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Lancaster Music Festival - 8th - 11th October 2026 With a wide range of genres on offer, there’s something to suit everyone.

LANCASTER MUSIC FESTIVAL 10th -13th Oct 2024

Lancaster's award-winning Music Festival will be bringing top notch performances from local, national and international acts over 4 days. Expect plenty of live music performances in 50+ participating venues, which include many of your favourite pubs, cafes and shops throughout the city centre. Lancaster’s historic squares will be hosting youth stages,

dance performances and street theatre ensuring bags of variety and family fun. The vast majority of the festival is free to attend. A small number of other exclusive & exciting events may require a donation, entrance fee or advance booking. Further information on these events can be found on our website. For more information about the festival and to sign up to our newsletters please visit www.lancastermusicfestival.com

26/05/2026

There's just one week left until our public fundraiser closes! 🎶

A small donation from you will go a long way in helping us deliver music, dance and family-friendly activities to our city's outside spaces and making them as brilliant as they can be 🙌

If you can, help us get over the final hurdle by June 2. Every penny is massive and greatly appreciated. It's easy to donate at the link below 👇
spacehive.com/lancaster-music-festival-2026-outdoor

Thanks so, so much for all of your support for LMF 2026! ❤️

📅 Lancaster Music Festival 2026: Thurs 8 - Sunday 11 October

📸 Nettlespie Photography & AltFocus Photography

18/05/2026

We’re back in the city’s public squares for Lancaster Music Festival 2026! 🎶

That means free, live music and dance out in the open – family friendly, accessible, a chance for everyone to have a fun time together in the heart of the city 🙌

What’s not to love? 🤩

You can help make these squares as full and as fun as possible by donating what you can to our public fundraiser, which closes on June 2nd 👇
spacehive.com/lancaster-music-festival-2026-outdoor

Every little bit helps and we’re very grateful to every donation.
Thank you so much 🫶

📅 LMF 2026 returns on October 8-11

📸 Photos from previous LMFs, courtesy of Nettlespie Photography & AltFocus Photography

01/05/2026

Help us keep the Craic Inn dry this LMF! 🤩

The Craic Inn returns to the Storey Gardens at LMF 26, bringing with it its medley of folk music, array of beverages and top, top craic 🎶

This year, we're adding in a special session space for musicians to collaborate in, alongside The Craic Inn's usual stage. And we're aiming to keep both musicians and audience nice and warm and dry with some extra coverage...and even a yurt or two.

If you want to help keep the Craic Inn dry, please consider donating a few quid via our crowdfunder for outdoor spaces ♥️ Full details of the crowdfunder and what else it contributes to can be found below👇
spacehive.com/lancaster-music-festival-2026-outdoor

Every little donation is really appreciated 🫶

📸Nettlespie Photography

10/04/2026

The family-friendly, free, outdoor events at LMF often feel like magic ❤

But that's not by chance. There's a whole employed team behind the scenes, working to make it happen - stage crews, musicians, producers and sound tech who we support and encourage 😊

As a predominantly free festival, we can only make this happen by asking our audience to donate a few quid or what is affordable. The Melodrome Mobile Stage will be up at Lancaster Castle for this year's festival and we're busy behind the scenes organising some great acts to delight and entertain you 🎶

If you'd like to help out, here's a link to our fundraiser where you can donate or share 👇
spacehive.com/lancaster-music-festival-2026-outdoor

📸 Photo of Tuneless Choir at Melodrome, Nettlespie Photography, 2022
📸 Photo of Little Thief at Melodrome, AltFocus Photography, 2023

04/04/2026

Rock band Massive Wagons have released their first live album and it's already storming up the charts.

24/03/2026

Looking forward to checking out loads of fabulous acts over the next few days with Lancaster's 1st ever Unsigned Music Festival👌

06/03/2026

🎶 Can you help us celebrate and grow our local grassroots culture at this year's Lancaster Music Festival? 🎶

It's really important to us here at LMF that we champion our vibrant music history and community - because it's fantastic and we're very lucky to have it! 🤩

Part of how we showcase this magic is by bringing music and dance to our city's outside spaces, welcoming everyone to participate, perform and connect through music! 💃🥁🎤

This year, we're raising money to help keep these spaces as full of music and possibility as, well, possible with free public family-friendly events 🙌

Whether helping us create memorable experiences, exciting programmes and activities, or jobs & career pathways, a donation from you at the link below will play a big role in supporting this celebration 👇
spacehive.com/lancaster-music-festival-2026-outdoor

LMF is a largely free festival, which means we're hugely reliant on fundraising to get the festival going - now more than ever. And this fundraiser in particular is a massive opportunity as it has the potential be match funded by the Lancashire Culture and Sports Fund...if we can reach our targets! 🎯

Find out more about the fundraiser, our aims and what donations will go towards right here 👇
spacehive.com/lancaster-music-festival-2026-outdoor

We're hugely grateful for any donations and/or shares of the crowdfunder to help spread the word. LMF doesn't happen without all the love and support from you all and it's appreciated big time 🫶

Team LMF x 🎶✌️

📸 AltFocus Photography, LMF 2023

24/02/2026

📣 JOB OPPORTUNITY: FREELANCE DESIGNER 📣

Calling all aspiring graphic designers!

Thanks to funding from the Banks Lyon Memorial Trust, we are delighted to be able to offer a new job role working with the festival team this year.

Open to 18-25 year olds within the Lancaster District, the new paid freelance designer will work alongside our team and utilise LMF branding to help us get our info out in a creative, clear and fun fashion.

📅 Deadline for applications: Friday 6 March, midnight

All the info can be found in the job spec below 👇
https://tinyurl.com/LMF-Designer-Role

16/01/2026

📣 🎶Artist Applications for Lancaster Music Festival 2026 are now OPEN! 🙌

📅 Artists have until 15 February, 11.59pm to apply to perform at one of the LMF-programmed stages over the festival weekend (8-11 October 2026)

Interested? All the info you need to apply can be found right here on our website 👇
lancastermusicfestival.com/apply

Please note: all applications should be made via that link. Applications by email or social media will not be considered.

Looking forward to hearing what you've got! 🤩

Thanks ✌️
🎶 LMF 2026: October 8-11

14/01/2026

BID have been a hugely important part of bringing LMF to life and championing the festival in recent years, along so with so many other amazing cultural events across the city. It's fair to say that LMF would look a lot different without the backing from the network.

Massively grateful to Lancaster BID and the 400 businesses that fund and run it for all their support over the past few years ❤

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