NOT RUNNING IN 2025
The festival has been put on ice this year. Click the links to see how amazing last year's festival was.
Announcement
Hey everyone 🎶
You might be wondering why we haven’t spoken much about the next Lancaster Music Festival…Well, that’s because we have a little announcement to make: we’ve made the difficult decision to put Lancaster Music Festival on hold.
We’ve thought long and hard about it and weighed up current circumstances and factors and the time feels right to put the brakes on for a bit. It’s likely no surprise to you that putting LMF together is a huge effort and faces more challenges and hurdles every year. This is especially true when it comes to funding, whether that’s applying, being successful or facing failed bids. Though we give our all to the festival, we are a small team, all of whom have other jobs and commitments.
We know this news will be disappointing to you, but we hope you understand.
We love this festival, and we want to make sure we can deliver it to the best of our abilities every time. For us, it’s always been about watching our city and our community come together, come alive, and celebrate music and talent, see our businesses thrive and have a great time laughing, singing, dancing. We don’t want to change or compromise that. Keep it local. Keep it diverse. Keep it without hierarchy. Keep it as free as we possibly can. Keep it for everyone. That’s always been the mission and that’s how we’d like it to stay.
All being well, this is just a pause, a hit of the snooze button, and we’re back with you soon. That’s what we want, that’s what we hope.
In the meanwhile though, we’re looking to the brilliant Love Lancaster BID team who have generously stepped forward to put on their own version of a music celebration later this year. They'll be working with venues to create Love Lancaster Live and as the team behind Dino Fest, Christmas events and more, we know they'll do a fantastic job - so give their social media a follow and keep an eye out for Love Lancaster Live!
We’ll keep posting and updating you on what we have going on throughout this break and, of course, big up BID’s event – no radio silence here!
LANCASTER MUSIC FESTIVAL is one of the UK’s largest urban music festivals, where excited festival-goers descend on the historic city of Lancaster for a long weekend of music and merriment. With music throughout the city in over 50 venues, all easily walkable within the city centre, from the courtyard inside Lancaster Castle to cafés and coffee shops; through the city’s squares and outdoor spaces; and in the majority of the city's 30-odd wonderful pubs and bars.
Our grassroots festival celebrates the wonderful diversity and quality of musicians and performers in the local area whilst also inviting acts from all over the globe. With over 400 performances from more than 300 artists - almost all of them free - plus street theatre and workshops, LMF delivers something for everyone, no matter what age or musical taste.
