Sunderland Echo

Get ready to rock at reschedule­d music festival

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Get ready to rock in 2021 after a popular music festival has announced a reschedule­d Sunderland date.

Having postponed their 2020 summer series due to the pandemic, the Let’s Rock series of festivals have confirmed the reschedule­d dates for summer 2021.

The festival will now take place on June 12, 2021, at Herrington Country Park thousands braved the rain with the same line-up, including to attend last year’s festival, OMD, Billy Ocean, which was held at Herrington ABC, Howard Jones, Sister Country Park in Sledge, Midge Ure’s Electronic­a, June, to see performanc­es Go West, Nik Kershaw. from the likes of Chesney Hawkes, Captain Sensible,

Tickets, and the full lineup T’Pau, Status Quo, Marc Almond, are available from https://letsrockth­enortheast. Betty Boo, Limahl, Owen Paul, Belouis Some, com/ From the Jam, Kim Appleby,

Despite Storm Miguel, Thompson Twins’ Tom Bailey,

Black Lace’s Conga Party and Jason Donovan.

The retro celebratio­n had been due to return to the country park on June 6, 2020.

Original tickets remain valid for the reschedule­d dates, and each ticket is transferab­le to any other of the Let’s Rock locations in 2021.

Each festival is a celebratio­n of retro acts and features a line-up of household names.

It’s the latest large-scale event in the city to postpone with Summer Streets, Lamplight Festival and Sunderland Internatio­nal Airshow all forced to postpone or reschedule their 2020 dates due to COVID-19.

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Let’s Rock the North East at Herrington Country park in 2019.

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