This year’s LIVE in Barnsley FREE Music Festival, taking place on Saturday 18 June 2016 have announced another batch of bands including: Aztec Doll, Four Authors, Pistol Pete Wearn, Ricky Fleming, Jack the Lad, Minus One, Figure of Speech & Mr P, Shades, Electric Luddites, Nova Hands & Framing Witches.

The festival is spread over a number of venues in a fairly compact area of Barnsley town centre and now draws over 4,000 music lovers each summer to the town. The festival was the brainchild of Dave Pearsall and Steve Clifford over a late night pint in a local music venue back in December 2012. 

The aim of the festival is to showcase the diverse musical talents the town and the surrounding northern region has to offer. This strategy has worked well at similar metropolitan music festivals such as ‘Sheffield Tramlines’ and ‘Live at Leeds.

There will be a central merchandising area where bands can sell their CD’s, t-shirts etc. OR they can sell their merchandise in the venue where they are playing. ALL the money from these sales will belong to the band selling the merchandise. LIB makes no charge and takes no cut of sales. 100% all band sales goes to the bands.