada and Metronomy To Headline Bluedot Festival 2020
Bluedot Festival 2020 has released the first wave of artists with Björk, Groove Armada and Metronomy headlining the fifth instalment of the award-winning music, science and culture event at Cheshire’s iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory taking place 23–26 July 2020. One of the most influential and ground-breaking musicians of all time, Björk’s festival exclusive set will close bluedot with a uniquely commissioned performance alongside Manchester’s famed Halle Orchestra featuring incredible bespoke projections on the Lovell Telescope.…
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Threshold Festival Announces First Wave of Artists Including Nick Ellis and Empathy Test
Threshold Festival looks set to go out on a high with the final instalment of the grassroots music festival taking place on 3-4 April. The festival organisers announced the first wave of acts for the two-day event which takes place across venues in the Baltic Triangle. Accomplished musician and story teller Nick Ellis, urban pop artist Chinchilla and electro pop outfit Empathy Test are some of the highlights from the announement. Barberos, The Lutras, TEE,…
