Enjoy Family Fun and Festivals in Swansea Bay this June
From the roar of jets over Swansea Bay to open-air theatre in the grounds of a Norman castle...
From the 19th until the 21st of June this summer, the Unearthed Festival returns to Pembrokeshire for its 14th year. It's the perfect pick for a hen and stag celebration!
Headlining the main stage is Roni Size, Bristol's most decorated musician, whose Mercury Prize-winning album New Forms (credited to Roni Size & Reprazent) took drum & bass from underground clubs to global stages in 1997. Joining him is Omega Nebula, the Bristol-based husband and wife duo whose future-dub sound — rooted in Jamaican sound system culture, dub reggae and bass — has built one of the city's most passionate live followings. Bristol DJs and producers Optimystic and Sanial complete a line-up.
Unearthed is deliberately not a large festival. Set on ancient Celtic land in one of the most remote corners of Wales, it runs five stages across music, wellness, circus, theatre and kids' programming — intentionally small enough that by the second day, most faces are familiar.
Long-time attendees compare it to the early days of Glastonbury: raw, community-led, without the corporate sheen. Co-founder, Tim Rees says, "Unearthed was built on a simple idea — that the more we understand about ourselves, the more we understand each other. It's how you break down the illusion of separation. Everything we do, the music, the ceremony, the conversations that happen at 2 am in a field... It's all about developing this expansion. Fourteen years on, we've got Mercury Prize winners standing next to kids from Pembroke on the same stage, with a crowd who've driven a long way to be here."
Weekend tickets from £80, https://www.unearthedfestival.co.uk