Evolution announces acts for FREE shows in NewcastleGateshead

Orange Evolution, the North East’s annual music festival which features over 30 indoor gigs in six venues across NewcastleGateshead over twelve days, and culminates in a massive free outdoor event on Bank Holiday Monday (29th May) when the NewcastleGateshead Quayside is transformed into a major stage set, have announced much of the entertainment for this year.

Selected highlight .... Kicking things off on Thursday 18th May are TWO gigs from The Futureheads. The first at 5pm is an acoustic set in The Sage together with Sunderland based Field Music (£12), while the second has the band playing a set at Newcastle’s Carling Academy (£12.50) showcasing new material from their forthcoming album and collaborations with those who have remixed and reshaped their sound.

Evolution winds up with Bank Holiday Monday’s (29 May) Freevolution event, with three stages of bands from 1pm until 10:30pm, and all free. The Innovation Stage (Spillers Wharf) will see Hard-Fi, Graham Coxon, Freestylers, The Proclaimers, Boy Kill Boy, Sway, Orson, and The On Offs all perform.

The Imagination Stage (Baltic Square) has The Go! Team, Richard Hawley, Jim Noir, Field Music, Liam Frost And The Slowdown Family, The Sunshine Underground, Lorraine, and The Bulletproof Stonelove Sound System, while the second Spillers Wharf stage, the Inspiration Stage has Richie Havens, Hayseed Dixie, Legendary Shack, Shakers, The Handsome Family, Holly Golightly, Mofro, and The Eighteenth Day of May.

For full details of the festival programme for all twelve days, please see the official website.

Jim Mawdsley, Festival Director, said: “As ever audiences can expect something to suit all tastes at Orange Evolution, culminating in a huge free outdoor event on the NewcastleGateshead Quaysides. Music fans will be hard pushed to find a free music festival anywhere in Europe to rival Orange Evolution this year.

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