Blog (August 2024) - Visit Lancashire

The festival is a chance to get involved with lots of family-friendly and creative activities, or you can simply relax and listen to the performers on the music stage, visit a floating museum or browse the arts & crafts on sale at the Makers Market.

Blackpool is preparing for one of the most magical nights in its calendar when, for one night only, the six miles of Promenade will be closed to give cyclists a sneak preview of this year’s Illuminations.

Browsholme Hall's Tithe Barn will be the setting for an early autumn lecture delivered by Neil Whalley on the evening of Tuesday 1^st October.

To celebrate Radio 2 in the Park 2024 coming to Moor Park in Preston next month, Jo Whiley, with a co-host, will broadcast her Radio 2 and BBC Sounds evening show live from a legendary music venue in the city on Thursday 5^th September. 

Visitors to this year’s Vintage by the Sea festival in Morecambe will take a journey through time with a programme celebrating the decades from the Twenties  to the Nineties.

WWT Martin Mere is celebrating a great success as seven bittern chicks hatch for the first time in the reserve’s recorded history.

St. Anne’s on the Sea Town Council are proud to announce the return of the St. Anne’s Music Festival 2024 in Ashton Gardens from 6.45pm Thursday 22^nd to 6pm Monday 26^th August 2024. This FREE event for the residents of St. Anne’s on the Sea is in its 3^rd year.

The stage is set at Blackpool Grand Theatre for unforgettable 130th anniversary dinners this September with extra special guest hosts Jodie Prenger, Steve Royle and Basil Newby MBE

Gareth Gates, Psychic Sally and The Making of a Murderer – The Real Manhunter are just some of the performances that feature as part of Guild Lounge’s events programme running from October 2024 through to March 2025.

Further plans have been announced for the eagerly anticipated Great British Rhythm & Blues Festival, which takes place in Colne over the August Bank Holiday Weekend.