WELCOME TO CARDIFF MUSIC CITY
Music industry updates from Cardiff, Wales.
Cardiff Music City Festival 2026 dates announced
Cardiff Music City Festival returns this October for two weeks of gigs, happenings and installations that harness the power of music and performance to unite and inspire.
NEW FOR 2026 - CARDIFF MUSIC CITY PRESENTS...ST DAVID'S DAY SESSIONS
Fri 27 Feb 2026 - Sun 1 Mar 2026. This year we are celebrating St David’s Day with a weekend of great Welsh music in some of our favourite grassroots venues. Come and explore the city through music and experience Cardiff Market with the return of the popular Market Nights.
All the best pictures as Cardiff Music City Festival 2025 wraps up
Cardiff Music City Festival (3-18 October 2025) – a two-week celebration of music that brought global stars, local legends, fresh new talent and thousands of music fans to venues across the city – has wrapped up after a successful second year.
Funding scheme to encourage more grassroots gigs in Cardiff returns
Cardiff’s music scene is set to get another boost in 2026 as Cardiff Council’s ALLBWN / OUTPUT funding scheme returns, following a successful pilot earlier this year, with an expanded remit to support new and emerging electronic artists and DJs, as well as gigs.
WHAT IS A MUSIC CITY?
Cardiff is one of the fastest-growing cities in the UK and aspires to be a leader in the music cities movement, a standard of urban development which champions and promotes music as a tool for growth.
BEHIND THE SCENE
We’ve been going Behind The Scene of the capital’s music ecosystem. Read on, as we’ll be catching up with artists (either heralding from, or connected to the city), as well the capital’s promoters, venue owners, managers, studios and other music industry professionals…
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