Major new music festival announced for Roundhay Park in Leeds

Julia BrysonBBC Information, YorkshireGetty ImagesThe organisers of All Factors East in London (pictured) will collaborate with Leeds Metropolis Council to placed on the occasion subsequent yearA model new music pageant will happen at Roundhay Park in Leeds subsequent summer season, town council has introduced.The occasion, named Roundhay Pageant, would act as a “fantastic showcase” for town, based on council chief James Lewis.The park, which covers over 700 acres (280 hectares) and which is believed to be one of many greatest metropolis parks in Europe, has beforehand performed host to celebrity artists akin to Madonna, The Rolling Stones and Michael Jackson.The pageant would entice massive identify performers and lift the profile of Leeds each nationally and internationally, in addition to “delivering an vital enhance to the native financial system”, Lewis mentioned.Final month, councillors voted to permit crowds of as much as 69,999 to attend occasions at Roundhay Park, which is three miles north of town centre.The final time the park hosted a live performance with a similar-sized crowd was when Ed Sheeran performed in 2019, when its capability was briefly elevated to 80,000.Dan Bater/BBCRoundhay Park in Leeds contains a lake and huge quantities of inexperienced spaceThe pageant could be placed on in collaboration with promoters AEG Presents, the organisers of London’s BST Hyde Park and All Factors East festivals, the council mentioned.AEG mentioned the occasion would see stay music from among the world’s greatest stars, with the primary headliner anticipated to be introduced as early as subsequent week.In addition to internet hosting well-known artists, the pageant would additionally function a midweek programme of free actions, offering a platform for native expertise and inspiring steady use of the park through the summer season, a spokesperson for the organisation mentioned.In the meantime, a partnership with Roundhay College would supply college students the prospect to get entangled within the stay music business and occasion administration, offering abilities and perception into alternatives within the artistic industries, they added.The pageant would additionally have interaction native suppliers, make use of native employees and enhance spending on lodging, meals and leisure, the spokesperson mentioned.Sarah Jeynes/BBCRoundhay Park’s capability was briefly expanded to 80,000 individuals for Ed Sheeran’s gig there in 2019Lewis mentioned the pageant would convey “among the greatest names in music to Roundhay Park as soon as once more”.”The park is a superb setting for concert events, as legendary artists like Madonna, U2 and the Rolling Stones will know from their very own fondly-remembered appearances there,” he mentioned.”Roundhay Pageant will act as a beautiful showcase for our metropolis, elevating its profile with nationwide and worldwide audiences whereas delivering an vital enhance to the native financial system. “I am certain music followers, not simply in Leeds however throughout the area and past, will agree with me once I say, ‘roll on subsequent summer season’.”