{"id":2391019,"date":"2026-04-27T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2391019"},"modified":"2026-04-27T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T08:30:11","slug":"meridian-showground-gearing-up-for-a-packed-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/meridian-showground-gearing-up-for-a-packed-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Meridian Showground gearing up for a packed summer!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Starting to plan your summer weekends? There\u2019s plenty to get in the diary this year at Meridian Showground \u2013 from music events to fun fairs and Armed Forces weekend, there\u2019s something for everyone!<\/p>\n<p>The main summer season kicks off in May, with Race for Life on 10 May, and a fun fair in town from 23 to 31 May.<\/p>\n<p>June starts off the main music festivals, with Fake Fest first on the list on 6 June, featuring lots of great tribute acts from bands through the ages.<\/p>\n<p>Then buckle up for a bumper weekend of music in June, with Pop Live on Friday 12 June, with headliners Scouting for Girls, Heather Small and Sigala, and The Gathering on Saturday 13 June, featuring more than 60 DJs across house, techno, trance, hard dance and classics.<\/p>\n<p>June ends with the wonderful Armed Forces event in the town on the weekend of 26-28 June. This is our annual thank you to our Armed Forces personnel and their families, past and present, with Meridian Showground being used to support the land-based assets once more.<\/p>\n<p>July and August bring a range of different events and more music!<\/p>\n<p>Pencilled in for early July is an Afro Caribbean event, more details coming soon. The Scooter Rally will take on Meridian Showground from 17-19 July, with live bands on both Friday and Saturday. Then the first Saturday in August brings another live music event \u2013 Everybody Loves the Sunshine on 1 August.<\/p>\n<p>Ending the summer will be the traditional fun fair, returning ahead of the August bank holiday, from 12 August to 1 September.<\/p>\n<p>For details, including booking information, visit <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/meridianshowground.co.uk\/\">https:\/\/meridianshowground.co.uk\/<\/a> and you can find out about the area, including lots of things to do, and see, on our sister tourism website, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/DiscoverNorthEastLincolnshire.co.uk\">https:\/\/DiscoverNorthEastLincolnshire.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n<p>Full line ups for Pop Live and The Gathering Fest<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pop Live<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scouting For Girls \u2013 Headliners bringing a full set of anthemic pop hits.<\/li>\n<li>Heather Small \u2013 The iconic voice of M People, performing classics and solo favourites.<\/li>\n<li>Sigala \u2013 Chart\u2011topping DJ and producer known for upbeat dance\u2011pop hits.<\/li>\n<li>Karen Harding \u2013 UK dance vocalist with powerhouse live performances.<\/li>\n<li>Abi Flynn \u2013 Rising pop\u2011soul artist.<\/li>\n<li>Channy \u2013 BBC Introducing artist bringing fresh pop energy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Gathering Fest<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Headliners &amp; Major Acts:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Ben Nicky \u2013 One of the world\u2019s most in\u2011demand hard dance DJs.<\/li>\n<li>Andy Whitby \u2013 UK bounce and hard\u2011dance favourite.<\/li>\n<li>Danny Rampling \u2013 Founding father of UK house music.<\/li>\n<li>David Rust \u2013 High\u2011energy trance specialist.<\/li>\n<li>Judge Jules \u2013 Legendary Radio 1 DJ and dance\u2011music icon.<\/li>\n<li>Lisa Lashes \u2013 The Queen of Hard Dance, renowned internationally.<\/li>\n<li>Sandy Rivera \u2013 House music pioneer and creator of \u201cFinally.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additional confirmed artists: The full extended line\u2011up includes Dream Frequency, Herd N Fitz, Kutski, Lisa Abbott, Shades of Rhythm, Symmetrik, Ultrabeat, and many many more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.nelincs.gov.uk \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting to plan your summer weekends? There\u2019s plenty to get in the diary this year at Meridian Showground \u2013 from music events to fun fairs and Armed Forces weekend, there\u2019s something for everyone! The main summer season kicks off in May, with Race for Life on 10 May, and a fun fair in town from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2391020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2391019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Meridian-Showground-gearing-up-for-a-packed-summer.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2391021,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391019\/revisions\/2391021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2391020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}