[ad_1] 55 Grand is something to shout about. Frank Turner with The Lottery Winners at Kendal Calling 2023. Kendal Calling has revealed that this summer’s festival has raised a whopping £55,735 for local charities, organisations and other deserving causes. Funds were raised just last month at Kendal Calling through donations, merchandise sales, guest list donations,…
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[ad_1] Vaccines at Kendal Calling 2022. Pic: Tom Martin Joining the list of record-time sellouts for 2023, Kendal Calling has harnessed high demand by giving festival goers have one last chance to get a pair for themselves, by entering a charity raffle to raise funds for James’ Place, and Papyrus UK. The final x10 pairs…
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[ad_1] Blending in yet easy to find – Andy Smith at Kendal Calling 2023. Cards on table: I love Cumbria. It’s a hell of a trip from Insights Towers down here in the South West but any excuse is taken, including a couple of days at Kendal Calling, where I took the chance to have…
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[ad_1] Kendal Calling will be back in the fields once again this July and following its recent musical line-up announcement, the festival has revealed the hugely anticipated return of The Soapbox with Hooch. Hooch is partnering with Kendal Calling for a second year on this super fun stage. Taking place from 27 – 30 July…
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[ad_1] Event décor and installation specialists, Visual Architects has been recommissioned for services at Kendal Calling 2023 taking place at Lowther Deer Park in the Lake District from 27th – 30th July, following a successful, full transformation of the festival in 2022. Last summer saw the Manchester-based company – which transforms events and venues through…
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[ad_1] Royal Blood at Kendal Calling 2023. Pic: George Harrison Hailed as ‘the mini-Glastonbury of the North’, Kendal Calling is back in the fields this summer and today shares an enormous first drop of acts for 2024. This includes FIVE huge headliners, plus over 120 world-class acts set to entertain and delight in August. Noel…
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[ad_1] Kendal Calling 2023. Pic: Tom Martin Kendal Calling has added another 50+ acts to its 2024 line-up including Lucy Spraggan, Charlotte Plank, Benjamin Francis Leftwich, A Certain Ratio, Sugababes, The Snuts, Feeder, Bilk, ADMT, Alfie Jukes, Future Utopia, HotWax and more. This includes stars of the main stage, Tim Peaks’ biggest-ever Kendal Calling billing,…
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[ad_1] Festival travel impact gurus, ecolibrium have partnered with the Association of Independent to deliver a free lunch and learn webinar: Climate-Responsible Travel for Live Events on Thursday 15th June, 12.30 – 13.30. Sign up to the free webinar here: https://bit.ly/ecolibriumAIFtravelwebinar Expect to learn about ecolibrium’s simple four-step process for tackling your event’s travel impacts…
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[ad_1] Ben Robinson The award for best line-up of 2022 at the UK Festival Awards went to Bluedot, which fuses music, science, arts and culture to deliver an intriguing blend in a unique environment. We got together with co-founder, Ben Robinson, to dig into the history, the ethos and that Bjork orchestral headline slot. How…
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[ad_1] The Association of Independent Festivals has reached 100 members. Eisteddfod Yr Urdd became the 100th AIF member in January, with the milestone being announced today (February 1) at the opening of this year’s Festival Congress in Bristol. An annual Welsh-language youth festival of literature, music and performing arts organised by Urdd Gobaith Cymru, Eisteddfod…
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[ad_1] Bluedot Festival one of ecolibrium’s founding festival members. Pic: George Harris ecolibrium doubled its active members in 2022 uniting festivals and event companies in environmental restoration ecolibrium and balancing 13.4 million travel miles with climate investments. In 2022, 60 festivals, events, suppliers and music companies engaged with ecolibrium to understand how best to tackle…
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[ad_1] Lottery Winners’ Thom Rylance (R) and Gigseekr Gavin Barnard at the band’s December show at Moles in Bath. Lottery Winners have collaborated with Gigseekr on a headline UK tour, to help bring their highly acclaimed live performances to an expanding fanbase. Catchy tunes and great musicianship were intertwined with frontman Thom Rylance’s everchanging interaction,…
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[ad_1] Photo credit: Energy Garden, London, one of ecolibrium’s renewable energy project partners. Donations from over 35 members, including EMI Records, Universal Music UK, Wilderness Festival and All Points East, will balance the equivalent of over six million miles of travel carbon emissions, funding six projects taking action on the climate crisis; from community-owned renewable…
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[ad_1] UK: Environmental activists Extinction Rebellion will participate in a unique collaboration with Kendal Calling this July, curating an area at the festival that focuses on raising awareness around climate change, species extinction, and engaging in peaceful civil disobedience. From in-depth talks, workshops and film screenings to screen printing and yoga sessions, attendees can expect…
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[ad_1] UK: The multi award-winning festival Kendal Calling has sold out for the 13th consecutive year, less than three weeks after announcing its first wave of acts for 2018. Ticket-holders will see Catfish & the Bottlemen, The Libertines and Run DMC perform at the Lake District this summer, which last year became a UNESCO World…
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[ad_1] UK: Sound City, the award-winning metropolitan festival of live music and arts, will take place from May 5 – 6 2018. Returning to its roots, the festival will move back to Liverpool city centre in a yet-to-be-announced venue. The next edition of the festival promises to repurpose a ‘pioneering location’, offering a much more…
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