AIF launches festival podcast series
The Association of Independent Festivals’ new podcast series is for anyone looking to run a small or micro festival.
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‘It’s about creating memories rather than simply selling food’: Smoke & Fire on celebrating food culture through festival BBQ
Ashley Peniston-Bird, founder and director of Smoke & Fire Festival, speaks on how a charity fundraiser became one of the UK’s biggest food weekenders.
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Food experience brand Togather acquires Field Vision Bars
Togather says that the two businesses will “bring more than 60 event experts together on a single combined F&B [food and beverage] offer.”
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Jacqui Harris named managing director of Superstruct Entertainment UK
The former AEG Presents VP and general manager brings over 20 years of live entertainment and festival experience to the company.
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Scotland’s Findhorn Bay Festival announces first shows for 2026
Rachel Sermanni, Alan Bissett presents When Billy Met Alisdair and more amongst first names for the arts and culture festival.
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‘We can do exactly what we want’: debut festival Let Loose on leaping into the unknown
Vicky Parsons, co-founder and director of Let Loose Festival, on doing the unthinkable – creating a new festival for 2026.
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ADE announces more than 250 acts for 30th edition
The debut announcement is the first wave in a programme that will feature 3,000 artists across over 200 venues.
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String of festivals cancelled due to extreme heat and weather
Electronic music festival Defqon.1, Garorock in France and Belgium’s Paradise City were all impacted by extreme weather events.
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All Points East announces free In The Neighbourhood festival
The free festival brings sports activities, live music, theatre, food and drink together across four days.
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Unsound 2026 announces first acts and commissions for Warsaw and Kraków festivals
Polish experimental music and arts festival Unsound will take place across two cities for the first time in its history: Warsaw (2–6 October) and Kraków (8–11 October). The two festivals will share the theme of SOFT POWER, with no two performances being repeated between the two cities. The combined festival includes an appearance from experimental […]
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