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Council axes music festival as surge in costs hits taxpayers
Lancashire Evening Post
|October 03, 2025
Leyland's annual Music in the Park event has been axed amid a surge in the prices charged by artists on the concert circuit - and no sign of the festival breaking even anytime soon.
[Clockwise from bottom left] Go West, Nik Kershaw and Bananarama on stage entertaining the crowd at Music in the Park - but the event is no more
South Ribble Borough Council has staged the retro-themed concert in Worden Park every year since 2022 - but it will not be returning, a meeting of the local authority heard.
The show focused largely on acts who were at the peak of their pop powers in the 80s and 90s - including Bananarama, Nik Kershaw, Go West, B*Witched and Peter Andre.
This story is from the October 03, 2025 edition of Lancashire Evening Post.
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