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The 18-day festival brings GRIT Orchestra, The Saw Doctors, a unique collaboration between Ye Vagabonds and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and more to Scotland.
“Large-scale greenfield music festivals can no longer ignore gigantism,” says the forthcoming peer-reviewed paper.
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Dexta Daps, Wayne Wonder and Stefflon Don will play the festival on 31 May 2027.
The 25,000-person capacity festival will take place on 29-31 July 2027 at the Belladrum Estate near Beauly in the Scottish Highlands.
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The NQ founder and CEO tells us all about his new partnership with global dance titans Creamfields.
See you next year.
Festival-goers are changing. They don’t want mud, but mimosa-fuelled comfort. This is why, and how, festivals are reacting.
As reliably as day turns to night, it seems with each passing week comes the…
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Industry news and updates from Festival Insights
The UK-wide research project that will examine the lived experiences of women working within the events industry.
Archie Wilkinson, CEO and co-founder of Lifesaver Power, believes festivals don’t succeed through entertainment value alone, but how effectively they can remove friction from the audience experience.
Customers who buy a tent this summer and return it by 6 September can get a 50% refund of the original purchase price or the full value back as a gift card.
The conference and music showcase says it welcomed 250 acts and 434 delegates for its 2026 event.
Tim Holmes, COO of Kaboodle & Country Manager for Weezevent UK, on the power of festival data.
The TagMix CCO speaks on the changing nature of social media and how FOMO is driving ticket sales.
Charlie Austen, broker at the event insurance company Vento, shares the hows and whys a festival may be able to avoid a Ye-esque controversy.
INTERVIEWS
Teddy Rocks, winners of the 2023 Sarah Nulty Community Impact Award is…
Nurturing the live careers of acts is a role that is crucial…
When Worcester local, John Simons, received a grave cancer diagnosis, his family’s…
World News
The Australian state’s government in partnership with Music Victoria provides grants for 16 festivals totalling more than A$640,000
Headline acts ANOTR, Adriatique, SG Lewis, Jennifer Loveless and more named for the festival’s second outing.
