Roll up, roll up as quirky festival area Riot Jazz returns bigger and more magical than ever before. Riot Jazz is one of Kendal Calling’s best-loved areas that this year embraces the festival fancy dress theme, Fairy Tales & Comic Books, and takes it to the next level.

This year Kendal Calling unveil that the fancy dress theme will be Fairy Tales & Comic Books, a magical all encompassing theme that will see the site transform on Saturday, with the entire congregation encouraged to get involved!

Gearing up to the most anticipated Kendal Calling to date, the team behind the Lake District’s wild weekender are dizzy with excitement and can’t wait to dance with you as they reveal the first headliners who are both acclaimed for the high-octane live shows!

Kendal Calling will be putting a limited number of specially gift-wrapped Christmas festival tickets onsale at 9am on Friday 11th November; tickets will be frozen at last years prize of 95 for this Christmas present sale, along with 50 for 11-15 and under 11's free.

After selling out of tickets in record time, Kendal Calling can reveal the fancy dress theme is woodland creatures turning intergalactic with the Beasts and Machines theme.  Also check out who else is added to the lineup + the lineup's are revealed for a number of stages!

With Kendal Calling 2011 shaping up to be the biggest one yet, the Northern event on everyone’s lips have revealed more world class acts for the line up; House of Pain, Frank Turner (will full band) and Easy Star All Stars are all headed for the mainstage!

After announcing Blondie, Chase & Status and The Cribs as this year’s headliners, Kendal Calling are gearing up for their biggest year yet. With tickets flying faster than ever, KC organisers are advising festival-goers to snap up their tickets to this year’s festival as soon as possible to avoid missing out.

Small Festival winner Kendal Calling announces some massive headliners for this years festival, Chase & Status, cult UK band The Cribs, and the one and only Blondie!

Best Small Festival 2010 winner Kendal Calling returns for 2011, tickets are now on sale and the first set of confirmed acts have now been announced.  With the headliners yet to be revealed, we can let you know that the confirmed acts are the legendary The Levellers, Echo and the Bunnymen, Beardyman, a Northern festival exclusive acoustic set with Tim Burgess & Mark Collins from The Charlatans, and Mr Scruff, with bucket loads of top notch acts yet to be divulged!