The Cardiff Big Weekend took place annually from 1993 to 2011 and in 2017 as part of the Cardiff Festival organized by

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. It lasted three days and was billed as "the UK’s biggest free outdoor music festival".

The Line Up

2017

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brought back the Big Weekend music festival and included their LGBT Pride Parade to reform it as 'Pride Cymru's Big Weekend'. Cardiff City Hall's Lawn, which was located at the end of the official Pride Parade route, was the venue. Kathryn Williams
This is the line up for this year's Pride Cymru Big Weekend event in Cardiff

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, 12 May 2017, Accessed 19 July 2017

2012

The Cardiff Big Weekend, which is usually held the second weekend in August as part of Cardiff Festival, was "rested" for a year in 2012 due to the Olympic Football games taking place at the Millennium Stadium (in Cardiff) on August 9 and 10. In 2013, the music festival was axed and replaced with a temporary '

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' area in Cardiff Bay's

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2011

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2005

Line up also included Chesney Hawkes, Hazel O’Connor, The Christians and Modern Romance.

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1995

References

External links

Cardiff Big Weekend

Cardiff Festival

Cardiff Big Weekend details from BBC Wales

Pride Cymru
{{Major British Music Festivals Free festivals Festivals in Cardiff Music in Cardiff Music festivals in Wales Music festivals established in 1995 Summer events in Wales