A message from the Coleford Music Festival Team.
After some incredible years of music and memories, it’s time to press pause, just for now.
Over the years we’ve been lucky enough to welcome an incredible line-up of artists and performers to our stages and are immensely proud to have championed so much homegrown talent.
But… we are taking a year out to reflect, regroup and reimagine the future of Coleford Music Festival after a tough couple of years of rising costs and significant funding challenges.
We are certainly not the only ones to be affected in this way, so we have decided to put as much energy as possible into raising funds and awareness this year in order to carry on for 2027 and beyond.
We will use this year to work with our local communities and partners to build a sustainable future for the festival and call upon the festival’s dedicated supporters to play an active role in shaping its future through membership programmes, holding fundraising events, sponsorship opportunities, putting forward your ideas for future festivals, or by becoming a volunteer.
Coleford Music Festival was due to take place in July 2026
However, it is hoped that a ticketed music event will take place towards the end of the summer to provide much-needed funds to keep the festival going, look out for details on our website www.colefordmusicfestival.co.uk soon.
Please continue to support local festivals and independent music venues, keep the live music scene thriving in the Forest of Dean.
Thank you to you all, we hope to see you soon.
Coleford Music Festival will return to the street of Coleford over the weekend of 10/11 July 2027 – save the date!
The Coleford Music Festival Team
Please contact us here if you would like to help shape the future of CMF……
A fantastic free outdoor festival in COLEFORD TOWN CENTRE held every summer featuring an eclectic mix of music, art, culture & community…Everything from jazz, indie, blues, rock, ska, rockabilly, folk and much more….Come along and support the event Enjoy some good music & have some fun!
The festival consists of the Clock Tower Stage featuring the best of local bands with national headliners to finish,The Roots Stage featuring the best of jazz, blues, country, The St Johns Street Stage featuring new bands from the area, and an acoustic area, lots of children’s entertainment & workshops, street food, stalls & local produce.
The Festival prides itself on being extremely friendly, relaxed and an opportunity for families and all generations of people to come together and enjoy themselves.
Take Part
Take part in the festival! Register your own event or run an activity in our festival programme or perform on one of our community Festival stages. More Here
Volunteer
Join the Festival and come have all the fun with the team! Join us as a volunteer at one or more of our great community events taking place this summer. More Here
SUPPORT OUR FESTIVAL
It is organised by a not for profit group in partnership with Coleford Town Council and with the help of many passionate unpaid volunteers.
It is funded through some grants and sponsorship but we rely heavily on the generous donations and support of people like you to raise the money required to stage the Festival every year. We really need your help now and for future festivals.
You can help support the festival in the following ways:
- Drop donations off in person to Coleford Tourist Information Office, 4 Mushet Place, Coleford, Glos GL16 8BQ
- Drop donations off at Coleford Town Council
- Put some money in one of our buckets at the festival
- Donate online here. https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-coleford-music-festival
Without your donations, our festival wouldn’t be possible. So, thank you, in advance for any help you can give!
Our Festival Goers!
“The best free weekend of live music anywhere. Our little town does us proud evertime and it was great to have it back
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“Our first visit to the Coleford Music Festival, we found it advertised when visiting earlier this year but really you do keep a fabulous event a little hidden. An amazing range of music with all stages fairly close together so you can pop from one to another. Really great artists, very well run, a real credit to all those who must work amazingly hard to pull it off. We’ll definitely look out for next year’s date and add it to our diary. Coleford you are a lucky town, I wish our town had something half as amazing as this.“
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