We have a fantastic bill of live music, poetry, spoken word and dance from across the North-West to look forward to at the Three Degrees Festival. Find out more about the artists you can see performing at the festival here:

LIVE MUSIC

Filthy Laugh
Live Music Stage – 12noon

“We are Filthy Laugh: an acoustic folk-rock band who are based and gig regularly in Lancaster and Morecambe. We play energetic and insightful music that feature lyrics covering a broad range of social and environmental topics. These lyrics are accompanied to catchy and well-crafted tunes and we take pride in entertaining audiences around the local area. We are looking forward to playing as part of Three Degrees Festival to promote greener living and community empowerment in the fight against climate change.”

More Music Hour
Live Music Stage – 12.40pm

Featuring young people from our in-house music projects Bay Youth Voices, Stages, Sing It Out, Vocal Night and a special collaborative performance

The Marsh Harriers
Alexandra Park – 12.50pm

“The Marsh Harriers formed especially for the 3 Degrees Festival to share some of our own songs, which are all about noticing and caring for our local and global environment and for each other. Our songs tend to have catchy choruses and we would love you to join in – all voices are welcome. We are inspired by folk traditions from near and far, and by the landscapes, wildlife and history of Sunderland Point and Bazil Point, which is where we live.”

West End Primary School and Sandylands Primary School
Live Music Stage – 2pm

Over the spring and summer terms, our music leaders have been writing songs about climate action with local schoolchildren (Y3, Y4, Y5 and Y6 at West End and Y4 and Y5 at Sandylands), exploring how they feel about the environment and how they want to help. Collectively they have written nine songs which they will perform together live on stage!

Folk O’Lune
Food and Storytelling Space – 2pm and 4pm

More Music runs a weekly folk session and this band has developed from that, they are a fantastic group that perform traditional folk with great skill and joy

Reem Anbar
Live Music Stage – 2.40pm

Raised in Gaza, Reem Anbar rose to prominence as a young musician in the early 2000s and was quickly heralded as the city’s first female oud player. Reem performs with Gazelleband, as a solo artist and as a guest with other leading musicians. Since late 2023, she has performed in eight countries on three continents and recently brought her music and stories to the refugee camps of Lebanon. After a year developing her musicianship with leading Egyptian maestros, Reem returns to her base in Britain in summer 2025 for new concert dates and recordings.

Baybeat Streetband
Alexandra Park – 3pm

Baybeat Streetband is our longest running project and is a community samba streetband with percussion and horns that bring good times and great times everywhere they play!

Seagull Café Singalong
Food and Storytelling Space – 3.05pm

Seagull Café is our weekly sessions for people over 60+ to enjoy a good time singing along to popular songs in a social space. Bill and Sian from Seagull Café will be doing a special outdoor performance for the festival.

The Balkanics
Live Music Stage – 3.20pm

The Balkanics are from Lancaster and have been playing around with Balkan rhythms and assorted global melodies for a number of years. For the Three Degrees Festival, they are joined by a series of guests for an experimental set that combines their musical interests with their professional lives. Ecology, geology, vulcanology, sociology and the arts and humanities will meet traditional melodies in an ecocritical performance mixing published research with the spoken word, compound time signatures and basic electronica.

Unique Beatz
Live Music Stage – 4pm

More Music have been working with disabled young people from Unique Kidz & Co for a number of years, creating new music and performing as Unique Beatz. This year, they have written new songs about how they feel about climate change which they will be performing at our festival.

REMa Grace
Alexandra Park – 4.20pm

REMa Grace (pronounced Remma – she/they) is a Cumbrian-Filipino artist and activist, experimental outdoor practitioner, amateur agroecologist / farmer of decomposers, & Creative Director of not-for-profit radical arts company Mycelium Thinking CIC

Her animistic artistry and performance is deeply down-to-earth. Her teachers, and co-conspirators, are ‘rotters’; underground species, fungi, and holy worms. Through tuning into her local Cumbrian terrains, and connecting with diverse human & non-human voices, she explores our transition to more wild and liberated ways of being.

Rice
Live Music Stage – 4.30pm

Rice is a psychedelic trio band based in the North-West. Comprised of only a guitarist, bassist, and drummer, this band boasts a sonic depth and power that is truly greater than the sum of its parts. Blending vibrant melodies with eclectic rhythms and tripped-out textures, this band’s repertoire of original music is truly as unique as it is exciting! Taking the listener on an electrifying journey of catchy tunes, captivating lyrics, and spontaneous solos, Rice explores different sonic worlds seamlessly with both style and grace. With sounds somewhere between the vintage blues-rock of Jimi Hendrix and the futuristic indie-pop of Tame Impala, Rice is guaranteed to take you on a genre-bending musical trip unlike any other! Definitely not a band to band to miss.

Poetry and Spoken Word

Emily Hennessey
Food and Storytelling Space – 12pm, 1pm, 3.35pm, 4.30pm

Stories for all ages! Expect dragons and trolls, brave children and wicked witches, trickster spiders, cheeky monkeys and plenty of fun and nonsense with storyteller, Emily Hennessey.

Tenderfoot Theatre
Food and Storytelling Space – 12.30pm and 2.40pm

Two thought probing spoken work pieces from Tenderfoot Theatre entitled ‘Rooted’ and ‘Heirloom’.

‘Rooted’ is spoken from the perspective of a man at the end of his life, the piece celebrates the most important onlooker to our lives, nature herself. The one constant, passive and all-seeing. She is there to witness our greatest highs, our lowest falls, and everything in between – an ode to life’s smallest but most precious moments. With nostalgia at the heart, share glimpses of our speaker’s life through the lens of natural space with Rooted.

With fast fashion not looking to slow down any time soon, ‘Heirloom’ asks the question: What stories lie in the threads of your forgotten clothing? Each stain, loose thread and hole are landmarks on the small wearable maps in our wardrobe and, with enough wear, each garment becomes a biography.

Ned Longdon
Food and Storytelling Space – 1.30pm
Alexandra Park – 3.30pm

Windswept narrative poetry, drawing upon the natural world, and our relationship with it, in order to build a better understanding of human emotions and behaviour.

DANCE

Ludus Dance

Alexandra Park – performances at 12.30pm and 2.30pm plus a workshop at 1.30pm

‘A Second Life’ is a playful collaborative performance by young dancers that responds to the fast fashion industry. Raising awareness about responsible use of materials and the positive actions we CAN take on a daily basis , collectively and as individuals. Created by Ludus’ Youth Dance Company members and Ludus staff (Sophie Barrow, Sara Marques)