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Y Not Festival

Y Not Festival
GenreRock, alternative rock, indie rock, dance, world, punk rock, electronic music, reggae, folk, hip hop
DatesLast weekend in July/first weekend in August, usually
Location(s)Peak District, England
Years active2006 – present
Websiteynotfestival.com
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The Y Not Festival is an annual music festival held in Pikehall, Derbyshire, United Kingdom. It began in 2005 at a house party for around 120 people organized by Ralph Broadbent.[1] For the first year, it went under the name of the Big Gin Festival (a play on its location near Biggin in the Peak District). The main stage at the festival has retained this name as The Big Gin Stage. The following year, it was renamed Y Not Festival and was opened to the public. In 2007 the festival relocated to its current site at Pikehall in Derbyshire.

The event has won many awards and accolades for small events, such as best small festival in 2012 and the prize for best grass roots event and best toilets at the 2011 UK Festival Awards.

In 2016, the festival was sold to Global Radio's festival division, Broadwick Live.

In 2019, Y Not Festival was bought back by its original owners.

The festival was not held in 2020 and 2021 due to the covid pandemic, then returned in 2022 as an independent festival.

In November 2022, it was announced the UK-company, Superstruct Entertainment, had acquired a majority stake in Y Not Festival.[2]

  1. ^ "About | Y Not Festival | 28th - 30th July 2023 | Pikehall, Derbyshire". Y Not Festival. Retrieved 31 July 2023.
  2. ^ IQ (18 November 2022). "Superstruct acquires UK's Y Not festival". IQ Magazine. Retrieved 20 November 2022.