Gloucester Tall Ships Festival

Get ready to Rock the Dock! ⚓

Tall Ships Festival loves live music, and 2024’s extravaganza will be the first to fill three stages with some of the UK’s biggest festival favourites. Expect big beats, DJs in submarines, and mash-ups of your favourite genres with folk, roots and shanty meeting hip-hop, ska and rap, and traditional music brought bang up to date.

Fresh from Eurovision in 2023, and outside of its Liverpool home for the first time, the blue and yellow Submarine Stage is landing in Victoria Basin to bring you live DJ sets (and bubbles) all day each day of Tall Ships Festival. And on Sunday at 2pm, it’ll play host to the final of the Best Dressed Boat competition.

Gloucester Tall Ships is back for 2022 with a jam-packed schedule of family fun and entertainment, setting sail over Queen Elizabeth II’s Platinum Jubilee Weekend, Friday 3rd – Sunday 5th June.
Expect the whole of Gloucester Docks to be packed with FREE performers and street entertainers, fantastic traders and maritime entertainment.

Grab a £5 boarding pass to be able to climb aboard the majestic Tall Ships moored up for the festival.

As well as entertainment, Gloucester Tall Ships Festival has a huge range of fantastic traders selling gifts, crafts, street food, drink, homewares and treats. With over 130 traders ready to make your weekend, get ready to enjoy the magnificent maritime action alongside the atmosphere, shopping and live music.