The fifteenth instalment of the award winning Stendhal Festival takes place this summer and the organisers are looking for artists to perform at it.
Taking place from July 4th to 6th, 2025, the festival will for the first time run for a true weekend from a Friday to a Sunday, with campers heading home on the Monday.
Last year the festival featured headline performances from The Zutons, Heather Small (M People), Hot Chip and Gomez alongside a wealth of local talent. While no announcements have been made around headliners for 2025, you can be sure it will be another unmissable event.
Submissions for all types of performers can be made now via the event website www.stendhalfestival.com and the process will remain open until February 14, 2025.
Event Director Ross Parkhill said: “We say this every year and it still rings true, the submission process is always one of our favourite times of the year. We love discovering new music, new artists and new performers and the submissions always throw up some absolutely brilliant discoveries.“
“We first discovered acts like Ryan McMullan, Soak and JC Stewart through our annual submission process but it’s not just about music. We want to hear from poets, visual artists of all kinds, comedians, dancers, theatre groups and basically anyone who would like to get on stage at Stendhal and wow our audience with something special.”
He added: “We love to see as wide a variety of acts apply as possible, from acts that have just started up to more established acts who haven’t played the festival yet, even acts that have played before and want to come back, we want to hear from everyone and anyone that can make our programme as good as it possibly can be.”Ross concluded: “We have already had a lot of inquiries with regards to acts getting on the bill this year so now is your chance to make it happen but please get your submissions in before February the 14th because any applications received after this date will not be considered for 2025.”
You can get a feel for what it is like to play Stendhal as Rory Nellis, Lavengro, CHERYM & Klyda wrote about their experiences in 2024 in our Artist Diary feature.
