This year’s Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival offers more than 50 events over 10 days, attracting visitors from overseas and around the UK. The festival has built a reputation for providing a diverse range of musical experiences and allows attendees to fully immerse themselves in the music. With its convenient geography, attendees can easily walk between venues and enjoy all the concerts without any overlap.
This year’s bill shoehorns more than 50 events into the space of 10 days. “It is a busy festival,” concedes the Scot, who is also HCMF’s chief executive. “That’s partly because I think that works in terms of the geography of the place. “We get a lot of visitors from overseas as well as from around the region and other parts of the UK, and I think it’s a festival that’s built its reputation for being a place to immerse yourself in music.
“Of course locals from Huddersfield and nearby will come to a single concert, but I find the majority of people attending the festival are coming for a full day, a couple of days or a weekend. Some come for 10 days, even. So it really has, as I say, built that reputation to immerse yourself in music and to have a great spread of different experiences over the period. “By the geography, I mean people are able to walk from venue to venue and concert to concert. I programme it so that no events overlap, so it is possible to go to everythin
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