First Light Festival

Save the date! 🌅 First Light Festival returns on 20 & 21 June 2026 for another midsummer celebration on Lowestoft’s golden sands. What better way to welcome the actual summer solstice than with a weekend of music, dance, art, talks, wellbeing sessions and more...

A huge thank you to Litter Free Lowestoft, who will once again be supporting First Light with the festival clean-up! 💚 We’re incredibly grateful for your time, energy, and continued commitment to keeping our town clean and welcoming.

First Light’s Vertical Space is a fun, safe zone for young people to game, connect with friends and get creative. Across the festival weekend, expect drop-in sessions and activities including gaming tournaments, DJ sessions, creative design and more. 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/zones/vertical…

Kick off the First Light Festival weekend at our pre-festival Intergalactic Getdown Silent Disco at East Point Pavilion on Friday 19 June! Slip on your headphones, choose your vibe, and groove into another universe. Grab your tickets now 🎟️👉 eastpointpavilion.com/events/interga…

Our festival campervan pitches may be FULL, but we still have WILD BEACH CAMPING PITCHES AVAILABLE — and they’re filling up fast! ⛺🌊 Book now and set up camp amongst the sandy dunes for the full First Light experience... 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/wild-beach-cam…

Retreat into a haven of peace and tranquility at our Wellbeing by the Waves teepee this First Light 🧘‍♀️🌊 Take a look at this year's programme... 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/zones/wellbein…

We’re incredibly excited to welcome Patrick Grant — judge on BBC’s The Great British Sewing Bee and Founder of Community Clothing — to our Interstellar Ideas tent at next month’s Festival. Join us there for what promises to be a fascinating talk. 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/event/patrick-…

Join us for a special Dawn at First Light Festival and celebrate the Summer Solstice sunrise from the most easterly place in the UK with a delicious breakfast of fresh fish, new music, and sun salutation yoga... 🌅 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/event/dawn/

When the Saturday sun goes down and night falls on day one of First Light Festival, head to St Peter & St John Church to enjoy a programme of contemporary classical and acoustic music in beautiful surroundings. 🎟 Book your tickets now 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/event/moonlit-…

It’s important that everyone has a fun and safe experience at First Light, so we’ve put together some useful tips to support you and your family during the Festival. Take a look 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/keepingsafe/

In 1 month it's @FirstLight_Fest #Lowestoft. Get there by train! Stay late! We've again teamed up with @greateranglia to run an extra train on the East Suffolk Line #Lowestoft to #Ipswich Saturday night 20 June. Departs 23.12, arrives Ipswich 00.37 #firstlight #firstlightfestival

1 MONTH TO GO! 🌅🎉 The countdown to First Light Festival 2026 is on. Join us for a midsummer celebration on the shimmering sands of Lowestoft’s seafront. See you on the beach! 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com

We have once again partnered with Latitude Festival for 2026 to give our New Dawn headliners @MAGNOLIABAND_UK, and our Play Break headliners Like Optimists, a coveted slot at the festival in July! 🙌 Catch both bands live on our Sunlight Stage at this year’s First Light Festival

Head to The Battery of Ideas across the First Light Festival weekend, where @SPILL_Festival present Leviathan — an imagined dialogue between Suffolk’s fishermen and the colossal Leviathan, a mythological sea creature and witness to ecological collapse. 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/event/leviatha…

Lizzie Berchie is a singer-songwriter and producer who fuses R&B, neo-soul, jazz, reggae and highlife to create her own unique and infectious soulful sound — and we can't wait to hear it on our Sunlight Stage this First Light Festival! 🙌 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/event/lizzie-b…

Did you know? We have over 80 artists, bands and choirs from Norfolk & Suffolk performing at First Light Festival! 🌅 PLUS, more than 100 local organisations, businesses and traders will be there too! #FirstLightFestival #Suffolk #Norfolk

When the Saturday sun goes down and night falls on day one of First Light Festival, head to St Peter & St John Church to enjoy a programme of contemporary classical and acoustic music in beautiful surroundings. 🎟 Book your tickets now 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/event/moonlit-…

Lowestoft’s own alternative rock band, Like Optimists, bring their loud riffs, big hooks and high-energy to the Sunlight Stage for a Sunday morning set that is guaranteed to get the crowd moving this First Light Festival! 🎸 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/event/like-opt…

Space East and @CamoLearning bring their fast and fun rocketry workshop to First Light Festival! 🚀 With no previous space flight experience needed, children can design, make and launch a rocket within a few minutes — which they get to keep forever! 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/event/pocket-r…

Our Cliff Top campervan pitches are now SOLD OUT! 🚐 Some of CampRolo's fully furnished VW campervans are still available, along with campervan pitches at nearby Kirkley & Pakefield Football Club — book now to avoid missing out! 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/festival-campi…

Expect cutting riffs, melodic hooks and blasts of sax-borne unruliness when our 2026 New Dawn headliners @MAGNOLIABAND_UK — a frenetic seven-piece art-punk band from Norwich — take to the Sunlight Stage on Saturday afternoon this First Light! 🙌 👉 firstlightlowestoft.com/event/magnolia/