WonderHall Festival, Lytham - Line Up Announced

Tom Jones, Anne-Marie, Russell Watson, Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, UB40 featuring Ali Campbell & Astro and Marc Almond will all headline Lancashire’s brand-new live music festival WonderHall.

The line-up features more than 30 artists performing during the six-day festival taking place in the grounds of historic Lytham Hall from Wednesday August 25 to Bank Holiday Monday August 30.

UB40 has achieved three UK Number Ones – Red, Red Wine, I Got You Babe (ft. Chrissie Hynde) and I Can’t Help Falling In Love with You – not to mention 17 Top 10 singles.

Tom Jones makes a return to Lytham on Friday August 27. The singer will be supported by acid jazz and funk group The Brand New Heavies and singer-songwriter AJ Brown.

Tom performed to Lytham Festival back in 2015 and with a career that has seen him sell in excess of 100 million records, he has won many accolades including a BRIT Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music and a Silver Clef Award for Lifetime Achievement.

Knighted by Her Majesty The Queen in 2006, Sir Tom Jones has amassed 36 top 40 UK hits.

His new album Surrounded by Time has just been released.

Saturday August 28 is headlined by Marc Almond along with Heaven 17, The Fizz (formerly Bucks Fizz), The Real Thing, Sonia, Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers) and Steve Norman (Spandau Ballet) and The Sleevz will all join the event which will be opened with live sets from Fylde coast favourites The Coustics, Touch The Pearl and DJ Fubar.

The pomp and circumstance of the Last Night of the Proms will be celebrated on Sunday August 29 with a headline concert from celebrated tenor Russell Watson. He will be accompanied by The Heart of England Philharmonic Orchestra with support from soprano Emily Haig and big band jazz singer Mark Kingswood, while Lytham Community Choir will open the picnic-proms concert.

Russell’s first album The Voice raced up the UK classical chart and held the number one spot for a world record 52 weeks. At the same time, he held the number one spot in the USA, making him the first British male artist to attain a simultaneous transatlantic number one. The Voice subsequently became the first and only album by a UK classical artist to achieve 1M in sales.

Closing WonderHall will be Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra on Bank Holiday Monday August 30. The boogie woogie pianist will be joined by former Squeeze bandmate and drummer Gilson Lavis with special guest Eddi Reader. Vocalists Ruby Turner, Louise Marshalland and Marisha Wallace will also perform, and the picnic-style event will be opened by Lytham St Annes Shanty Crew.

Tickets are priced from £25 and go on sale at 5pm Thursday April 29 from www.wonderhall.co.uk