05/21/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 05/21/2024 07:45
21 May 2024
The free event on the night of Friday 30 August will be staged in association with Hits Radio, one of the leading networks owned by Bauer Media.
The celebration, which will be held on the Tower Festival Headland, will once again be freely accessible to the public with no tickets required.
Last year's event, which marked a return to the outdoors after three years of being staged indoors due to pandemic restrictions, attracted a record crowd of 80,000 on to the seafront to watch Sophie Ellis-Bextor pull the famous switch.
This year's show will start with a Blackpool Introduces session featuring some of the best of Blackpool's local music talent.
That will be followed by the main event, a two-hour show hosted by Hits Radio and featuring a line-up of some top music talent.
The show will culminate in the iconic switch-on moment when a celebrity will pull the switch to trigger four months of Illuminations.
Cllr Lynn Williams, Leader of Blackpool Council, said:
Jonathan Breeze, North West Regional Sales Director for Bauer Media Group, said:
More details on the live entertainment programme and, of course, the identity of who will switch on this year's Illuminations will be revealed in the coming weeks.
Earlier this year, it was announced that the Illuminations would once again be extended by two months, running nightly until January 5, 2025.
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