Lancaster Music Festival 2015

Thursday 8th to Monday 12th October 2015
various venues, Lancaster, Lancashire, LA1 1NP, England MAP
most of these events will be free

Last updated: Tue 15th Sep 2015

Now in its 7th year, Lancaster Music Festival is being extended by 2 days to take place from 8th to 12th October 2015.

The festival will feature over 200 acts performing a wide range of genres at nearly 50 venues all within walking distance across the city of Lancaster, inLancashire. Most of the shows will be free.

Line-up

2 for Joy, A Little Vinyl Interlude, Absolutely Legless, Adam Miller, Adventures of Andy Kershaw, Adverse Camber, Alchemy, Alex Hulme, Amani, Amy Jo Clough, Ann Brookes and Rachel Oliphant, Ark, Atkinsons All Stars, Asian 60s Disco, Balkanics, Batala, Bev Whelan, Bill Lloyd, Bill Wilding, Bimble Brothers, Black Country Ukulele Band, Blackpool Music Service, Bob Arden, Boogie Bill’s Piano Bar, Boom Bike Bouree, Bootstraps, Boy on Junkyard, Brendan Cronin, Burritos, Bush Rush, Busking, Callus, Carmen and the Devil, Charlie, Clara Valente, Clever Trevor, Clougha Mountain Bluegrass Boys, Convulsions, Counting Daisies, Crafty Scholars, D-Liberate, Dance Puppet Dance, Dan Haywood, David Jaggs, David J Kelly, Dead Man's Hand, Die No More, Emma and the Professor, Estrela Leminski and Teo Ruiz, Evie Plumb, Fake Hearing Disorder, Five in a Bar, Get Carter, Glass Poppies, Glenn Hodge, Glyn Shipman, Gobbledegook, Graham Mumford, Greenheart, Groove Cutters, Gus Munro, Gwenda Meredith, Harry Hammond, Hat Trick, Hiroshima Twinkie, Howard Haigh, Howden Jones, Howling Clowns, Hustle, Intensely Staring Cats, Jack Spencer, Jalanan, Jamie Walker, Jay Blackburn, Jay Diggins, Jeanette Main, Jeremiah Ferrari, Jim and Callum (Heidrum), Jive Hoot, Joe Gardiner, Joe Ramsden, Joni Fuller, Kakatsitsi, Lancaster and Morecambe College, Lancaster City Brass, Lancaster Funk Club, Lancaster Jazz Quintet, Larks in the Park, Leth Fourr, Let's Go (Instru) Mental!, Lilit Bleyan, Lol Goodman Band, Low Countries, Lucas Button, Maia, Man About a Dog, Manakin Birds, Manfredis, Max Haymes, Metcalfe Moffat and Peat, Mid Life Crisis, Mike Taylor, Millennium Choir, Mini King, Mobius Loop, Molly Warburton, Morecambe Bay Brass, Mr. Ben, N'Dodo, Neil Harrison and the Bray Katz, New Jave Trio, Northern Sky, Northern Soul and Motown Tribute, Op Sa! Balkan Band, Paddy Garrigan and the Stroller Priests, Peloton, PJ Turner and Crow Mendala, Players from Haffner Orchestra, Portraits, Quay Change, Brazilian and Circus, Ragamuffins, Reggiemental, Religion of Tomorrow, Rob Bee, Rob Young, Robert Gillow Uke Club, Rock It Man, Rock n Roll Nuggets III, Ron Carey, Roomful of Mirrors, Rotunda, Sacred Sounds, Salsa in the Square, Saltcutters, Section, Sensory Hoverload, Sherlock Jr., Smartphone Quiz, Sol e Sombre, Solatino, Sold to the Sky, Sole e Sombria, Sophie, Soul Circle, Stone Monkey, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, Sun Street Stompers, Tactical Toxins, Tantrum, Templebys, The Charly Syndrome, The Crash Mats, The Duo, The Initiative, The Feud, The Landed, The New Band, The Pakt, The Rats Nest, The Stopouts, The Truce, Thistle, Three Bears, Three Dimensional Tanx, Tin Pan Alley, Tobias Daniels and Young Peoples Service, Tommy McTomTom, Turnstone, Two Man Ting, Two Men on a Bike on a Dray, Ufly, Who Are You?, Woodsmen, Xtract, and Zach Roddis.

Lancaster Music Festival is famous for reflecting the city of Lancaster's musical abundance, excellence and diversity.

Venues

Over 50 venues and dozens of local and out of town artists will be celebrating Lancaster's musical talent and diversity to provide a wide variety of music.

There are venues open at all times with at least one with a 24 hour licence. The festival caters for kids of all ages from 8 to 80. The venues are within easy walking distance of each other and are located mostly in the city centre. There are plenty of accommodation options, as well as many places to eat and drink in Lancaster, and the festival is very centrally located.

More info

Almost all the shows are free (there’s a nominal £1 entry into the Castle and one venue has tickets for some of the national acts but all under a tenner). The ales are not free but are super. For beer lovers there are two city breweries and countless local and regional tipples (Lancaster is officially the Northern City of Ale). A wide variety of excellent eateries from fast to leisurely cater for appetites worked up going from venue to venue, dancing or from general carousing.

Those few events that have tickets will be available from the website, on the door at the venues and also at the Lancaster Visitor Information Centre.

For more information about the festival, including details of how to apply to perform, visit The Lancaster Music Festival website.

To contact the organisers for more information (whether a festival goer or a band) email: music@lancastermusicfestival.com.

More information will be here when available.