Shortlisted in the 2024 UK Festival Awards.
Experience the joy and excitement of live music, and let yourself be swept away in a place where everyone belongs. The 18th Gate To Southwell Festival takes place from 3rd to 6th July 2025, again in the beautiful lakeside setting where we've been since 2021, 4 miles from the market town of Southwell, in rural Nottinghamshire. We've had glowing reviews, including from RNR Magazine on the 2024 festival, "...how brilliant is that? What a great festival!" and previously "excellent cast list...too many good performances to mention. It has become a great favourite, if you haven't been already, try it"
We're a not-for-profit organisation run by enthusiastic and experienced volunteers who love staging what 2023 festival-goers described as "quite possibly the best small folk and roots festival in the UK"! Any surplus income we generate is ploughed straight back into future events.
News...
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Big news for 2024 was the introduction of a cover for our main stage (The Lake Stage). The Folk Stage remains in a marquee, and our third stage (The Frontier Stage) is fully open (there are 6 other stages and performance areas on site too). See the about us page here.
Line-Up 2025
First of 60 artist announcements happening now...