CluthaFEST
Glasgow has a new Festival series across its' calendar and it launches on Friday 29th August at one of the City's favourite venues, The Clutha Bar!
About CluthaFEST
| 29th Aug 2025 to 1st Sep 2025 | |
| See event website for details | |
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The Clutha Bar 167-169 Stockwell Street, Glasgow City Centre G1 4SP |
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| This is a free event | |
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The Stockwell Street venue, famous for bringing us entertainment legends such as Billy Connolly, Frank Zappa, Spike Milligan, Woody Guthrie, Alex Harvey and literally thousands of acts, presents Clutha Fest 1.
Spread over 4 days and on 2 stages, 18 acts, hand-picked by in-house booker Murray Dent-Jones along with South Side Sessions’ Crawford Smith, will perform a series of sets featuring Ska, Rock, Pop, Jazzed up classics, Indie, Blues and and and... well, you get the picture.
The chosen few are; Gus Munro, Crawford Smith, Howlin’ Radio, The Wolves, Skaledonia, Zoe Tait – Ladybug, We Funky Few, Merle Hagrid & The Dangers, The CC Boys, Drunken Angel, The Clutha Kids, Grace DEE. Amie Huckstep, Rachelle Rhienne, The Tufty Club, Grace N’ AT, Toby and Lindsey Brown, The Background Sounds.
Closing the show from 8.30pm on Monday 1 September, your hosts will be The Clutha’s regular wonderfulness that is The Trad Jam session.
2 Stages? 2 Stages? Yes indeed. Clutha Trust Founder Alan Crossan “as a progressive enterprise, we want to expand the choice and variety at The Clutha while enhancing Glasgow’s night-time culture. A second outdoor stage was always on the cards as we plan a series of festivals across the year. This will not only connect the fantastic talent the city has to offer with our patrons but will provide a link from Glasgow Green to the City Centre through our closing of Clyde Street during these festivals. Everything we do is geared to generating funds, supporting The Clutha Trust’s work, with the focus as ever, on empowering vulnerable young people through the arts.”
This second stage, a prime location overlooking The Clyde, increases opportunities for performers from all over. With a remit to expand the content, diversity and profile of The Clutha Trust, the newly appointed Festival Director Clive Leighton enthused “we’re all really excited about building on the entertainment legacy of The Clutha with the wider potential that comedy, music and theatre brings. We’re looking for collaborative support from those in the hospitality, performance, sport and leisure sectors to get onside with our newly launched Clutha Competitions. Working with A&R Digital we’ve created a series of lottery style competitions with one-off prizes such as a signed Paul Weller guitar and last week one winner attended Oasis in Murrayfield”.
Clutha Fest 1 runs from Friday 29 August to Monday 1 September inclusive
Attendance is free of charge.
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