Its only 4 months since the first annual LIVE in Barnsley Free Music Festival took place in the town centre and already the organisers are planning for next years festival.

One of the organisers, John Backhouse, told us this week “We have made an agreement in principle with a large town centre venue to include a new stage in 2014 for classical music, brass bands, orchestras, string quartets, jazz bands, experimental, soloists etc. Details of the venue will be released in the new year, but for now we are looking for bands and musicians who would be interested in taking part” 

Fellow organiser, Dave Pearsall, added “we always said that we wanted the festival to cover as many music genres as possible and with the exciting addition of this new stage we are now nearer that goal. visit our website Complete the online application form here. and we'll take it from there. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us on [email protected]”

Organiser Steve Clifford told us “This is just the first of what we hope will be a number of announcements on the expanding festival, some of which may surprise some people, but ultimately should make for an even bigger and better festival next summer”

LIVE in Barnsley II is set to take place on Saturday 21^st June 2014.