Lytham Festival is a five-day music festival held at Lytham Green. Organised by local company Cuffe and Taylor it started in 2009. Since then it’s grown to a big event, with big name acts each year.
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This tranquil beauty spot is normally reserved for dog walkers, kite flyers and family picnics. But for one week each summer, Lytham Green is transformed into a buzzing live music hub as artists from across the globe perform to crowds of up to 20,000 people a night.
Wednesday 3 July – Hozier, Brittany Howard, Lord Huron, Ye Vagabonds
Thursday 4 July – Shania Twain, Rag’n’Bone Man
Friday 5 July – Courteeners, The Kooks, Nieve Ella
Saturday 6 July – Madness, Rick Astley, Lightning Seeds, Kid Kapichi
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Sunday 7 July – James UK festival exclusive orchestral performance, accompanied by the ORCA22 Orchestra and the Manchester Inspirational Voices Choir. Johnny Marr, Inspiral Carpets, The Magic Numbers, The Kairos
More about Lytham Festival
Lytham Festival has grown from a one-night-only community Proms-style concert to a spectacular five-day live music event which now attracts well in excess of 100,000 people each summer. Staged on the banks of Lancashire’s stunning Ribble Estuary, the festival was the brainchild of friends Daniel Cuffe and Peter Taylor.
It started as two local lads having an idea for a one-night event for Leafy Lytham. In 2010 just 4,500 local people came to what was then Lytham Proms to watch soprano Lesley Garrett perform. A year later Lytham Proms grew into a three-day event with headliners Status Quo and Boyzone as well as a traditional proms concert headlined by Katherine Jenkins. As the Proms gained in popularity, in 2015 it became a four-day event, re-branded Lytham Festival. Since 2015 it’s been a five-day event.
It’s now a huge event on the national music calendar, with fans travelling from everywhere to take part.
Headliners have varied massively over the years including the likes of Billy Ocean, Tom Jones, Faithless and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds. To Bryan Adams, Hacienda Classical, Nile Rodgers and CHIC and Madness.
Alongside those headliners have been spectacular picnic Proms-style concerts attracting classical and musical theatre royalty. Including Lea Salonga, Ramin Karimloo, Michael Ball, Sheridan Smith, Alfie Boe, Collabro and Jodie Prenger.
2019 marked the 10th anniversary with headline shows from Rod Stewart, Kylie Minogue and Stereophonics.
These images above (by Gregg Wolstenholme) and below (by Andy Green) from 2019 show the scale of the event on the seafront:
Lytham Festival 2019
In 2019 headline acts included the Stereophonics, Rod Stewart and princess of pop Kylie Minogue. The quality of the event attracts tens of thousands of people from all over the country. Lytham and the surrounding area is buzzing for the duration of the event!
Our friend Sue Massey captured the rest of these fly-on-the-wall photos of the effect that the event has on the town.
The stage is set and Thursday morning starts with grey skies…
Parka Monkeys play Sounds in the Square in the town centre, before the gates open for Stereophonics.
The party’s over for the first night of the Festival 2019. A great time had by all and the rain stayed away!
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