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WestFest 2024 Programme Launched

WestFest- Glasgow’s biggest cultural and community festival launches their 2024 programme

WestFest, Glasgow’s biggest community and cultural festival today launches the full programme for its 2024 festival, taking place from 1st to 30th June. Bursting with an eclectic array of events, performances, and activities- WestFest has something for everyone.

WestFest 2024 will take place in Glasgow’s West End across the full month of June
and this years’ programme offers a wide variety of content with a smorgasbord of community
events, concerts, theatre, comedy, exhibitions and more…

Highlights

In amongst their 120+ events are some special highlights such as the return of the famous Kelvingrove Outdoor Ceilidh, Bard in the Botanics
and a programme of illustrated talks at the Kelvin Hall.

Free Community Events

Photography Gavin McCourt

For many, the best part of the festival is WestFest’s exciting and diverse
programme of free community events. As well as old favourites such as the Vinicombe Street
Gala, this year will see the return of The Big Sunday @ Kelvingrove Bandstand, the Queen Margaret Drive Festival and thereturn of ‘Drag at The Bandstand’, this years’ festival fundraiser.

Festival Brochure Launch 20 April, 2024

SambaYaBamba photo Jim Byrne

The WestFest team will be launching this year’s festival brochure on Saturday 20th April with a samba band performance tour across the West End from Sambayabamba and Think Circus. The team are inviting folk from across Glasgow to come and join them to celebrate the launch of WestFest 2024!

The timings and locations are:

1pm Kelvingrove Park Stewart Memorial Fountain
2pm Kelvingrove Galleries Front Piazza
3pm Glasgow Botanic Gardens

The WestFest team will be handing out free WestFest brochures at the launch, of which 50,000 will be distributed across the West End and central belt from this week.

WestFest’s Director is Brendon McIlroy who founded the festival in 2022 in response to ‘overwhelming demand’ for community and cultural events in the West End, in the absence of former festivals.

Brendon says, ‘We’re absolutely delighted to be launching WestFest’s 2024 programme. We’ve been hard at it for 6 months, pulling together a diverse mix of events, with our focus this year being to reach further across the West End to produce and feature events in areas we haven’t historically delivered in. After all, the West is bigger than Hillhead ‘

Brendon continues, ‘Things are generally rather bleak for people just now, with the country facing a range of unprecedented challenges. With WestFest we’re focusing on providing some levity and enrichment, and also opportunity for communities to come together. All of the outdoor community events WestFest produce are free and accessible to all… and always will be!’

More information on WestFest Website 

For further info please contact Brendon McIlroy,

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