Llangollen Fringe Festival 2025
at The Town Hall, Llangollen
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Llangollen Fringe Festival 2025!
Get ready for another incredible Llangollen Fringe Festival, running from July 11th to 20th! We’re bringing you an eclectic mix of music, art, comedy, and culture, set against the stunning backdrop of Llangollen in North Wales.
We’ve just announced an exciting host of headliners, featuring:
★ Adwaith with support from Bau Cat
★ Afriquoi with support from Afro Cluster
★ Alasdair Beckett-King with support from Charmian Hughes, Elaine Robertson, and Paul 'Silky' White
★ Angry Boater
★ Bill Ryder-Jones (Duo) with support from Georgia Ruth
★ Breabach with support from Mooi
★ Cerys Hafana
★ Filkin’s Drift & Taff Rapids
★ Jali Bakary Konteh with support from Panedeni (Duo)
★ London Afrobeat Collective with support from MWSOG
★ Mr. Scruff & MC Kwasi
★ N'Famady Kouyaté with support from Mari Mathias
★ The Tubs with support from Roscoe
And that’s just the beginning! We’re also bringing back Music Around Town series – two days of free live music popping up in venues across town on July 13 & 19. For more info, visit www.llangollenfringe.co.uk/.../music-around-town-25
Plus, we’ve got an exciting lineup of creative workshops for all ages and interests – with more announcements still to come! Check out www.llangollenfringe.co.uk/.../other.../workshops
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Please note that the artists appearing may be subject to change.
Thursday 10th July
Friday 11th July
Saturday 12th July
Sunday 13th July
Monday 14th July
- The Tubs
- Roscoe
Thursday 17th July
Friday 18th July
- Jali Bakary Konteh
- Panedeni (Duo)
- Mr Scruff
- MC Kwasi
Alasdair Beckett-King
Alasdair won New Act of the Year (formerly Hackney Empire) in 2014 and has featured on BBC radio as a comedian and sketch writer. He’s performed stand-up across the UK, in the Glastonbury Cabaret Tent and at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of the Pleasance Reserve. He won the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year in 2017. "Britain's leading New Testament impersonator." - Alasdair Beckett-King “A bold and fresh comedy voice.” The Stage “Delicious writing and exceptional observations.” Chortle “A suave stand up with some killer lines.” Arthur Smith
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Bill Ryder-Jones (The Coral)
Previously the lead guitarist with The Coral, after leaving the band Bill has written many of his own songs and instrumental pieces.
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Cerys Hafana
Cerys Hafana is a musician from Machynlleth. She plays arrangements of Welsh folk tunes and songs, alongside original compositions on the triple harp and piano. Cerys is also a member of Avanc, the Welsh youth folk ensemble, and released her debut solo album, Cwmwl, in 2021.
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Angry Boater
As seen on Channel 4’s Narrow Escapes, Joel Sanders left behind a successful stand-up career in Las Vegas to live out his dream … on a narrowboat. What followed was a hilariously unpredictable journey through the UK’s waterways … and through life. Angry Boater is a smart, sharp and totally original evening of stand-up, storytelling and brutally honest reflections on chasing dreams, letting go of everything you know and floating into the unknown. Deep comedy from shallow waters.
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The Tubs
The Tubs are the new project formed by of Owen ‘O’ Williams and George ‘GN’ Nicholls, best known as two of the primary songwriters in Joanna Gruesome. Also featuring members of Flowers and Garden Centre, The Tubs have impressed live audiences supporting the likes of Flasher, Porridge Radio and Public Practice. Citing an eclectic mix of influences from British folk to post-punk, perhaps the sound that most comes across in Silver Moon is the sort of jangling guitar music more often seen emanating from Australia, via the likes of The Goon Sax or Terry.
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Breabach
Scottish firebrands Breabach are one of the most talked about bands on the folk scene. Their innovative celtic style, blending double bagpipes, flute, fiddle, song and Scottish stepdance, brings to the stage, flare, excitement and diversity rarely seen from such a young group. Their enviable musicianship is coupled with a delightful ability to connect with their audience and has gained Breabach international recognition as one of Scotland’s leading new acts.
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Adwaith
Adwaith are Gwenllian, Hollie, Eva and Heledd from Carmarthen. BBC Music Introducing in Wales have supported them since they first uploaded their music in 2016. They are inspired by artists like The Slits, Happy Mondays and The Velvet Underground, and have been described as “the Welsh Slits playing Johnny Cash songs.”
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Filkin's Drift
Filkin's Drift reimagine traditional melodies through pizzicato grooves, intricate guitar tunes, and boundless improvisation. They're known for their 870 mile foot-powered-tour, which was described as 'committed and fascinating' by BBC 6 Music's Cerys Matthews, and it propelled them into the spotlight. This radical approach to sustainable touring has earned the duo global attention from major news outlets including BBC News, Billboard, The i, Radio New Zealand, Canadian Broadcasting Company, and The Times.
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Jali Bakary Konteh
The latest member of a legendary lineage of West African griots, Jali Bakary Konteh is a London-based kora master, carrying forward Gambia’s rich kora tradition and adding his own innovations along the way.
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Charmian Hughes
Charmian Hughes has been shocking, charming and winning audiences across the country with her visual puns and verbal slapstick. Arthur Smith's Pick of the Fringe, 2014. 'Best gags' (The Independent) 'Humour darker than a bar of Green and Blacks 85%' (Leicester Mercury) 'Charming ribaldry’ (The Guardian) 'Like Josie Long's mum’ (Chortle) 'A good story well told!’ (www.One4Review.co.uk) 'Very good’ (Bruce Dessau).
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Georgia Ruth
An addictive blend of soul, jazz, folk and hip-hop, influenced by the melancholy beauty of the Anne Briggs, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell songs found in her mother's record collection. She is a highly talented harpist too. Raised bilingually in Aberystwyth, Wales, Georgia’s haunting voice has earned her favourable comparisons with the melancholy folk sirens of the late 60s. Her unusual harp playing was inspired more by the guitar on Bert Jansch, Meic Stevens and old folk revivalist records than by the classical method she was taught as a child. She has performed at Glastonbury, Green Man Festival, SWN and several other festivals
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N'famady Kouyaté
N’famady Kouyaté is a young energetic master musician from Guinea (Conakry), who relocated to Cardiff (Wales) in 2019. A talented multi-instrumentalist who wowed audiences across the UK and Ireland during autumn/winter 2019/20 with his modern interpretations of traditional West African Mandingue songs and rhythms supporting Gruff Rhys on the Pang! album tour. N’famady’s primary instrument is the balafon – the traditional wooden xylophone, sacred to West African culture and his family heritage of the griot/djeli. In Guinea he founded ‘Les Héritiers du Mandingue’ a tradi-modern group that toured extensively in West Africa.
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The Town Hall
Castle Street
Llangollen
LL20 8NU
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on Fri 11 July 2025