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Liverpool
International Music Festival Is A Hit
Photographs by Patrick
Trollope.
THE replacement for the
Mathews Street Festival was held over the August Bank Holiday
(23 August to 25 August 2013) and was a huge success, despite
being split into 2 locations of the City a good distance apart.
The inaugural Liverpool International Music Festival or LIMF,
might not have been as big as the previous event, but it was far
more controlled as tens of thousands of people descended on the
City, from parents with babies to grandparents, the mix
attending and enjoying the music was quite staggering. Some
businesses who have in previous years benefitted from the extra
trade the last event brought in did say that they were
disappointed as trade was down, other issues were with parking
In the Sefton Park area, but overall the event was a lot safer
and it will be interesting to see how it evolves. Sefton
Park was free to attend, but the Pier Head was not free and was
ticketed. Events this year ranged from the opening night on
Sefton Park with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, to
the closing of the event, again on Sefton Park with the amazing
Soul to Soul group. Other highlights of the festival were the
acts on the Pier Head including Union J; Stooshe; Little Mix;
JLS and Eliza Doolittle on the Saturday. Then on the Sunday,
under the blue sky and the Liverbirds, the acts performing to a
packed out Pair Head included the:- Humming Birds; Nina Nesbitt;
Baby Blue; The Saturdays and Texas, just to name a few... We
would like to say a big ‘well done’ to all who
took part in this event, especially to the stewards from both
Group 4 and Paramount Security. But we have to also congratulate
the Red Cross who did a stunning job throughout the event. If
you attended or have any views on this event, we would love to
hear them, both good and bad. So please do email them to:-
news24@southportreporter.com
and let us know what you thought of this musical extravaganza.
Plus we have put a few pictures on our Facebook
Page. In our view it is
essential you our readers help promote this fantastic event, so
2014's can be bigger and better, so get Facebooking and
Twittering now and show your support for it! To see Part 1 of
our photographic coverage of this event, click on
here
now.
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