Did you know First Light Festival is one of the few festivals you can travel to by train and still enjoy a full day on the beach before catching the last train home? 🚆
There are direct train services to Norwich and Ipswich, with onward connections to Cambridge and London Liverpool Street. Once again, @greaterangliauk and East Suffolk Lines will be running a special late-night Saturday service to Ipswich, departing Lowestoft at 23:12. The last train from Lowestoft to Norwich on Saturday departs at 23:20.
For more travel info, head to our website (🔗 link in bio).
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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.
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Born and raised in East London, @lizzieberchie 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! 🙌
With musical influences spanning from Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday to Erykah Badu, Jill Scott and Cleo Sol, Lizzie is set to provide the perfect soundtrack for a midsummer evening by the sea...
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@danceeast return to First Light Festival with another exciting line up in the MoonDance tent — from Ceilidh and Hip Hop to Afro Dance and Baby Loves to Boogie! 🌕💃
Get your groove on and cut some shapes or simply watch some amazing performances unfold over the festival weekend...
#FirstLightFestival #Moondance #DanceEast
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!
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I’ll be serving a lil’ FONK at First Light Festival next month, and bringing the boys, too. Put the date in your diaries and I’ll see you on the beach, bebe ☀️🌊
#funk #soul #jazz #livemusic
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.
Featuring exceptional international and local performers, this wonderfully atmospheric concert brings an eclectic smorgasbord of styles and sounds, transporting you through a magical moonlit dreamscape… 🌕🎶
🎟 Head to the Sundown Events ticket link in our bio to book!
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Lowestoft’s own alternative rock band, @likeoptimists , 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! 🎸
If you love bands like Green Day, Blink-182 and My Chemical Romance, this performance will be right up your street.
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Space East and @camouflagedlearning are thrilled to deliver their fast and fun rocketry workshop for all ages at this year’s First Light Festival! 🚀
With no previous space flight experience needed, families and children can design, make and launch a rocket within a few minutes… which they get to keep forever!
#FirstLightFestival #SpaceEast #CamouflagedLearning #FamilyFestival #Lowestoft
Our Cliff Top campervan pitches are now SOLD OUT! 🚐
Some of @camprolo_lowestoft ’s fully furnished VW campervans are still available, along with campervan pitches at nearby @kirkleyandpakefieldofficial — click the link in bio to book now and avoid missing out!
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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! 🙌
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In case you missed it…
One of Britain’s best-loved character comedians, Simon Day (The Fast Show), is bringing a cast of his most iconic characters to First Light Festival for a special one-night performance at @theseagulltheatre .
Click the link in bio and get your tickets now! 🎟
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