Liverpool Gospel Music Festival returns with new venue for 2025

Liverpool Gospel Music Festival returns to the city next month – and has announced a new indoor venue for 2025.

The festival will be held at Liverpool Olympia on Sunday, May 4. Tickets starts at £9.25 and children under seven go free.

The first Liverpool Gospel Music Festival was staged in Stanley Park in September 2023 and attracted international and national performers including The Kingdom Choir.

Last year’s planned event was postponed due to the unrest and rioting that followed the brutal murders in Southport.

The 2025 festival will feature a number of acclaimed singers including headliners London Community Gospel Choir and Michelle John, along with Volney Morgan & New-Ye, Love and Joy Gospel Choir, Triple O, Reblah, Lighthouse Choir, Wayne Ellington and Manchester Inspirational Voices, Tofunmi Adorna, Sharyn, Natalie Okri, BIMM Birmingham Gospel Choir and Liverpool Youth Gospel Choir.

The event, described as ‘the UK’s only mainstream gospel music festival’, is organised by Anfield-based charity Liverpool Lighthouse which works to create thriving communities of people living more fulfilled lives, and is supported by Arts Council England among others.

Supporters are Gospel Music Industry Alliance and Nothin But The Music.

And there is also a busy education programme built around the festival.

Anu Omideyi, Liverpool Gospel Music festival director and Music Director at Liverpool Lighthouse, said: "We have some of the best gospel artists in the country such as headliners London Community Gospel Choir and Michelle John who have both sung with the world's greatest artists - including Paul McCartney, Eric Clapton, Justin Timberlake and Annie Lennox - on the world's biggest stages.

“We're so glad to be able to bring many communities from different ethnicities, backgrounds, faiths and no faiths together to celebrate the undeniable power, joy and love in Gospel music."

And Rebecca Ross-Williams, Creative Director of Liverpool Lighthouse, added: “With an incredible line up of Gospel artists and choirs, we know the festival will have the broadest appeal, bringing together audiences and artists from across the city and country.

“Having postponed the festival due to the disturbances last summer we invite the city and nation to join us in what will be the most uplifting and healing experience as an act of joy and unity.”

Liverpool Gospel Music Festival takes place at Liverpool Olympia on May 4. More details HERE