Our music programme is what makes HowTheLightGetsIn unique. Nowhere else are ideas and hedonism so closely intertwined. We know of no other place where Nobel and Mercury Prize winners rub shoulders. We carefully handpick a Festival Live programme that combines favourites with the cutting edge. With over 150 acts still to come, our 2016 lineup includes three 2015 Mercury Prize nominees – C Duncan, the “finest vocalist in the UK” (Daily Telegraph) ESKA, and Ghostpoet – in addition to DJ and broadcaster Gilles Peterson, folk rock legends Fairport Convention, and Grammy nominees Zero 7. We are welcoming backalso hero of glam folk King Charles and BRIT-nominated songwriter Nerina Pallot, and the comedy lineup will be joined by witty master of the art Robin Ince.
Watch this space for more announcements coming soon.
Hay-on-Wye
Set on the edge of the Black Mountains alongside the Wye in the famed book town of Hay is the magical location of HowTheLightGetsIn. Here is where HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s first philosophy and music festival, has just completed its seventh outing.
HowTheLightGetsIn 2016 will once again take place across two festival sites. We’ve grown since we started. But we’ve kept the intimate scale. Our venues are small enough to encourage real conversation, electric enough to make the dancing spin.
The Fat Angel Sings 