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News / Shindig
Award-winning festival moves to renowned location for 2025
The festival that was recommended by Emily Eavis has announced a surprise return
News / Ritual Union
Ritual Union returns with fresh sounds for 2025
The day festival taking place in March has announced its first wave of artists
News / hay festival
Hay Festival to bring ‘After Hours’ event to Bristol for first time
Hay Festival's new 'After Hours' event promises "a world of different experiences in a single night"
News / PAPAYA Fest
Nine-day PAPAYA Fest is back, promising ‘a week of cultural unity’
The returning event is billed as ‘a juicy festival of British-Latinx theatre and music’

Highlights

Features / Reviews
‘Be more mushroom’ – Nine things we learnt at Shambala 2024
The festival is equal parts environmental wisdom and playful mischief
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News / Festivals
Celebrating the country’s best festivals in Bristol
This December, our city will host the UK Festival Awards
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News / preview
Preview: Forwards Festival 2024
Forwards Festival returns to the Downs on Saturday and Sunday
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Features / The Jam Jar
Venue announces latest high-profile festival collab
Festivals are lining up to support the grassroots venue that is fundraising for a sustainable future
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Reviews / ArcTanGent
Review: ArcTanGent 2024 – ‘Ten glorious years of loudness’
Celebrating ten glorious years of loudness with a stunning headline set by Meshuggah
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Reviews / Boomtown Fair
Review: Boomtown 2024 – ‘Technicolour world-building at its finest’
40,000 revellers entered the renowned alternative universe for a weekend of magic, music and mayhem
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Features

Features / Reviews
‘Be more mushroom’ – Nine things we learnt at Shambala 2024
The festival is equal parts environmental wisdom and playful mischief
Read more
Features / The Jam Jar
Venue announces latest high-profile festival collab
Festivals are lining up to support the grassroots venue that is fundraising for a sustainable future
Read more
Features / womad
Embracing the chaos: a Bristol family’s first festival
Memories of tantrums fade but feelings of wonder as kids run joyfully wild remain
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Features / Previews
All fired up for Valley Fest 2024
Arcadia's Dragonfly has its origins in the farm that hosts the UK's most beautiful festival
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Features / micro-festivals
Is this the future of festivals?
How the slew of UK festival cancellations has been met with the rise of the humble micro-festival
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Features / Bristol Harbour Festival
From rural Somerset to meeting royalty
Gabriel Templar is headlining the main stage on Sunday for Bristol Harbour Festival
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Features / News
All the Bristol bands playing Glastonbury 2024
Bristol musicians decamp this weekend to play in the fields of Pilton Pop
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Festivals / Bristol Sounds
Conal Dodds on Bristol Sounds’ anniversary, competing with Glastonbury and the luxury of live music
The open-air concert series celebrates its 10th anniversary with its biggest year yet this summer
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Music / contemporary jazz
6161 – that’s my number
The JazzStroud weekend welcomes drummer Matt Stockham Brown’s high energy contemporary jazz project
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Music / Bristol New Music
The shock of the new?
New Music Festival celebrates hot jazz, cool classical and awesome AV
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Festivals By Month

Festivals By Month / Things to do in May
40 festivals happening in May 2020
The festival season gets into full swing
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Festivals By Month / Things to do in April
Five festivals happening in April 2020
The season kicks off early
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Festivals By Month / October
Seven festivals happening in October 2019
Keep grooving into the autumn
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Festivals By Month / Festivals by month
15 festivals happening in September 2019
All the festivals happening in September 2019
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Festivals By Month / festivals 2019
56 festivals happening in August 2019
Your guide to festivals happening locally and further afield in August 2019
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Festivals By Month / festivals 2019
66 festivals happening in July 2019
Your guide to the festivals taking place in July 2019
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Festivals By Month / festivals 2019
41 festivals happening in June 2019
Local, Uk and International festivals of June 2019
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Festivals By Month / local
37 festivals happening in May 2019
From the local to the international stage, the guide to festivals this May
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Festivals By Month / Things to do in April
Four festivals happening in April 2019
The guide to festivals happening locally and further afield
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Festivals By Month / Bristol festivals
53 festivals happening in July 2018
Your guide to the festivals happening in Bristol and further afield this month
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News

News / Shindig
Award-winning festival moves to renowned location for 2025
The festival that was recommended by Emily Eavis has announced a surprise return
Read more
News / Ritual Union
Ritual Union returns with fresh sounds for 2025
The day festival taking place in March has announced its first wave of artists
Read more
News / hay festival
Hay Festival to bring ‘After Hours’ event to Bristol for first time
Hay Festival's new 'After Hours' event promises "a world of different experiences in a single night"
Read more
News / PAPAYA Fest
Nine-day PAPAYA Fest is back, promising ‘a week of cultural unity’
The returning event is billed as ‘a juicy festival of British-Latinx theatre and music’
Read more
News / Festivals
Celebrating the country’s best festivals in Bristol
This December, our city will host the UK Festival Awards
Read more
News / preview
Preview: Forwards Festival 2024
Forwards Festival returns to the Downs on Saturday and Sunday
Read more
News / Bristol Harbour Festival
In photos: Bristol Harbour Festival 2024
Three days of entertainment returned to the docks and its surroundings
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News / Bristol Pride 2024
What to expect at Bristol Pride 2024
Here's what is happening as Bristol Pride makes its annual outgoing
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News / Bristol Harbour Festival
Harbour Festival introduces fringe events for first time
The Christmas Steps pub, the Glassboat gin bar and Coffee Club cafe are all taking part
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News / bristol balloon fiesta
Balloon Fiesta to celebrate city’s ‘unsung heroes’ in community-based flights
The much-loved festival returns from August 5 with a series of local morning launches
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Reviews

Reviews / ArcTanGent
Review: ArcTanGent 2024 – ‘Ten glorious years of loudness’
Celebrating ten glorious years of loudness with a stunning headline set by Meshuggah
Read more
Reviews / Boomtown Fair
Review: Boomtown 2024 – ‘Technicolour world-building at its finest’
40,000 revellers entered the renowned alternative universe for a weekend of magic, music and mayhem
Read more
Reviews / womad
Review: WOMAD 2024 – ‘People come to discover more about the world’
A great combination of unexpectedness, reliable favourites and storming headliners
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Reviews / Love Saves the Day
Review: Love Saves the Day (Sunday) – ‘An all killer, no filler lineup’
Ravers braved the rain for a stellar day of music culminating in a standout set from the Streets
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Reviews / Dot to Dot festival
Review: Dot to Dot – ‘Post-punk in all its myriad forms’
The eclectic lineup served up guitar-heavy treats at multiple venues across Bristol's centre
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Reviews / Boomtown
Review: Boomtown 2023 – ‘An incredible spectacle’
The festival, celebrating its 15th anniversary, partied like never before
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Reviews / Forwards Festival
Review: Forwards Festival 2023 (Saturday), the Downs – ‘One of a kind’
Aphex Twin, Arlo Parks and Primal Scream topped the lineup for the second day of the festival
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Reviews / Forwards Festival
Review: Forwards Festival 2023 (Friday), the Downs – ‘The party of the year’
Thousands came to watch Erykah Badu, Confidence Man and more for day one of the weekend festival
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Reviews / climate and sustainability
Review: Shambala – ‘A beacon of festival sustainability’
Kambe Events show yet again that it's possible to be green and have a good time
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Reviews / Glastonbury
Review: Glastonbury 2023 – ‘Wonderful, unique and utterly chaotic’
The festival that is like nothing else in the world returned to Worthy Farm in style for 2023
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