WestFest, a cultural and community festival will launch its full programme tomorrow.
The annual celebration promises a colourful array of more than 120 events, performances, and activities across the full month of June.
Some special highlights will include the return of the famous Kelvingrove Outdoor Ceilidh, Bard in the Botanics and a programme of illustrated talks at Kelvin Hall.
The festival will see the return of the Vinicombe Street Gala, The Big Sunday at Kelvingrove Bandstand, the Queen Margaret Drive Festival and ‘Drag at The Bandstand’.
The brochure will launch tomorrow, with a samba band performance tour across the West End from Sambayabamba and Think Circus.
You can find them at Kelvingrove Park Stewart Memorial Fountain at 1pm, Kelvingrove Galleries Front Piazza at 2pm and the Botanic Gardens at 3pm.
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Brendon McIlroy, WestFest’s director, founded the festival in 2022 in response to "overwhelming demand" for community and cultural events in the area.
He said: "We’re absolutely delighted to be launching WestFest’s 2024 programme this week. We’ve been hard at it for 6 months, pulling together a diverse mix of events, with our focus this year being to reach further across the West End to produce and feature events in areas we haven’t historically delivered in. After all, the West End is bigger than Hillhead.
"Things are generally rather bleak for people just now, with the country facing a range of unprecedented challenges.
"With WestFest we’re focusing on providing some levity and enrichment, and also opportunity for communities to come together. All of the outdoor community events WestFest produces are free and accessible to all and always will be."
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