Author: Jack Needham

The four-day market town festival will also welcome blues act The Cinelli Brothers, Errol Linton and Brit Funk Association.

Ashley Peniston-Bird, founder and director of Smoke & Fire Festival, speaks on how a charity fundraiser became one of the UK’s biggest food weekenders.

Togather says that the two businesses will “bring more than 60 event experts together on a single combined F&B [food and beverage] offer.”

The former AEG Presents VP and general manager brings over 20 years of live entertainment and festival experience to the company.

Rachel Sermanni, Alan Bissett presents When Billy Met Alisdair and more amongst first names for the arts and culture festival.

Vicky Parsons, co-founder and director of Let Loose Festival, on doing the unthinkable – creating a new festival for 2026.

The debut announcement is the first wave in a programme that will feature 3,000 artists across over 200 venues.

Electronic music festival Defqon.1, Garorock in France and Belgium’s Paradise City were all impacted by extreme weather events.

The free festival brings sports activities, live music, theatre, food and drink together across four days.

The two festivals will share the theme of SOFT POWER, with no two performances being repeated between the two cities.