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WELCOME Lancaster's Second Annual Music Festival, Friday Oct. 8th
through Sunday Oct. 10th, 2010
13 Music Themes (festivals within
the festival: indie, punk, classical, folk, rock, blues, pop, jazz,
maritime, brassband, avant-garde, electronica, funk)
Music
Industry events
Ale trails
and Beer Festivals
Canal
Cruises with music all weekend
Bells and Organs, a Jazz Mass
Concert at the Castle
Street music
Great
Food
No Festival Fee*
About Lancaster Music Festival
See Festival
Objectives for the goals of our festival.
Lancaster is one of Britain's best kept musical secrets. This is
not an idle boast but an observation. Just out of sight of the M6
between junction 33 and 34 and two hours on the mainline from London
and Scotland (Edinburgh and Glasgow) this supposedly quaint historic
market town conceals a very different personality with an edgy,
highly diverse world class secular and non-secular music scene supported
by a large number of music locations (over 40), music organisations
(over 20) and musicians (well over 300 listed acts in the district).
There are innumerable restaurants and cafes (see food),
a covered and an open air market (Saturday), plenty of night clubs
(10), two theatres, and lots of accommodation
to suit every taste and every pocket. We have a castle, cathedral,
canal, a salmon river, a 30 mile bay overlooked by the mountains
of the Lake District, England's largest folly situated on a landscaped
Victorian park overlooking all that and we're only 3 miles from
the beach. When it isn't raining it's breathtaking!
There are such a large number of real ale pubs (see ales)
that there will be a number of beer festivals taking place over
the festival weekend (Mitchells
of Lancaster Ale Trail George
& Dragon, Penny
Bank and Merchants).
These are the reasons we believe make a music festival at Lancaster
truly unique. The festival itself reflects this diversity and does
so by being location, organisation and music driven. It's run non-for-profit
by the coordinating team (led my Lancaster's own music agency CME
Artist Services) and relies on local support not grants so we
can run this event each year without fear of funding running out.
Click <HERE>
for the festival's stated objectives.
Last Year's Festival
In 2009 we had our first all genre music festival. In many ways
it was a pilot but it exceeded our expectations with many venues
posting the busiest day, weekend or week since trading, many of
the hotels and B&Bs fully booked, and an estimated 3-4000 folks
attending the events. Last year we had 18 venues, 60 acts and 80
shows (see 2009 FEEDBACK). This
year, with virtually the whole city behind the event, we expect
to break all previous records (despite the much touted recession).
Unusually, this festival is entirely self-supported through the
venues and local businesses that thrive here and the public and
private organisations that support them. There are no grants or
handouts.
CONTACT US
We are not accepting artist applications at this time. The final
calendar is expected end of August. Musicians who have already applied
can contact us at music@lancastermusicfestival.com.
If you are a local business that would like to be advertised in
the festival brochure, website and other press media please contact
the festival coordinator at info@lancastermusicfestival.com
for rates and options.
Festival blog is available, courtesy of Sue Seddon
of Lancashire Life <HERE>.
To keep up to date with what is going on and to sign up to our newsletter
see contacts. You can follow our festival
coordinator's immediate updates on our Twitter
account. Or contribute to our Facebook
Event Blog.
*A few individual events
are tickted, most are not. Tickets for ticketed events will be available
on venue's website, this website, and Lancaster and Morecambe Tourist
Information Centres as and when available
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Sponsors and Partners
(click on logos to access
websites)

Lancaster
based booking agency, festival coordination, sponsor, and main booker
of out of town acts

Membership based organisation championing
hospitality in the Lancaster district and provider of city centre
banners

Lancaster based hotel and inn business.
Also sponsoring a number of their managed houses included in the
festival. Venue banner sponsor.

Local and regional press, marketing and promotion, coordination
of public agencies. City wide banner sponsor.

Bay Radio. Radio advertising and
venue banner sponsors.

Sponsors of Venue
Banner production and George
and Dragon Beer Festival
Royal Kings Arms
<awaiting
logo>
Offering hotel rooms
for shanty singers, venue banner sponsors.
Other Participating Organisations
(click on logos to access
websites)

Lancaster's Community Radio station.
Providing acoustic stage in Lancaster Market as well as recording
live festival performances for broadcasting.

Sponsors of Market Gate Concert
Series Sat. Oct. 9th - Sun. Oct. 10th

Sponsors of St. Nicholas Arcade
Concert Series Sat. Oct. 9th - Sun. Oct. 10th

Lancaster based indie label hosting
the Saturday Oct. 9th all day and night indie festival Upstairs
at the Park

Suppliers to several
festival venues
Number one UK pub information website,
based in Lancaster hosting the Lancaster Music Festival
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