Thousands of fans welcomed back the first summer Darwen Live event in three years.
The popular free festival, had like many others, had to be postponed due to the Covid pandemic with a delayed event taking place in October last year.
This year, as the country celebrated the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, crowds were treated to an array of bands and acts from across the UK and locally over two days.
On Saturday, duo Clark Datchler and Mike Nocito of Johnny Hates Jazz wowed crowds as they stopped in Darwen as part of series of UK wide dates. The band is best known for a cycle of hits in the late 1980s, the most successful being Shattered Dreams.
Earlier, Ska Face (above), a ten-piece band from Blackpool, brought something a little different to the Lindley Anwyl main stage.
Fuzzy Sun (above), The Stumble, Free From the Wilde, The Foundations also kept audiences enthralled throughout the day.
The Stumble (above) and Beth Blade and The Beautiful Disasters (below)
(Picture: Darwen Live Facebook)
There were also performances and events in, among others, the Library Theatre, The Bank Bar, The Blackhorse, The Bridgwater, the Crown and Kitchen and Bird in th’hand.
Fans were overjoyed to be back at Darwen Live
Headlining the main stage tonight, Sunday, are seventies legends Hot Chocolate. They will be supported by the Lancashire Hotspots, the Lottery Winners and Inspiral Carpets tribute band the Kar-Pets.
The event is organised and run by volunteers and funded by Darwen Town Council, Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council, and private sponsors.
You can view the line up for today’s events here
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