Now entering its 8th Year and attracting thousands to the town, The Northampton Music Festival is a free event designed to raise the profile of the town through Music, to showcase local talent, and to bring the people of the town together for a good old knee’s up!

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This year’s festival takes place from the 19-21st June. There will be pop up events and gigs taking place in venues and on town centre streets throughout the weekend, with the main festival Town Centre takeover happening Sunday 21st from 12. All events are free to attend.

This year will have two new stages, including a Classical stage and Jazz stage, alongside our main stage on the Market Square, The All Saints Stage, BBC Introducing, NN Café Folk stage and Abington Street stages.

Last year over 40,000 people were in town on festival Sunday. The Northampton Music Festival is ran by Northampton Music 365, a not for profit community interest group, in Partnership with the Northampton Town Centre BID and Northampton Borough Council. Their production partner is Your Vision Events.

Kindly supported by: The Wilson Foundation, Carlsberg, Northamptonshire County Council, NMPAT &The University of Northampton.

Here is the first announcement of this year’s line up- and there’s lots more to come!

MARKET SQUARE

Ground Floor, Kayanites, Sea Based Turtles, The 2 Tones, OhBoy, Sean Grant and the Wolfgang, An Escape Plan, The Deportees

ALL SAINTS

Real Live Owls, Carly Loasby, Peter Marchant, Burrowing Bee’s, Paper Hawk

ABINGTON STREET/St PETERS WAY.

Amy Addison, Amii Dawes, Carl Spence, Rise Bailey Rise, Velvet Engine, Will Rogers, Scott Walters, Yoshe, Burning Candle Project, Ken J Nash, Jordon Herbet.

GUILDHALL COURTYARD – Jazz Stage.

Elevation Quintet, Mardi Gras Jazz Band, Northampton School for Girls Jazz Band, Ginger Pig, Take Six

CLASSICAL STAGE

NMPAT Classical Showcase, The University Of Northampton Requiem, Northamptonshire male voice choir, The Derngate Community Choir

BBC INTRODUCING

Devotions, Tapestry, [sane], Century City, Leo Robinson, Lennoxx, Quadra

METAL STAGE

Presented by Northampton Bands in Association with the King Billy.
Benign Plausibility, Poison Zoomak, The Bophins, Point Of Extinction, Harmfool, True Heights, Obstruction & Die Rivers.

PLUS – 15 VENUES PRESENTING MUSIC ALL WEEKEND – line ups to follow.