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Feb
Headliners revealed for Harrogate house music festival
Armand Van Helden and The Shapeshifters are among the acts set to headline a house music festival in Harrogate.
Love to Be Festival will return to the town this September following its inaugural festival on the Stray last year.
The festival, which took over the Oatlands Drive section of the Stray, saw thousands of people descend on the town to enjoy nostalgic tunes from the likes of Roger Sanchez, Happy Mondays’ Bez and Darius Syrossian.
People came out in their droves to turn the clock back to the 1980s and 90s, with one stage dedicated to Ibiza’s iconic Café Mambo and an open-air main stage, playing the biggest dance songs of the decades.
Now, local house music lovers can get ready to do it all again.
This year's festival, hosted by Sheffield-based record label and events company Love to Be, will see American DJ Armand Van Helden - whose career spans three decades and song 'My My My' has more than 113 million streams on Spotify - and creators of ‘Lola’s Theme’, The Shapeshifters, take to the stage.
TV presenter and radio host, Gok Wan, who boasts more than one million followers on Instagram, will also perform at the festival.
People can also look forward to sets by Marshall Jefferson, Trimtone, K-Klass and many more.
Love to Be claimed nothing as big as its festival has been held on the Stray and the upcoming event will be a “full festival production”.
Expect house music, dancers, stilt walkers and fire breathers, the company said.
Love to Be Festival Harrogate
A spokesperson for Love to Be previously told the Stray Ferret the second festival will have a bigger capacity, more artists and more stages.
Marc Dennis, operations director at Love to Be and another name on this year’s line-up, told the Stray Ferret today:
After the huge success of last year, which was above and beyond expectation, we can't wait to be back on The Stray with one of our biggest ever line-ups!
The atmosphere was fantastic in 2024, with the local community embracing such a high-level event in Harrogate and post-event feedback was so positive. This year, we take things up a level with some exciting changes to the site and, of course, one of the biggest global names, Armand Van Helden.
Love to Be Festival in Harrogate. Credit: Charlie Mitchell
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