Holly Johnson to play Sunshine Festival, Worcestershire

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Frankie Goes To Hollywood on stage at the National Lottery's Big Eurovision Welcome concert in Liverpool on 7 May 2023Image source, Getty Images
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Holly Johnson performed with Frankie Goes To Hollywood for the first time in 36 years in May

Holly Johnson has been announced as one of the headline acts for next year's Sunshine Music Festival in Worcestershire.

The Frankie Goes to Hollywood frontman will perform in Upton-upon-Severn when the event returns between 22 and 25 August.

Other acts on the bill include David Essex, Jason Donovan and The Levellers.

Organiser Steve Cass said he was "buzzing" and the next headline act would be announced on New Year's Eve.

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Sunshine Music Festival will take place in Upton-upon-Severn between 22 and 25 August 2024

"We're absolutely over the moon," he told BBC Hereford and Worcester.

"It's our 15th anniversary... There's a lot of people that have been with us for 15 years since Sunshine started."

Sunshine Festival, held at Fish Meadow, hosts five stages alongside family entertainment and a circus.

Previous performers at the camping event have included Ronan Keating, Heather Small and rock band Status Quo.

But Mr Cass said finding new acts for the line-up each year had been getting harder.

Tickets for the event, held over the August bank holiday weekend, are available online.

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