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<\/div>\n

Music Festivals<\/h1>\n

in 2017<\/h2>\n

What festivals to look for in 2017<\/p>\n

Music festivals take place all through the year; we will add details below as they become available.<\/p>\n

March<\/p>\n

11th and 12th March<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Leicester’s new music festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

April<\/p>\n

Handmade<\/h2>\n

Friday 28th April 2017 – Sunday 30th April 2017<\/p>\n

Early bird tickets are on sale now<\/p>\n

See the website for Handmade Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n

May<\/p>\n

22 to 28th<\/p>\n

Festival2Funky<\/h2>\n

See the 2Funky website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Glastonbudget<\/h2>\n

26th to 28th May<\/p>\n

taking place at Wymeswold near Loughborough<\/p>\n

Details from the Glastonbudget website<\/a><\/p>\n

June<\/p>\n

Download<\/h2>\n

9th to 11th June<\/p>\n

Details are on the Download website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Riverside<\/h2>\n

Leicester<\/p>\n

Foxton Locks<\/h2>\n

Leicestershire<\/p>\n

July<\/p>\n

Noisily Festival<\/h2>\n

6th to 9th July<\/p>\n

Leicestershire, Coney Woods<\/p>\n

Details from the Noisily website<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Western Park<\/h2>\n

Local festival in Leicester<\/p>\n

23rd to 24th July<\/p>\n

Simon Says<\/h2>\n

Music festival held at De Montfort Hall and Gardens<\/p>\n

Y Not Festival<\/h2>\n

Held over the border in Derbyshire and now one of the established top rank national events.<\/p>\n

August<\/p>\n

Caribbean Carnival<\/h2>\n

Usually held in early August; a parade followed by a festival on Victoria Park.<\/p>\n

City Festival<\/h2>\n

In August a festival of arts and music takes place in Leicester that includes the Cosmopolitan carnival.<\/p>\n

Loughborough<\/h2>\n

Two festivals – BeaconFest and PhantomFest are held each year in August.<\/p>\n

Oxjam leicester Takeover<\/h2>\n

Takes place usually in October each year.<\/p>\n

See also:<\/p>\n

Our page listing the festivals that took place in 2016<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For reviews of festival in 2016 see the contents page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Music Festivals taking place in 2017<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":10624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-festival-dates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Loughborough-Dave-the-band.jpg?fit=600%2C450&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p73uhX-2OT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11623,"url":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/festivals2017-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":10843,"position":0},"title":"Festivals 2017","author":"Trevor Locke","date":"20\/01\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Music festivals 2017","rel":"","context":"In "2017"","block_context":{"text":"2017","link":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/Music\/2017\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SS-Sat-KG-general-view.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SS-Sat-KG-general-view.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/SS-Sat-KG-general-view.jpg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":12343,"url":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/glastonbudget-2017\/","url_meta":{"origin":10843,"position":1},"title":"glastonbudget2017","author":"Trevor Locke","date":"09\/05\/2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Report on the Glastonbudget music festival 2017","rel":"","context":"In "2017"","block_context":{"text":"2017","link":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/Music\/2017\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Glastonbudget-2015-logo.jpg?fit=600%2C447&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Glastonbudget-2015-logo.jpg?fit=600%2C447&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Glastonbudget-2015-logo.jpg?fit=600%2C447&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5366,"url":"https:\/\/www.musicinleicester.co.uk\/index.php\/thatwas2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":10843,"position":2},"title":"ThatWas2014","author":"Trevor Locke","date":"20\/12\/2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Page last edited: 1st January 2015 That Was 2014 The year has been good for music. 2014 was a bumper year for bands, singers, rappers and music artists of all kinds. 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