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  • The Bath Festival 2020: Celebrating music and books in a beautiful city

    A ten day celebration of music and books, The Bath Festival 2020 programme is packed with inspiring conversations and spectacular performances. As well as featuring some of the world’s most talented writers and musicians, this year’s festival takes place in more beautiful venues than ever before. As a UNESCO world heritage site, you can’t fail […]

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  • Listen to The Bath Festival Finale Weekend Spotify playlist!

    Are you growing tired of the dark evenings and brisk winter winds? Don’t worry, spring is just around the corner and with it comes The Bath Festival Finale Weekend! Start looking forward to the festival with our feel-good Finale Weekend Spotify playlist. From infectious pop and 80s floorfillers to storytelling folk and indie rock ‘n’ […]

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  • The Bath Festival Finale Weekend 2020 full line-up revealed

    Bath is getting ready to party for two days in May as an impressive line-up of stars prepares to entertain crowds at the Bath Festival Finale Weekend. Bath Festivals and music promoters Orchard Live have announced that KT Tunstall, Fun Lovin’ Criminals and Seth Lakeman will be among the big names appearing alongside headliners McFly, Scouting […]

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  • What a year! Bath Festivals 2019 Highlights

    While packing away the Christmas decorations and closing last year’s diaries we take a lingering look at some of our finest festival moments in 2019. And what a year we had… To make sure you don’t miss out on any Bath Festivals news and announcements for 2020, you can sign up to our mailing list […]

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  • QUEEN OF PUNK PATTI SMITH TO PLAY BATH

    Legendary American singer-songwriter Patti Smith will be bringing her band to The Bath Forum as part of next year’s The Bath Festival. This is a rare 2020 UK appearance for the Queen of Punk, who is also celebrated for her work as a poet, photographer and activist. We are very excited to have worked in […]

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  • Chris Riddell at Bath Children’s Literature Festival

    Children’s author and illustrator Chris Riddell brought his jumbo stack of paper and fine liner pen to Bath! In this performance, he showcased new book Guardians of Magic and his life as a writer. I found it stunning to find out about his life and experience the world of his characters and work. His visualiser meant we […]

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  • McFly and UB40 to headline The Bath Festival Finale Weekend 2020

    There’s no need to go in search of good times next summer – as the party is set to come to Bath. We are very excited to announce McFly and UB40 featuring Ali Campbell and Astro as the headline acts for The Bath Festival Finale Weekend on Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 May 2020 on the […]

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  • Fantastic first weekend of Bath Children’s Literature Festival and still lots more to come!

    It was just as if someone had waved a wand – whoosh! the Bath Children’s Literature Festival opened with instant laughter and more than a little magic. We opened the festival with the biggest schools event we’ve ever staged as more than 800 children filled the city’s largest venue, the Forum, to welcome Cressida Cowell, […]

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  • 18 things that are great about Bath

    1 The city has some of the world’s finest historic buildings which are used to this day. As a festival we’re proud to welcome audiences to venues such as the Assembly Rooms, the Guildhall and the city’s old Theatre Royal. 2 Bath’s parks are its green lungs, offering residents and visitors free access to open […]

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  • Holly Bourne Q&A

    Writer Holly Bourne on her new book The Places I’ve Cried in Public, the challenges faced by young people today and how she likes to empower them Your new book The Places I’ve Cried in Public (due out on 3 October) depicts the girls we have all seen, or been ourselves, silently crying with their […]

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