The full five days of music and mayhem launches with the Grand Mardi Gras Ball.
The Ball takes place on Friday 28th February 2025, with an array of musical delights, so dust off your beads and boas and get dressed to impress!
Opening the night is festival favourites Ríoghnach Connolly and Honeyfeet with their eclectic taste for musical adventure. Together, they drive a broad terrain of musical textures, with foot-tapping and floor-thumping dance rhythms.
Then don’t miss the much anticipated return of the legendary Mr Wilson’s Second Liners, a traditional New Orleans style second line band paying homage to the diehard days of the Hacienda and 90s club culture.
Keep on dancing to the tracks spun by two legendary dance DJs Justin Robertson and Jon Carter. Robertson is a producer and dj, who brings with him a rich history as one of the creators of the Electronic Music scene, whilst Carter was instrumental in developing the form of electronic dance music that became known as big beat, with its mix of rock, hip hop and breakbeat.
New for 2025- join the late night party in the White Rock Theatre Studio where Civil Partners (in Crime) Lemur Beats will take you on a genre-blurring, time-hopping journey through house, techno, afro-disko, twisted global funk and more. And make sure you’re suitably dressed to enter the Best Dressed Competition!
Don’t miss it!
