The Looe Weekender

Aim

To raise funds to help keep the Looe Weekender a free live music festival, for both visitors to Looe & local residents.

The Looe Weekender was formed in in 2021 by a group of publicans, to stage a community-wide FREE live music event - with the music taking place in pubs, clubs, cafes, hotels & other establishments in the beautiful Cornish fishing town of Looe. 

The festival now has around 20 venues and, across the three days, close to 100 free live music performances are staged. 

In 2025, the Looe Weekender became a constituted organisation to help secure the future of the event through. An organising committee now oversees the structure & promotion of the three-day festival with the following aims:

• To promote a three day, free to enter, live music festival across the town of Looe in SE Cornwall. This event shall take place in local pubs, cafes, restaurants, venues and other establishments – to be known as the Looe Weekender Music Festival
• To promote live music as a way in which to bring the community together
• To help promote Looe as a great place to visitors, & residents, to enjoy a free live music festival, helping the tourism & hospitality sector to extend the season beyond the peak summer period
• To activity encourage more venues to take part and promote free live music during the annual event and to bring this all together as one cohesive programme
• To actively seek to raise funds to help promote & market the Looe Weekender Music Festival to as wide an audience as possible
• To raise funds to help support the general development of the event and to actively seek to develop and build upon the event year on year 

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 21st September 2026 at 11:59pm