Newcastle Pride Returns With Three Days Of Free Events

Newcastle Pride, which runs from Friday (July 18) to Sunday (July 20), will offer a whole host of live music and family entertainment across the city’s Town Moor and Times Square, including high profile performances by Sinitta, Shayne Ward, Faye Tozer and the Vengaboys.

Highlights in the three-day event include live music at the Pride in the City stage at Times Square, outside the Centre for Life, from 6.30pm to 10.30pm on Friday and Saturday and from 5.30pm until 8.30pm on Sunday, all sponsored by NE1.

The Main Stage at the Town Moor will also play host to a wide range of performances, including a Champagne and Showtunes evening with The Echo-fonics from 7.15pm on Friday.

This will be followed from 12.30pm until 6pm on Saturday, with appearances by acts including Sinitta, Faye Tozer and Shayne Ward, and from 11am until 5pm on Sunday, when the Main Stage will welcome S Club 7’s Jo O’Meara, X Factor star Lloyd Daniels and Eurodance group The Vengaboys, plus many more.

On both Saturday and Sunday the Town Moor will also play host to a fairground, range of stalls and various entertainment and information zones, including the Family Zone, complete with a sensory space, circus workshop and arts and crafts, the Youth Zone, for ages 12 and above and the Steve Paske Health Zone, which will be offering free advice and STI Testing throughout the weekend.

Before that, visitors have the opportunity to take part in the annual Newcastle Pride parade, which sets of from the Civic Centre to the Town Moor at midday on Saturday.

Mark Nichols, Chair of Northern Pride, which organises the event, said: “This is the biggest Newcastle Pride we’ve ever staged and is now officially the second largest free LGBT festival in the UK.

“We’re expecting more than 65,000 people to attend over the course of the three days and, with such a wide range of activities on offer, I’m sure there’ll be something to suit every taste and age.”

Newcastle Pride 2014 is free to attend, though a number of hospitality and ticket packages are also available at www.safc.com/northernpride.

For more information and full listings for the event visit www.northern-pride.com, follow @NorthernPrideUK on Twitter or download the festival app.