Manchester Pride Festival
LGBTQ+ festival is back August bank holiday weekend
Every August bank holiday Manchester is awash with colour as the Manchester Pride Festival rolls into town. The annual event is a celebration of LGBTQ+ culture and this year's festival is set to be the best yet!
Summer 2019 saw the event grow to new locations across the city, and for the first time ever the main music event - Manchester Pride Live, took place at the former railway station, Mayfield, near Piccadilly. Manchester Pride Live will return to Mayfield for its second year and will see a reduced capacity and more toilets on the site to ensure a comfortable experience for those attending.
The internationally renowned festival will come alive across the city with a programme of events curated to appeal to a variety of different audiences to create the charity’s most inclusive event yet.
Tickets to Manchester Pride Festival are available now. Rainbow passes start at £35 for a day pass and £65 for the whole weekend. A rainbow pass entitles festival goers to access to two days at Manchester Pride Live and four days at the Gay Village Party over the bank holiday weekend.
American Idol star and Queen frontman, Adam Lambert is the first artist to be announced for Manchester Pride Festival's live music extravaganza. Keep listening to Hits Radio to be the first to know the full line-up.
Relive Highlights from Manchester Pride 2019
Hits Radio favourites Years & Years and Ariana Grande headlined on Saturday and Sunday respectively. There was a chance to see Cheryl, Becky Hill, Emeli Sandé, Louisa, Basement Jaxx and a whole host of other fantastic artists, some of who we caught up with.
Hits Radio presenter Jordan Lee spoke to Louisa backstage at Manchester Pride 2019, where she told him why this event was particularly special.
Jordan also caught up with the fantastic Pixie Lott, Becky Hill and breakthrough artist Kim Petras. Pixie Lott arrived for her interview getting a piggyback from a friend! The singer admitted she'd forgotten to bring some shoes to wear as she likes to perform barefoot!
And it wasn't just the pop stars that Jordan caught up with at Manchester Pride 2019, he also spoke to the cast of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK! That's right, the UK is getting our very own version of RuPaul’s Drag Race, and we thought we'd play Never Have I Ever with them. See how it got on below...
See all of our celebrity interviews from the weekend at Manchester Pride 2019.
Take a look through our photos from the Manchester Pride 2019:
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