Coastival tickets now on sale
Coastival Various venues
Tickets have gone on sale for some of the main music and art events at the next Coastival festival in Scarborough.
Tickets have gone on sale for some of the main events at the next Coastival arts festival in Scarborough.
It runs from Friday February 22 to Sunday February 24 and will be the 10th anniversary of the festival.
It will be a feast of music, theatre, performance, art and exhibitions, attracting thousands of visitors from across the UK and beyond.
Tickets are available now for one of the main musical attractions, on Coastival Saturday, when an evening of great music at Scarborough Spa’s Ocean Room from 7pm includes headline act Smoove and Turrell, the Newcastle soul and funk band making a welcome return to the festival.
Another highlight will be the Sound of Scarborough concert, at the Ocean Room on the Friday from 7pm, when the best local bands will perform, ahead of the release of a vinyl album of great local music.
Coastival serves up two Fifties’ sci-fi classics, The Creature from the Black Lagoon and Invasion of the Body Snatchers at 1pm and 3pm, in the Spa Music Room on the Saturday.
Coastival Sunday offers the chance to see Scarborough on Film, a dip into historical footage from Yorkshire Film Archive at 1pm and 3.30pm, again in the Spa Music Room.
Tickets for all of these are now on sale from Scarborough Spa box office on 01723) 821888 or via www.scarboroughspa.co.uk
Elsewhere, Coastival will boast a world premiere, when acclaimed stage performer Belle Jones, presents High Land, at Woodend Gallery on Coastival Friday and Saturday. This spoken word piece explores what human beings are capable of when they are placed under extreme pressure – in this case being forced to flee their homes.
Among performance highlights will be a piece by Schwa called A Lark, in which the trio of musicians take classic poetry and set it to music for a celebration of birds. This original and unique piece will be performed at 8pm at Woodend on Coastival Friday and Saturday.
Tickets for these performances will go on sale in the New Year.
The festival has the theme the Greatest of Times and will include a celebration of past events as well as new music, theatre and art.