Music and running will both still feature as Keswick Mountain Festival is staged as a free online event this coming weekend (15th-17th May).
The annual festival, which regularly attracts Keswick’s biggest crowds of the year, had been due to start on Friday 15th May but was cancelled in March because of the coronavirus outbreak.
Now organisers have announced that a virtual festival will take place over the same three days thanks to some technical wizardry.
Hosted on the festival’s usual Facebook page, the revised schedule still features headline music act DJ Huey Morgan, from the Fun Lovin’ Criminals, as part of a “soundtrack and cocktails” double bill. His playlist will be available on the festival YouTube channel from Saturday evening, with the Lakes Distillery creating step-by-step videos to serve up gin cocktails to accompany it.
There will also be exclusive videos on Friday and Sunday evenings featuring festival speakers Cameron McNeish and Richard Else, while the #MyKMFkilometres challenge starting on the opening day will see runners complete 5k, 10k, 25k or 50k distances, sticking to government guidelines on isolation. There will be competitions and special offers too running across the weekend after organisers teamed up with Land Rover, Bauer Media and Millican.
The festival’s unique mix of live music, sport, speakers and outdoor adventures usually attracts crowds of around 20,000 every year to the spectacular lakeside setting of Crow Park. Officially, the 2020 Keswick Mountain Festival has been put back 12 months and will instead run from 21st-23rd May 2021.
Meanwhile, check their Facebook page for all the virtual Keswick Mountain Festival programme.
