The 12 Greater Manchester summer season festivals you’ll be able to nonetheless get tickets for

We’re only some months into the 12 months and already we have been handled with a feast of cultural occasions and musical experiences. Homegrown acts like Liam Gallagher have handled followers to new music, whereas main music venues like Co-op Live have seen acts together with Elbow, The Black Keys and Barry Manilow grace the stage.

And there’s loads extra to return so far as gigs and concert events are involved. Meanwhile, the pageant season is just simply getting began. For Greater Manchester, the start of summer season is marked by 80,000 revellers pouring into Heaton Park in early June for Parklife Festival, carefully adopted by a string of metropolis centre and borough occasions spanning music, comedy, foods and drinks and the humanities.

Even although standard festivals like Bluedot and Neighbourhood Weekender in Warrington will take a 12 months off for 2024, we have nonetheless readying ourselves for some stellar festivals together with Parklife and Manchester Pride. And though not all of Manchester’s upcoming festivals have introduced full particulars but, this is what we all know to this point on a few of these occasions happening.

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Manchester Craft Beer Festival – 5-6 June

Taking over Depot Mayfield, the Manchester Craft Beer Festival will characteristic 65 breweries exhibiting greater than 500 beers and ciders, from locals like Cloudwater, Track, Marble, Northern Monk, Bundobust, Sureshot and Seven Brothers.

The enormous occasion may even characteristic tastings and excursions with the likes of Channel 4’s Mark Dredge and stay Euros screening. For one thing to soak all of the tastings, ramen joint Bone Daddies shall be readily available making their Manchester debut, sitting alongside Almost Famous, Bundobust, MorMor and Vooddoo Rays.

Standard entry tickets are priced at £57, and a bunch supply saves you £5 per ticket once you purchase 4 collectively, lowering the price to £52. The ticket contains your whole beer, a particular pageant beer glass and entry to the pageant’s talks, tastings, excursions, Food Block Party and stay music.

Parklife Festival – 8-9 June

The UK’s largest metropolitan festivals returns in simply a few weeks time as a few of music trade’s greatest acts and stars descend on the Greater Manchester venue on June 9 and 10.

This 12 months’s Parklife pageant will characteristic headliners together with American rapper and singer Doja Cat – her first ever UK pageant set – alongside digital duo Disclosure and Mercury-nominated J-Hus. They’ll be joined by pop royalty Sugababes, in addition to producer Kaytranada, chart-topper Becky Hill and world-conquering DJ Peggy Gou, amongst others.

OAK FEST – 27 July

Ever so barely off patch, OAK FEST, a household pleasant music pageant lower than an hour from Manchester is again and it is providing £15 tickets for a restricted time. Held at Oak Hill Park in Hyndburn in Accrington, it’ll characteristic a headline efficiency from Kate Nash and a DJ set from Happy Mondays legends Bez and Rowetta when it takes place on July 27, 2024.

Also becoming a member of the line-up throughout two levels will embrace Jessica Winter, New Orleans brass and 90s dance fusion Mr Wilson’s Second Liners, DJ Simba, Amsterdam indie pop powerhouse Pip Blom and a magical rendition of ABBA hits from the Untold Orchestra.

Until June 1, pageant goers can get £15 tickets to the pageant as a part of a particular early hen supply. Last 12 months’s pageant, which marked the primary OAK FEST, was attended by greater than 5,000 folks.

Heaton Park Food & Drink Festival – 3-4 August

Returning to Heaton Park is the center of summer season, this 12 months’s occasion will characteristic a road meals enviornment that includes an array of world cuisines, an artisan market showcasing 80 merchants, and a plethora of bars.

From Mexican tacos and bao buns within the meals enviornment, to a a wide range of candy treats and home-baked items, plus drinks from a a bunch of independents there’s already loads within the works to pique even probably the most seasoned foodie’s curiosity.

Rochdale Feel Good Festival – 10 August

Chart toppers Lottery Winners, Ocean Colour Scene and Heather Small are a few of the headliners introduced already introduced for this 12 months’s Rochdale Feel Good Festival.

This summer season the primary stage returns to its standard location on Rochdale Town Hall Square, after a five-year absence, together with stay music throughout indoor venues, and a foods and drinks village. While early-bird tickets have bought on the market’s extra accessible on the Rochdale Council web site or in individual on the Middleton Arena.

Manchester Pride – 23-26 August

The enormous celebration that’s Pride just isn’t solely a purpose to be massively happy with our metropolis, however an ideal alternative to take in the most effective of Manchester’s music and nightlife. One of the largest celebrations of the LGBTQ+ group will embody the annual parade, a bunch of takeovers and the Gay Village Party that includes artists and performers.

Headlining the Gay Village Party, which can happen throughout varied levels surrounding Canal Street, shall be Jessie J and two-time Eurovision Song Contest winner Loreen, who represented Sweden in 2012 and 2023. Other confirmed acts embrace Katy B, DJ Paulette, Claire Richards from Steps, Louis III, Atomic Kitten’s Natasha Hamilton, Angie Brown and Chinchilla.

Festa Italiana – 23-25 August

Festa Italiana, UK’s greatest Italian pageant, is coming again to Cathedral Garden, Manchester between 23-25 August for an epic 2024 version. Created by town’s family-run favourites Salvi’s, there shall be a market, recent music line-up and return of the Festa Italiana Della Donna (Women’s Day) following its debut in 2023.

As effectively as all of the Italian meals staples you’ll be able to consider, there shall be chef appearances and demos, a musical parade and a few of Manchester’s finest foods and drinks distributors serving up pasta, pizza, arancini, cannoli, spritz and extra.

Bolton Food & Drink Festival – 23-26 August

The August Bank Holiday is at all times a giant one and in Greater Manchester we’re fortunate sufficient to have two meals festivals maintaining guests fed, watered and entertained throughout the lengthy weekend. After half 1,000,000 folks turned out to Bolton Food & Drink Festival final 12 months, they’re again and with some new additions.

As effectively as its robust roster of foods and drinks merchants, chef talks and stay leisure, this 12 months may even characteristic a ‘Sheer Luck Holmes’ homicide thriller served up alongside a three-course meal, a Faulty Towers Dining Experience, and chef James Martin shall be making his 14th look on the pageant on Bank Holiday Monday.

Moovin Festival – 23-25 August

This hidden Greater Manchester pageant nestled amongst serene lakes and a gorge returns this August financial institution vacation. Taking place at Whitebottom Farm, within the splendidly picturesque Etherow Country Park, this needs to be fairly the occasion.

Spanning a variety of music genres – from reggae and drum and bass, to funk, home and soul, Moovin began out as a small barn occasion and gone on to grow to be a sell-out financial institution vacation staple. Pitching as much as play would be the likes of Leftfield, Laurent Garnier, hip-hop group Souls of Mischief and reggae legend David Rodigan, together with Afro beats pioneer and world star Sampa The Great.

Green Island Festival – June 15, September 7

This sequence of one-day festivals takes over the city oasis of Hulme Garden Centre, with a wide range of DJs, stay acts and meals merchants throughout three dates in June, July and September.

The pageant, will happen throughout three dates on June 15, July 27 and September 7, goals to ‘supply a peaceable sanctuary from a busy city way of life’. Heading down this 12 months shall be Senegal performers Def MaMa Def, dance music outfit Afriquoi and multi-instrumentalist David Walters.

There may even be a Selector Stage hidden away enjoying vinyl records by means of an elite sound system. Record label Apricot Ballrooms are amongst these internet hosting takeovers on the ‘secret’ stage. And Warwick Street will characteristic a variety of foods and drinks stalls, with merchants to be revealed nearer to the date.

Laughterama – 4-8 September

If you are in want of fun luckily there’s an occasion on the horizon that is designed to do precisely that. Laughterama, Manchester’s greatest comedy pageant, returns to Castlefield Bowl from 4-8 September with an unimaginable sequence of exhibits starring stand-up’s best.

As summer season attracts to an in depth, you can Catch a compilation of comedy luminaries together with 8 Out of 10 Cats staff captain and stand-up grasp Jon Richardson, British Comedy Award-winner Stewart Lee and multi-award-winning Sara Pascoe, plus many extra all-star names.

Góbéfest – 20-22 September

This September you’ll be able to expertise the meals and tradition of the Carpathian Basin with out having to go away Manchester – or journey all the best way to Transylvania. Góbéfest, the annual celebration of city and European people music and dance returns to Cathedral Gardens this September.

As effectively as being a feast for the ears, festival-goers will be capable to take pleasure in a variety of delicacies, from large pans of goulash, to the fried flat breads referred to as lángos and Transylvanian barbecued chimney desserts. Alongside craft beer, there may even be a Hungarian wine stall, a cocktail bar and a palinka (Hungarian fruit brandy) bar.