Join us 22 May–1 June for a world of different experiences.

The high-level 2025 United Nations Conference to Support the Implementation of Sustainable Development Goal 14: Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development (the 2025 UN Ocean Conference) will be held in Nice, France, from 9 – 13 June 2025, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica.

The overarching theme of the Conference is “Accelerating action and mobilizing all actors to conserve and sustainably use the ocean”. The Conference, comprising an opening segment, ten plenary sessions, ten Ocean Action Panels and a closing segment, aims to support further and urgent action to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development and identify further ways and means to support the implementation of SDG 14. It will build on existing instruments to form successful partnerships towards the swift conclusion and effective implementation of ongoing processes that contribute to the conservation and sustainable use of the ocean. The Conference shall adopt , by consensus a brief, concise, action oriented and intergovernmentally agreed declaration, which along with a list of voluntary commitments, will be referred to as “Nice Ocean Action Plan”.

The Conference will involve all relevant stakeholders, bringing together Governments, the United Nations system, intergovernmental organizations, international financial institutions, other interested international bodies, non-governmental organizations, civil society organizations, academic institutions, the scientific community, the private sector, philanthropic organizations, Indigenous Peoples and local communities and other actors to assess challenges and opportunities relating to, as well as actions taken towards, the implementation of Goal 14.

The President of the General Assembly will convene a one- to two-day preparatory meeting, in July 2024 at United Nations Headquarters in New York. From 7 to 8 June 2024, Costa Rica will organize a High-level Event on Ocean Action entitled “Immersed in Change” in San Jose to contribute to the UNOC3 and its outcomes.

The UN Secretary-General has appointed the Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, Mr. Li Junhua, as the Secretary-General of the Conference to oversee its preparations; and the Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs, Mr. Miguel de Serpa Soares, as Special Adviser to the Presidents of the Conference on ocean and legal matters.

Garden Melodies: an evening Folk music amid the foliage

Folk Singer, conservationist, song collector and activist - Sam Lee has been called many things and on Sunday 15th June Homecoming is proud to call him our headline act.

Sam's voice has helped challenge what old songs hold for us today. With his latest critically acclaimed and Mojo Album of the Month ‘songdreaming’, he summons a truly compelling and emotional musical experience and we're excited to see what he does on our Field Stage.

On the night you will find a venue with a view of the ocean and in the heart of Heligan's regenerative farm - a covered performance area, licensed bar and kitchen with food cooked by our in house chefs using ingredients grown at home.

Our gates will open at 6 pm allowing attendees the opportunity to walk through our romantic gardens and enjoy food and drink beforehand - a truly Heligan experience rooting those attending with a sense of home.

As the sun sets on the solstice weekend, the Mercury-nominated artist brings a special performance to the magical setting of the forested amphitheatre at Thorington.

There could be no more wonderful setting for an evening with Sam Lee – whose work and craft are so infused with nature and folklore – than the idyllic woodland theatre at Thorington. Events there proceed whatever the weather, and while the trees offer some protection from sun and rain, it is exhilarating to experience music in such close connection with the natural world.

Sam – a former Snape residency artist and a much-loved member of the Britten Pears Arts family – will be coming straight from his Summer Solstice gig at Stonehenge, the perfect prelude to this light late evening of heart-warming music.

For more information about the venue, please visit the Thorington Theatre website.

Proud to be supporting the wonderful Ludovico Einaudi on his Summer UK Tour

After selling out 2 Palladium dates in 90 minutes and five nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, the longest headline run ever by a pianist at the historic venue.

Ludovico Einaudi's new album, The Summer Portraits will released at the end of January 2025.

Proud to be supporting the wonderful Ludovico Einaudi on his Summer UK Tour

After selling out 2 Palladium dates in 90 minutes and five nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, the longest headline run ever by a pianist at the historic venue.

Ludovico Einaudi's new album, The Summer Portraits will released at the end of January 2025.

Proud to be supporting the wonderful Ludovico Einaudi on his Summer UK Tour

After selling out 2 Palladium dates in 90 minutes and five nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, the longest headline run ever by a pianist at the historic venue.

Ludovico Einaudi's new album, The Summer Portraits will released at the end of January 2025.

Proud to be supporting the wonderful Ludovico Einaudi on his Summer UK Tour

After selling out 2 Palladium dates in 90 minutes and five nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, the longest headline run ever by a pianist at the historic venue.

Ludovico Einaudi's new album, The Summer Portraits will released at the end of January 2025.

Proud to be supporting the wonderful Ludovico Einaudi on his Summer UK Tour

After selling out 2 Palladium dates in 90 minutes and five nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, the longest headline run ever by a pianist at the historic venue.

Ludovico Einaudi's new album, The Summer Portraits will released at the end of January 2025.

Proud to be supporting the wonderful Ludovico Einaudi on his Summer UK Tour

After selling out 2 Palladium dates in 90 minutes and five nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, the longest headline run ever by a pianist at the historic venue.

Ludovico Einaudi's new album, The Summer Portraits will released at the end of January 2025.

Proud to be supporting the wonderful Ludovico Einaudi on his Summer UK Tour

After selling out 2 Palladium dates in 90 minutes and five nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, the longest headline run ever by a pianist at the historic venue.

Ludovico Einaudi's new album, The Summer Portraits will released at the end of January 2025.

Proud to be supporting the wonderful Ludovico Einaudi on his Summer UK Tour

After selling out 2 Palladium dates in 90 minutes and five nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, the longest headline run ever by a pianist at the historic venue.

Ludovico Einaudi's new album, The Summer Portraits will released at the end of January 2025.

Proud to be supporting the wonderful Ludovico Einaudi on his Summer UK Tour

After selling out 2 Palladium dates in 90 minutes and five nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, the longest headline run ever by a pianist at the historic venue.

Ludovico Einaudi's new album, The Summer Portraits will released at the end of January 2025.

Proud to be supporting the wonderful Ludovico Einaudi on his Summer UK Tour

After selling out 2 Palladium dates in 90 minutes and five nights at London's Royal Albert Hall, the longest headline run ever by a pianist at the historic venue.

Ludovico Einaudi's new album, The Summer Portraits will released at the end of January 2025.

There is so much to look forward to at this year’s King’s Lynn Festival! Fans of all kinds of music and all ages will have a great time.

TAPESTRY Festival is a brand-new, free music festival taking place in the heart of Southampton on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 July 2025. Set against the dramatic backdrop of the city’s medieval walls, the festival transforms Westquay Esplanade into a stage for outstanding live music, original commissions, and unforgettable performances.

Across two summer days, audiences can experience an inspiring mix of world-class artists and exceptional Southampton talent, brought together in a vibrant programme that draws on musical traditions from across the UK and beyond — echoing Southampton’s identity as a city shaped by movement, migration and exchange.

Alongside the music, visitors can enjoy food and drink from local vendors and explore everything the city centre has to offer – all just a short walk from Southampton Central Station.

Join us for TAPESTRY – a weekend of music that crosses borders, generations, and genres, right here in Southampton.

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"Folk Holidays" Náměšť nad Oslavou is an extraordinary music Festival. During 8 days, the audience is surrounded by the charming environment of the Naměšť Renaissance chateau, chateau park, adjacent environs of the Oslava river in the town as well as outside the town.

Every evening music programme of the Festival has its theme, its set up, with no genre borders - world, ethnic and folklore music, jazz, rock, folk, classical music. For the coming musicians the Festival often is an inspiration for an untraditional special concert - it is not unusual that they stay for several days, even just as spectators in the audience or as workshop participants.

The Festival is not just the evening concerts at the chateau courtyard. During the Festival days a number of workshops take place - you can e.g. learn to play the basics of some interesting musical instrument, jam and talk with musicians, who the previous evening enthused the courtyard, create your own drawings, paintings, silkscreen printings, objects, write your own text and poetry. Several hours in the afternoon belong regularly to so-called "Open Scene", where interesting, less known, music groups perform on a small stage behind the Baroque Hospital in the town by the Oslava river. And at night not only does the Festival camp come alive with music, but also the chapel of the Baroque Hospital.

The Festival is also unusual thanks to the number of international guests. The Folk Holidays Festival is a festival of outstanding music as well as non-music experiences and inspirations.

Join Sam and band for 2 consecutive evenings at Ancient Trance Festival 2025!

Farsund Folk Festival is an international folk music festival in Farsund, Norway. The festival's main focus is traditional music from the countries around the North Sea. The festival is held the last weekend in August every year.

Historically, a successful harvest was celebrated with a delicious meal of local meats, vegetables, puddings, beer and ale, accompanied by singing, drinking games and community spirit. This would all have taken place before St Michael’s Mass, or Michaelmas, on the 29th September.

Sam Lee and Kings Place present their own harvest celebration, bringing in specialist speakers and musicians to present their thoughts and workshop on the idea of the important of local produce, seasonal growing and community.

The songdream continues… the road reveals

Sam Lee’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘songdreaming’ recounts songs of old, come new, tapping into the source of ancient folk narratives connecting us to the natural world. Receiving a 5-star review from The Guardian, this deeply personal body of work emerges from his wide-ranging work as a naturalist, ecological activist, folksong collector and sonic trailblazer.

Sam has crafted a unique reimagining of songs, artfully narrating the kinship between us and our landscapes. The woodlands, rivers, birds and the ancestors who stewarded them.

This is folk music as both map and memory, through visions and revisions, soulful, raw, unrefined, and deeply connected to the soil. This record imagines what creative ‘response-ability’ means in the protection and adoration of our natural and folk heritage.

With Special Guests Spafford Campbell playing alongside the band featuring music from their debut album Tomorrow Held released on Realworld records.

The songdream continues… the road reveals

Sam Lee’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘songdreaming’ recounts songs of old, come new, tapping into the source of ancient folk narratives connecting us to the natural world. Receiving a 5-star review from The Guardian, this deeply personal body of work emerges from his wide-ranging work as a naturalist, ecological activist, folksong collector and sonic trailblazer.

Sam has crafted a unique reimagining of songs, artfully narrating the kinship between us and our landscapes. The woodlands, rivers, birds and the ancestors who stewarded them.

This is folk music as both map and memory, through visions and revisions, soulful, raw, unrefined, and deeply connected to the soil. This record imagines what creative ‘response-ability’ means in the protection and adoration of our natural and folk heritage.

With Special Guests Spafford Campbell playing alongside the band featuring music from their debut album Tomorrow Held released on Realworld records.

The songdream continues… the road reveals

Sam Lee’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘songdreaming’ recounts songs of old, come new, tapping into the source of ancient folk narratives connecting us to the natural world. Receiving a 5-star review from The Guardian, this deeply personal body of work emerges from his wide-ranging work as a naturalist, ecological activist, folksong collector and sonic trailblazer.

Sam has crafted a unique reimagining of songs, artfully narrating the kinship between us and our landscapes. The woodlands, rivers, birds and the ancestors who stewarded them.

This is folk music as both map and memory, through visions and revisions, soulful, raw, unrefined, and deeply connected to the soil. This record imagines what creative ‘response-ability’ means in the protection and adoration of our natural and folk heritage.

With Special Guests Spafford Campbell playing alongside the band featuring music from their debut album Tomorrow Held released on Realworld records.

The songdream continues… the road reveals

Sam Lee’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘songdreaming’ recounts songs of old, come new, tapping into the source of ancient folk narratives connecting us to the natural world. Receiving a 5-star review from The Guardian, this deeply personal body of work emerges from his wide-ranging work as a naturalist, ecological activist, folksong collector and sonic trailblazer.

Sam has crafted a unique reimagining of songs, artfully narrating the kinship between us and our landscapes. The woodlands, rivers, birds and the ancestors who stewarded them.

This is folk music as both map and memory, through visions and revisions, soulful, raw, unrefined, and deeply connected to the soil. This record imagines what creative ‘response-ability’ means in the protection and adoration of our natural and folk heritage.

With Special Guests Spafford Campbell playing alongside the band featuring music from their debut album Tomorrow Held released on Realworld records.

The songdream continues… the road reveals

Sam Lee’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘songdreaming’ recounts songs of old, come new, tapping into the source of ancient folk narratives connecting us to the natural world. Receiving a 5-star review from The Guardian, this deeply personal body of work emerges from his wide-ranging work as a naturalist, ecological activist, folksong collector and sonic trailblazer.

Sam has crafted a unique reimagining of songs, artfully narrating the kinship between us and our landscapes. The woodlands, rivers, birds and the ancestors who stewarded them.

This is folk music as both map and memory, through visions and revisions, soulful, raw, unrefined, and deeply connected to the soil. This record imagines what creative ‘response-ability’ means in the protection and adoration of our natural and folk heritage.

With Special Guests Spafford Campbell playing alongside the band featuring music from their debut album Tomorrow Held released on Realworld records.

The songdream continues… the road reveals

Sam Lee’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘songdreaming’ recounts songs of old, come new, tapping into the source of ancient folk narratives connecting us to the natural world. Receiving a 5-star review from The Guardian, this deeply personal body of work emerges from his wide-ranging work as a naturalist, ecological activist, folksong collector and sonic trailblazer.

Sam has crafted a unique reimagining of songs, artfully narrating the kinship between us and our landscapes. The woodlands, rivers, birds and the ancestors who stewarded them.

This is folk music as both map and memory, through visions and revisions, soulful, raw, unrefined, and deeply connected to the soil. This record imagines what creative ‘response-ability’ means in the protection and adoration of our natural and folk heritage.

The songdream continues… the road reveals

Sam Lee’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘songdreaming’ recounts songs of old, come new, tapping into the source of ancient folk narratives connecting us to the natural world. Receiving a 5-star review from The Guardian, this deeply personal body of work emerges from his wide-ranging work as a naturalist, ecological activist, folksong collector and sonic trailblazer.

Sam has crafted a unique reimagining of songs, artfully narrating the kinship between us and our landscapes. The woodlands, rivers, birds and the ancestors who stewarded them.

This is folk music as both map and memory, through visions and revisions, soulful, raw, unrefined, and deeply connected to the soil. This record imagines what creative ‘response-ability’ means in the protection and adoration of our natural and folk heritage.

The songdream continues… the road reveals

Sam Lee’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘songdreaming’ recounts songs of old, come new, tapping into the source of ancient folk narratives connecting us to the natural world. Receiving a 5-star review from The Guardian, this deeply personal body of work emerges from his wide-ranging work as a naturalist, ecological activist, folksong collector and sonic trailblazer.

Sam has crafted a unique reimagining of songs, artfully narrating the kinship between us and our landscapes. The woodlands, rivers, birds and the ancestors who stewarded them.

This is folk music as both map and memory, through visions and revisions, soulful, raw, unrefined, and deeply connected to the soil. This record imagines what creative ‘response-ability’ means in the protection and adoration of our natural and folk heritage.

The songdream continues… the road reveals

Sam Lee’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘songdreaming’ recounts songs of old, come new, tapping into the source of ancient folk narratives connecting us to the natural world. Receiving a 5-star review from The Guardian, this deeply personal body of work emerges from his wide-ranging work as a naturalist, ecological activist, folksong collector and sonic trailblazer.

Sam has crafted a unique reimagining of songs, artfully narrating the kinship between us and our landscapes. The woodlands, rivers, birds and the ancestors who stewarded them.

This is folk music as both map and memory, through visions and revisions, soulful, raw, unrefined, and deeply connected to the soil. This record imagines what creative ‘response-ability’ means in the protection and adoration of our natural and folk heritage.

The songdream continues… the road reveals

Sam Lee’s critically acclaimed fourth album ‘songdreaming’ recounts songs of old, come new, tapping into the source of ancient folk narratives connecting us to the natural world. Receiving a 5-star review from The Guardian, this deeply personal body of work emerges from his wide-ranging work as a naturalist, ecological activist, folksong collector and sonic trailblazer.

Sam has crafted a unique reimagining of songs, artfully narrating the kinship between us and our landscapes. The woodlands, rivers, birds and the ancestors who stewarded them.

This is folk music as both map and memory, through visions and revisions, soulful, raw, unrefined, and deeply connected to the soil. This record imagines what creative ‘response-ability’ means in the protection and adoration of our natural and folk heritage.

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