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‘It’s now controlled by the actual people here’: the Cornish town that saved its own music festival
Promoter after promoter couldn’t make Looe’s annual festival work – so landlords and locals came up with their own. We don some glittery face paint and find out how
Amid these losses, one community in south-east Cornwall has salvaged their local festival after commercial promoters couldn’t make it work, with residents, landlords and volunteers stepping in to run the show. Best known nationwide as the setting for the BBC’s Beyond Paradise, Looe is filled in mid-September for the Weekender, with locals and out-of-towners dressed in bright colours, funky sunglasses and flower garlands, and covered in glitter face paint from Hannafore. This year’s local-oriented programme includes a sea shanty group, the Polperro Wreckers; indie rock band Division; local musician and BGT semi-finalist Josh Curnow, also an ambassador for Pentreath Mental Health charity; and music teacher Sharon Ashton, who collaborates with her students.
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