More than just a festival...

We’re a music and arts festival that takes place each summer in venues throughout the seaside city of Bangor, County Down, including the beautiful Walled Garden at Bangor Castle and the bandstand in Ward Park.

We also run a year round music and arts programme in the Court House, our permanent home and live venue in a refurbished heritage building on Bangor seafront, plus we promote one-off shows in Belfast all year round. As an independent non-profit charity we reinvest any surplus from these events back into our arts programme, to help regenerate our beautiful seaside city of Bangor.

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