The team from the Bath Festival and the Bath Festival Finale Weekend have announced its plans regarding alternative arrangements for these landmark events that regularly enjoyed by families across the Bath region and beyond.
The Bath Festival
Bath Festivals has rescheduled many of its events into The Bath Festival November Weekend 2020 and The Bath Festival May 2021. Rescheduled highlights include Rachel Parris, David Lammy, Raynor Winn, Concert for the People of Bath with Bath Philharmonia, The Band of the Royal Marines and many more.
The full list of rescheduled and cancelled events can be seen here www.bathfestivals.org.uk/2020reschedule . All ticket holders for rescheduled events will still be able to use their existing tickets. All ticket holders will be contacted. Ticket sales for rescheduled events will reopen by 30 April.
The Bath Festival Finale Weekend
The festival finale weekend has been postponed until 29 -30 May 2021. The very good news is that the full line-up from 2020 has been confirmed for 2021 including Saturday headliner McFly with support from Scouting for Girls and KT Tunstall and Sunday headliner UB40 featuring Ali Campbell & Astro with support from Billy Ocean, Fun Lovin’ Criminals and Seth Lakeman.
Ticket holders for this year’s Finale Weekend will still be able to use their tickets next year. All ticket holders will be contacted. Ticket sales will reopen for Finale Weekend by 30 April.
The Big Book Weekend
The Big Book Weekend virtual festival takes place on 8-10 May 2020, offering a three-day virtual festival that brings together the best of events from various cancelled spring arts festivals in the UK, produced in association with BBC Arts and Arts Council England. Bath Festival’s fantastic Big Book Weekend event (which was due to take place in May) is Ray Bradbury at 100 with Neil Gaiman and Sam Weller and it will be virtually streamed to viewers for free on Saturday 9 May at 12pm. For more information visit www.bigbookweekend.com
Back Bath Festivals!
Bath Festivals is a charity with a goal to increase and broaden community engagement to provide a vibrant arts culture for everyone. The immediate impact of drastically reduced ticket sales, sponsorship and public funding means that your support is needed to ensure that Bath Festivals is here for your future. Whatever you can spare, will make a big difference. Please make a donation here: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/back-bath-festivals