Best festival guide for 2024

Sum­mer is breath­ing its last, and we’re near­ly at the end of out­door fes­ti­val sea­son. We’re com­pil­ing our autumn and win­ter fes­ti­val guide to pro­vide inspi­ra­tion and joy dur­ing the cold­er months.  Mucky Week­ender 5–7 Sep­tem­ber Tak­ing place at ‘Vic­arage Farm’, Win­ches­ter, Mucky Week­ender’s fifth edi­tion fea­tures five music stages with dub, ska, reg­gae, jungle,…

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Best festivals for 2023: the list

Ahh fes­ti­val sea­son! It’s not long now and we can’t wait. Here’s our fes­ti­val cal­en­dar for the sum­mer. All of those fea­tured still have lim­it­ed tick­ets avail­able. Peo­ple may be being a bit care­ful due the cost of liv­ing cri­sis but sales are nonethe­less healthy, so if there’s a fes­ti­val you’ve got your eye on,…

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Review: Gwyl 2021 festival

The future looks promis­ing for live fes­ti­vals, but for now we are still in the land of the vir­tu­al. Gwyl 2021 ear­li­er this month used this mode to its full advan­tage. The event was put togeth­er by four Welsh fes­ti­vals, Focus Wales, Fes­ti­val of Voice, Aberys­t­wyth Fes­ti­val of Com­e­dy and Oth­er Voic­es. Col­lec­tive­ly, they created…

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Gwyl 2021 – eight days of music and arts

Excit­ing and inno­v­a­tive new Welsh fes­ti­val Gŵyl 2021 stretch­es over eight days and from the 8th to 12th March, the pro­gramme offers some exclu­sive and unique events. Pre­sent­ed by music-indus­try fes­ti­val Focus Wales, this is a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to lis­ten to live pan­el ses­sions fol­lowed by live show­case per­for­mances. And on Thurs­day, Focus Wales 360°…

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Gwyl 2021 festival – ready to watch this weekend

There’s a feel­ing of spring in the air and fes­ti­vals both online and live are tan­ta­lis­ing­ly loom­ing on the hori­zon. The fol­low­ing week is good place to begin, with a brand new event to go out online. Called Gŵyl 2021, it show­cas­es con­tri­bu­tions from four Welsh fes­ti­vals: Focus Wales, Fes­ti­val of Voice, Aberys­t­wyth Com­e­dy Festival…

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