UK: The multi award-winning family arts festival Just So will have a new programme of events centred on food and sustainability in 2017. Now in its 8th year and recently awarded Best Festival by the National Outdoor Events Association, Just So is an annual, intimate, weekend-long festival – one that claims to be the only arts camping festival in the UK dedicated solely to children and their families. The extensive food offerings will include insect eating and foraging activities, plus the Just So Jelly Fight, Jellybean architecture challenges, Vegetable Skittles, Vegetable Juggling and Vegetable Jenga. Attendees can make and play…
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ITALY: Kappa FuturFestival is set to return for its sixth edition from July 8 – 9 in Turin. Already recognised as one of the most successful techno gatherings in Europe, 2017’s edition of the festival will once again see DJs and live acts like Carl Cox, Sasha & Digweed and Sven Vath play across three outdoor stages in the futuristic Parco Dora. With a famously keen and cosmopolitan crowd that last year amounted to 40,000 people from all over Europe, Kappa FuturFestival prides itself on world class audio systems, high quality production and a keen attention to detail. Kappa FuturFestival…
Corinne Lane is the Senior Co-ordinator of the National Event Welfare Service. The service was formed in 1995, and provides welfare support to events large and small across the UK. Corinne is a qualified and highly experienced psychotherapist, although she has now retired from private practice and focuses solely on her event work. It was August Bank Holiday weekend in 1987 and although I’d been to festivals at Donington Park a couple of times, when I was accepted to work as part of the security crew at Reading Festival at the tender age of 20, I was over the moon.…
UK / CANADA: The UK based Crowd Connected and Canadian app vendor Greencopper have extended their existing partnership to provide enhanced location based services to Greencopper’s portfolio of music event clients. Greencopper, recently listed in Fast Company’s annual ranking of The World’s 10 Most Innovative Companies in Live Events, has licensed Crowd Connected’s market-leading geo-behavioural audience segmentation engine to power its in-app messaging capabilities. The integration enables Greencopper’s event clients to curate and trigger communications based on a person’s activity history, not simply their proximity to a fixed location – surpassing existing solutions that typically depend on the use of…
Born out of the vision of Chris and Kaya Carney seven years ago, Threshold Festival is a dedicated platform for emerging music and visual arts hosted in the flourishing hub of Liverpool’s creative industries, The Baltic Triangle. ‘Grassroots’ is the operative word not just in the festival’s programming remit but in its organisation; registered as a Community Interest Company, Threshold’s small team comprises a range of passionate individuals brought together through shared interests and circumstance. This organic ethos – where the prospect of profit is decidedly secondary to doing cool stuff – is something that attracts volunteers and fans alike,…
UK: To mark Colston Hall’s 150th anniversary and the launch of the Bristol Harbour Festival Weekend, plans have been revealed for a special outdoor performance featuring some of the UK’s best musicians and special guests at the Lloyd’s Amphitheatre on July 21. Following the success of the sold-out Goldie and the Heritage Orchestra gig in the Amphitheatre in 2015, Colston Hall will once again present a celebratory party of orchestral proportions featuring The Outlook Orchestra. Launching the Bristol Harbour Festival weekend, the 20-piece Outlook Orchestra will perform a 100 minute live mix celebrating some of the biggest tracks heard across…
UK: Set to take place on August 5, Eastern Electrics has revealed the hosts of its eight stages, featuring new additions Knee Deep In Sound and iconic label Defected Records, plus the long awaited return of Skreamizm, Rinse FM, Viva Warriors, Star of EE, Tropical Tea Party and a VIP area hosted by Jocks and Nerds. These partners will entertain attendees in the best of house, techno, disco, garage, bass and more, plus lots of onsite activities. As ever, the main stage is hosted by Eastern Electrics themselves. Last year saw a surprise Tuskegee B2B with Seth Troxler and The…
CROATIA: After announcing Pan-Pot, Rødhåd, Stephan Bodzin and more at the beginning of February, the brand new Croatian festival Labyrinth Open has now revealed the full line-up for the inaugural edition from July 8 – 11. Taking place at the beachfront location of Kamp Galeb in Omis, the boutique festival will welcome international acts such as Dubfire, Lee Foss, Guti, Fur Coat and Andrea Oliva, as well as offering a varied event programme which includes a music conference and an exclusive party on a private island. Aiming to transform the Croatian resort into a chic yet affordable creative hub, Labyrinth…
UK: Liverpool’s award-winning celebration of reggae music and Jamaican heritage, Positive Vibration, will return on June 9 for a weekend of music, art, and workshops. Headlining this year’s festival will be legendary 2 Tone band, The Selecter, and king of the sound system, Jah Shaka. This year sees the return of The Art of Reggae Exhibition, a collaboration between Positive Vibration and the International Reggae Poster Contest (IRPC). The exhibition, which supports the Alpha Boys School in Jamaica, will showcase 100 reggae-inspired posters, designed by illustrators and artists from all over the world. Attendees will also be able to bid…
WORLDWIDE: MelodyVR and Universal Music Group (UMG) have announced an agreement to co-produce and distribute virtual reality music experiences that will be available on MelodyVR, featuring artists from Universal Music’s substantial roster. Ranging from sell-out concerts and live performances to immersive music videos and intimate behind-the-scenes content, these interactive experiences will provide fans with otherwise unobtainable access to the world’s most popular artists. MelodyVR will make these experiences available on all major virtual reality and mobile devices through its VR music platform, when it launches later this year. Anthony Matchett, CEO of MelodyVR, said: “We’re incredibly excited to announce our…