A Community Festival of Music, Creativity and Climate Action

– Live music, dance and spoken word
– Creative Workshops
– Sustainable Merc
– Festival Food

In and around More Music!
Free – everyone welcome!

Produced with More Music’s young producers, the Eco Collective, the festival shows small, connected actions by all of us can ripple outward to make a meaningful difference.

There will be four festival areas in and around More Music including:

Curlew Cove
– Featuring live music performances from local and regional artists
– Young musicians from Bay Youth Voices, Unique Beatz, Sing It Out and Stages.
– Musical collaborations with local primary schools West End and Sandylands, and local specialist schools The Loyne, Bleasdale and Morecambe Road
– Live music from Anne- Marie Sanderson, Tilda Gebhardt, Greenhouse, Kairos and more

More Music Gallery
– New photography exhibition created by young people from Assembly Arts, inspired by the themes of the festival and in response to a creative brief from Eco Collective.
– Interactive electronic music and video installation commissioned by Lancaster University and created by sound artist David Shooter working with young musician Liam Cook from Eco Collective. Created in response to Lancaster University research by academic Diego Moral Pombo about glacier shrinkage due to climate change, the public will be able to use Ableton music software alongside Dave and Liam to create a live electronica soundtrack in real time to a video collage of Diego’s research footage and images.

Ragtime Reef
– Local sourced sustainable food from Wrap Ninjas, Global Village Café, Lancashire Youth Challenge young people’s café and Rainbow Frog Bakery.
– Interactive creative workshops with Eden Project Morecambe, poetry with Tenderfoot Theatre, mini-loom weaving with Lancaster Maker Space, composting with Closing Loops/Food Futures and the GoVelo smoothie bubble bike! Live music from Folk O’Lune, On The Beat, Seagull Café, Mike the Mic and Sian Phillips, Pete Moser, plus spoken word from Tenderfoot Theatre.

Octopus Garden
– Try your hand at arts and crafts activities including screenprinting, badgemaking, rope making for bookmarks and bracelets and Hirameki artwork.
– Musical fun for under 5s and their families with the Walking Down The Street Early Years Gamelan as well as performances of new music by local primary schools on the East Street Scrap Gamelan.
– Live music performances will include Baybeat Streetband, Jubacana and Folk O’Lune
– Young people from Ludus Dance will debut a new performance created especially for the festival.

The Three Degrees Festival is made possible through the support of Closing Loops Pots Of Possibility, The Granada Foundation, Lancashire County Council Spacehive crowdfunding campaign, Youth Music, Lancashire Music Hub and Francis Scott Trust.  More Music is supported by Arts Council England, Lancaster City Council and Garfield Weston Foundation.