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We are thrilled to reconfirm our Leaf Label showcase for Cloudspotting 2021 after losing last year's festival to the pandemic. The Leaf Label was created in 1994 by Tony Morley and relocated to Leeds (from London) in 2006. Over a 27 year lifespan it has released...

For those people who like to kick back and are not ready to leave when the festival officially ends on Sunday afternoon, we have come to an arrangement with the Forestry Commission to allow a Sunday night camp-over.  The Sunday evening will include some low key...

Cloudspotting Festival’s 10th Birthday has been boosted by a project grant from Arts Council England.   The money will help towards some special artistic commissions at the festival and will also help us engage with community groups in arts activities ahead...

As ever, Cloudspotting’s music programme will feature a smattering of returning acts and we have been quite selective in bringing audience pleasers back to share in our 10th birthday celebrations.  This includes a headliner from our very first Cloudspotting...

The first announcement of music acts has been confirmed.   We are delighted to present a record label showcase from The Leaf Label.  The independent Yorkshire-based label – which itself celebrates 25 years in 2020 – features a rich vein of eclectic...

Cloudspotting’s winter arts festival, Snow Moon Festival, took place in Clitheroe town centre on February 8th.  It was a great success and we would like to thank all the participating venues, our wonderful volunteers, the creative arts delivery team, visiting...

If you would like to experience helping at he festival, Cloudspotting has numerous volunteering opportunities to help in the production and safe management of the event.  Anyone interested in joining our team should contact us on email...

In festival terms, Cloudspotting is a bijou event, with a capacity of around 500 ticket buyers.  We pride ourselves on delivering a diverse music line-up across our two music stages for the weekend.  We tend to hunt down the artists we want to perform at the...

All of us at Cloudspotting would like to extend our thanks to our amazing audience, activity deliverers, artists, musicians and volunteers, for making it such a memorable weekend in the forest. The atmosphere was fabulous and the feedback has been very humbling. ...

We have only a VERY limited amount of adult camping tickets left and these will sell out, so please don’t delay if you are intending to come to the Festival!