Festivals
Liverpool’s festivals including music, art, food and drink festivals
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Krewe Liverpool 2020 – The Mardi Gras Experience: Krewes Announced and How To Get Involved
Krewe Liverpool is a surreal masquerade ball with music, dance, costume and carnival, housed in Sefton Park’s iconic Palm House and ahead of the inaugural event organisers have announced more information about how you can get involved with their surrealist masquerade ball. Traditionally the festivities, balls and parades arranged for the New Orleans’ Mardi Gras were created by social organisations or clubs known as “Krewes”. The term “Krewe” was originally coined by ‘The Mystic Krewe of…
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Cirqadia Circus Festival Coming To Liverpool Next Weekend
Liverpool’s circus pioneers Freefall will be hosting city’s first ever Festival of Contemporary Circus – Cirqadia which runs from 8th – 10th November. Cirqadia is a pioneering weekend of events, produced by Freefall, celebrating the talent of UK based circus performers and providing a platform for new work from performers across the region as well as allowing young people new to circus the opportunity to learn from the professionals. 2019 sees the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall…
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Sound City 2020 Reveals First Wave of Acts for Festival
Sound City, the UK’s leading independent festival and industry conference for emerging music, arts and discovery, returns for its 13th year across Friday May 1st – Sunday 3rd 2020 to launch next year’s festival season in fine style. Tickets go on sale from 10am Friday 25th October. The festival has revealed its first headline artists, the goth-pop champions Pale Waves taking centre stage with their female front-woman, Heather Baron-Gracie, and their music emboldened from last…
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The Dead of Night Film Festival Horror Film Festival To Return In October
The Dead of Night Film Festival is returning for its third year bringing new independent horror short and feature films to the genre loving public of Liverpool. This is a festival made for horror fans by horror fans as a collaboration between Two-Headed Snake Entertainment and The Liverpool Horror Club. The festival will screen 10 short and 6 feature films within the horror genre bracket, there will also be special guests and a whole lot of…
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Scalarama Film Festival 2019 Guide
Scalarama Film Festival is back (1-30 September 2019) celebrating cinema with a mix of classic movies, obscure hidden gems and some fascinating feature length documentaries. This year you can catch screenings of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971), The Help, Moonrise Kingdom, Hairspray, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and so much more. Inspired by the energy and creativity of the legendary Scala Cinema (1978-1993), in 2011 a new festival was created that invited all…
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Royal Albert Dock Food Festival ‘Feast’ Preview
Royal Albert Dock Liverpool has announced its incredible programme of jam-packed activities for its brand new free food and drink festival, FEAST, taking place from 7-8th September 2019. Offering a variety of chef demos, interactive masterclasses, children’s activities and much more spanning over the two days, this festival will showcase the amazing food and drink line up at the Dock, encompassing some of Liverpool’s finest and most innovative independents. Kicking off the festivities on the…
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Future Yard Festival Review
It’s all over to Birkenhead this weekend as we celebrate for the first time the beauty of Future Yard Festival. Tucked away next to the mouth of the Queensway Tunnel is a corner of land that looks out over to Liverpool on one side and North Wales on the other, home to some serious musical talent and of course not forgetting the late John Peel. Jumping off at Hamilton Square it’s a short walk over…
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New Brighton Pirate Fest – August 17 and 18
It’s time to hoist the flags for the New Brighton Pirate Fest – The Battle for Devil’s Nest – is a swashbuckling extravaganza setting sail on the weekend of August 17 and 18. The free, two-day attraction celebrates the history of pirates and much more, including two stunning stars of the sea taking part – a pair of specially created galleons. One will lead the parade and become our entertainment stage. The larger craft will…
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Colours Community Festival Guide
Organisers of Colours Community Festival, a new free family-friendly festival coming to Princes Park this Saturday, have today announced the full programme. Live music, community organisations, street food, entertainment and attractions are on the line-up, with a host of local talent and good causes promising to ‘celebrate what it is to be L8’. Debuting for the first time at the ever-regenerating Princes Park, this initiative is supported by The National Lottery Community Fund, Liverpool City Council’s Mayoral Neighbourhood Fund, Steve Biko Housing Association, Austin…
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Brazilica Festival Returns This July
Brazilica Festival 2019 from Liverpool Carnival Company will feature a packed programme taking over Liverpool’s city streets from Friday 12 – Sunday 14 July. A variety of fringe events including club nights, live music, film programme, workshops and the Carnival Queen competition all form part of this year’s festival. Organisers will be releasing the full line-up over the coming weeks. New for 2019 will see the addition of a Carnival King who, along with this year’s crowned Carnival Queen, will lead the sensational night-time…
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Sound City 2019 Review
Sound City’s best decision was bringing the annual festival back to the city centre and its second year in the Baltic Triangle has proved to be a big success with stand out moments from Liverpool’s own Clean Cut Kid, Salford’s The Lottery Winners and headliner Loyle Carner. Saturday saw a big turnout in the Baltic Triangle and a buzz that typifies the festival, with people (us included) briskly walking from stage to stage to catch the…
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Africa Oyé announce third wave of acts for 2019 festival
The Garifuna Collective from Belize and legendary reggae artist Horace Andy will headline the 27th annual Africa Oyé 2019 festival this summer. Taking place in Liverpool’s Sefton Park on the 22nd and 23rd of June, the music and culture of Africa and the Diaspora will once again take centre stage for two free days of fantastic live performances, DJ sets and multi-arts workshops. Leading the way for this latest announcement, and performing as part of…
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Levi’s® opens up new music studio for Liverpool public in Anfield
As the Levi’s® Music Project 2019 is coming to a close they have announced they will be leaving behind a legacy in Liverpool, with the opening of a brand new recording studio in the heart of Anfield; Liverpool Lighthouse Music Studio. Levi’s® Music Project launched in 2015 as a global platform that partners with the music industry’s most relevant artists, experts and professional educators to provide access to music education for the next generation. For…
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Leasowe Castle To Host Skeleton Coast Music Festival 2019
Leasowe Castle is set to host Wirral’s premier music festival, Skeleton Coast Festival 2019, for the second consecutive year on Saturday, August 31 as part of its ongoing events offering. The 16th century hotel will welcome headline act Miles Kane and artists such as Dream Wife, The Mysterines, The Snuts, The Fernweh and The Peach Fuzz with more to be announced as part of the annual music event. General Manager of Leasowe Castle Mike Dewey…
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Gwenno calls out for the region’s exciting emerging talent to join her at Sound City
Sound City has announced that Gwenno is performing at the festival with a special one-off performance of brand-new works with her producer, Rhys Edwards, and some of the region’s most exciting emerging female talent. Gwenno’s project encourages the exploration of concepts inspired by a sense of place and people, drawing from Liverpool’s rich and varied communities. The five day residency and show are part of an ongoing partnership with Both Sides Now, a pioneering initiative from music…
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Liverpool Threshold Festival 2019
The Threshold Festival of Music and Arts 2019 is almost upon us – having leap-frogged Brexit – and this year it has to be said is simply sensational. Being incorporated into the BBC6 Fringe, the latest and last artistic announcement is an absolute corker! Our very own and very excellent Popped Music are bringing us the mighty “Bang Band Romeo”, but that’s only the icing on the festival cake. Other highlights come thick and fast.…
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Chrissie Hynde, Andy McCluskey and Erin Tonkon Revealed For Sound City+
The countdown is now on for the Sound City festival and its sister conference Sound City+ in Liverpool, creating the most packed edition to date across Friday 3rd– Sunday 5th May. Now the award-winning, independent and champion of new and emerging music is incredibly proud to reveal more amazing guests coming to the city as part of an illuminating, inspiring and enchanting weekend of music, arts, conversation, creativity and exploration. And first up, it…
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LIMF First Wave Line Up Announced
Liverpool International Music Festival (LIMF) has announced hip hop legends De La Soul, chart-topping Ella Eyre and DJ Duo Sigma amongst the line up for 2019’s festival which returns to Sefton Park on 20 & 21 July. Also on the bill is the hugely talented singer-songwriter and rapper Maverick Sabre and electro rnb star NAO. LIMF has also lined up Disco Classical – Camerata Orchestra reworking iconic disco tracks – with special guests Sister Sledge, for…
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Liverpool To Host BBC Radio 6 Music Festival 2019
The BBC Radio 6 Music Festival 2019 will take place in Liverpool in venues across the city from Friday 29 to Sunday 31 March. The line-up features The Good, The Bad & The Queen, Anna Calvi, Jon Hopkins, Hot Chip, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Ex:Re. Plus Little Simz, Bodega, Gang Of Four, Villagers, IDLES, Slowthai, Fontaines D.C., The Cinematic Orchestra, Chali 2na & Krafty Kuts, Jungle and Marika Hackman. Liverpool is a city with music at…
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Sound City+ Announces First Guests For International Music Conference
Sound City+ is returning to Liverpool, offering insight into the biggest secrets and debates in the world of music with events taking place across the whole festival weekend. Launching on Friday 3rd May at the British Music Experience then over the weekend across the Baltic Triangle, the award-winning conference will offer a chance for musicians, industry professionals or anyone with an interest in the music business to get stuck into the big issues and observe some…
