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Govanhill Street Music Festival

SUNDAY 16 AUGUST, 2026 12PM–8PM

FREE

Part of Govanhill International Festival 2026 – continues until 16 August

Parks, courtyards, cafés, shopfronts and community spaces across the Southside will be transformed by artists, collectives and neighbours into a dispersed celebration of grassroots culture, solidarity and public life.

This year’s programme spans live music, DJs, spoken word, performance and outdoor gatherings curated by SNACK Magazine — Scotland’s independent monthly arts and culture guide — Duende Soundsystem, Glasgow’s Latin and global beats collective, Love Music Hate Racism, SANTV, South Asian Network TV, and the Trans+ bloc, led by local queer legend Tami Pein, alongside the Govanhill Baths Creative Canopies programme.

The Community Newsroom becomes the Community Moves Room for the day, a programme of dance and outdoor performance happenings featuring Buff and Sheen, choreographer Vince Virr, Mark Bleakley, Patsy Tchimoa-Ouethy, Rob Heaslip, Clown Ida, El Rboukh and Low-Fi Beatroots Hip Hop Radio.

From tropical rhythms and political dancefloors to queer nightlife spill outs and roaming performance, the festival invites audiences to drift between spaces, follow the sound down side streets and encounter Govanhill as a place shaped collectively, loudly and in public.

FEATURED LOCATIONS INCLUDE:

THE COOPERAGE COURTYARD, 674 Pollokshaws Road, Glasgow, G41
WESTMORELAND PARK, Westmoreland Street, G42
SOUTH SEEDS, 514 Victoria Rd, Glasgow G42 8BG
COMMUNITY NEWSROOM, 82 Bowman Street in Govanhill G42 8LF
QUEEN’S PARK, Langside Rd, Glasgow G42 9QL
TRANSYLVANIA SHOP, 462 Victoria Rd, Govanhill, Glasgow G42 8YU

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