Cardiff's Big Weekend | |
---|---|
Genre | rock, Indie, pop, electronic, dance, hip hop, folk, experimental, metal, world |
Dates | August (exact date varies) |
Location(s) | Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom |
Years active | 1995-2011, 2017 |
Website | |
[http://www.pridecymru.co.uk/ |
The Cardiff Big Weekend took place annually from 1994 to 2011 as part of the Cardiff Festival organised by Cardiff Council. Billed as the UK’s biggest free outdoor music festival, it offers three days of quality live music and entertainment. Alongside the live music stage runs the UK’s largest travelling funfair around Cardiff's Civic Centre.
In 2017 the Big Weekend was resurrected and integrated with Cardiff's LGBT Pride parade to form Pride Cymru's Big Weekend.
Pride Cymru brought back the Big Weekend music festival and included their LGBT Pride Parade to reform it as 'Pride Cymru's Big Weekend'. Cardiff City Hall's Lawn, also the end of the official Pride Parade route, is the venue.
The Cardiff Big Weekend, which is usually held the second weekend in August as part of Cardiff Festival, was "rested" for a year in 2012 because Olympic football took place at the Millennium Stadium (in Cardiff) on August 9 and 10. In 2013 the music festival was axed and replaced with a temporary 'Beach' area in Cardiff Bay's Roald Dahl Plass.
Line up also included Chesney Hawkes, Hazel O’Connor, The Christians and Modern Romance.
Dog