Cumbria’s Kendal Calling has just revealed its lineup for 2025, with a massive list of names for the festival that will take place between July 31 and August 3. Included in the line-up are The Last Dinner Party, The Prodigy and Courteeners and many, many more will grace the Lake District festival to celebrate its 20th edition, with more than 80 acts confirmed so far.
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Since its first edition in 2006, Kendal Calling festival has received critical acclamation and many UK artists have expressed the wish to perform on the Cumbria-based stage. In 2010, after only a couple years since its creation, Kendal Calling was awarded Best Small UK Festival, and in 2011 it won “Best Small Festival” at LIVE UK awards.
The festival ranges through a wide set of genres: from indie’s Maximo Park and upcoming London-based indie artist Siobhan Winifred, BRIT award’s rising star The Last Dinner Party, Leeds’s rock band Kaiser Chiefs, Techno group The Prodigy, “Murder on the Dance Floor” singer Sophie Ellis-Bextor and many more.
But music won’t be the only form of art presented in Lowther Deer Park, where the festival is set to be held in the upcoming year. In fact, organizers have also revealed that art installations will also be present on the festival grounds.
Music Festival Kendal Calling first begun in 2006, as a small-capacity event that welcomed just less than a 1000 people and only lasted two days; the event was held in Abbot Hall Park, and all tickets were sold out before the event. The following year the venue was upgraded due to the extreme demand, and year by year the festival reached higher capacities until reaching a peak of 40,000 attendees last year. Here’s a video posted after the iconic 2023 edition:
But the festival hasn’t reached this level of fame without some struggles: after cancelling their 2020 edition due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, the organizers also took the decision to cancel the following year’s edition, in 2021, due to the lack of fundings after losing out financially in 2020.
Now, the festival has managed to re-start after the pandemic and both organizers and artists are eager to welcome new and old crowds into the grounds of Kendal Calling. The festival made numbers in ticket sales the previous years, with tickets being sold out within days of their release and the lineup announcement. This year is no different. Despite the lineup being only just announced, Kendal Calling’s tickets are already 70% sold out. Tickets can be accessed here.
Here’s the festival’s story told by their organisers:
The organizers of Kendal Calling have revealed that there’s more acts to be announced, but it seems like the artists confirmed so far are enough for fans to plan their summer trip to the lake district.
Watch previous performances at Kendal Calling on their YouTube:
