Local events
Sounds that travel around the world
Wrexham hosts long well established festivals and events that command your attention.
With both local talent and performers from across the globe - make sure you combine your visit to Wrexham with one of our famous festivals.
You won't be disappointed.
Upcoming events
29th
November
2025
Brewed
Awakening
Beer Festival
Get ready to elevate your taste buds at the ultimate beer festival! This year, we're bringing you an unforgettable experience. Commences 12pm - 10pm, Doors open 11:50am. Location Tŷ Pawb, Market Street Wrexham LL13 8BB
Recent events
22nd/24th August
WREXFEST
Wrexham’s Brightest, Home-Grown Music Festival returned August Bank Holiday Weekend 2025, and it was another step up in quality and stage performances. Find out more about this exciting weekend in our dedicated piece below.
15th/16th
August
WREXHAM PAINT JAM IV
Over 25 nationwide street artists return to Eagle's Meadow and set up residence for the weekend, brightening up the darkest walls of the town centre with some eye catching and mind blowing artwork.
A world of music is on offer in Wrexham
FOCUS
Wales
We’ve known the team behind FOCUS Wales for a good many years now and have long supported their much loved festival. Called FOCUS Wales it takes place every May, and grows year upon year and is showing no sign of slowing down. Like a good wine, the performances continues to improve over time, and the annual event is now maturing into a must go to destination for up and coming bands from all over the world.
FOCUS Wales was created to highlight the vibrant new music scene within the Welsh music industry. At its core, the organisation delivers an international, multi-venue festival held annually in Wrexham, shining a spotlight on emerging Welsh talent and showcasing some of the world’s most exciting new acts. FOCUS Wales 2026 will celebrate the festival’s 16th year, welcoming over 25,000 attendees to Wrexham, following a record-breaking 2025 event.
The festival features 350+ performances across 20+ stages, alongside interactive industry sessions, arts events, and film screenings. In addition to the main festival, FOCUS Wales also organises several international events throughout the year under the #WelshMusicAbroad initiative.
In between the annual festival in Wrexham, the team are usually heading off to festivals themselves all over world, carrying their famous FOCUS Wales flags and banners, and accompanied by local bands. In doing they are exporting the very best of Welsh talent and music around the globe. And in turn the team are doing their best to recruit bands and their hosts to reciprocate in kind and get them to experience a welcome to Wrexham for themselves. It’s a very effective formula, and something that Neal as one of the founders and Sarah as one of the directors gave us an insight into how it works perfectly, year upon year.
FOCUS Wales is unlike other festivals as it provides a professional conference format during the day, allowing performers, sponsors and industry types valuable networking opportunities over lunches. Then things loosen up a bit for their popular early evening mixers and usually from around 7pm it’s a high-octane, high-paced, well-choregraphed evening of exactly timed gigs all taking place within a few minutes’ walk of each other across the heart of Wrexham.
With a good wind, and plenty of sleep each night and perhaps not too much Wrexham Lager, you can average 8 to 10 gigs per day or as many as 30 over the whole weekend. That means tickets for the whole weekend represent superb value for money in an ongoing cost of living crisis and where ticket prices for famous bands nowadays can easily fetch hundreds of pounds.
It also means that with 350+ gigs taking place, even the most hardy are barely able to scratch the surface of just how much content and music is available over the weekend. Pound for pound, it’s the UK champion of festivals.
In recent years the FOCUS Wales Film festival has launched and runs simultaneously alongside the music festival, which is led by fellow member of the FOCUS Wales team, Rob Corcoran, also based here in the Foundry. Rob’s content invites film makers from all over the world to bring creative film and animation pieces for a wide range of audiences. This means with film, music and other creative media you really can call it a cultural melting pot for the whole weekend, the leading fringe for Wales if you like.
We are blessed that Wrexham isn’t a capital city, as the intimacy of hosting such an important event transforms the very nature of the whole town for the weekend – something that it wouldn’t be able to do if it were hosted in a major city.
The future of the festival looks assured with more names and bands than ever wishing to play and the only challenge is Wrexham can’t host them all every year.
With some past major headliners, next years’ acts will surely set the bar even higher again for Wrexham. We look forward to sharing news on confirmed acts as soon as they are announced and covering the festival in person throughout the whole weekend for Visit Wrexham.
Bands can still apply to play via their site link here Apply to Play, and for those who aren’t brave enough to perform they can still apply to volunteer and help the team deliver another magical weekend for everyone here in Wrexham.
Talented Local Author brings Wrexham’s History Back to Life
2026 will
celebrate
The Year
of Wonder
We were recommended to reach out and meet up with Dave McCall, a well-respected and published local author. Dave has lived in Wrexham for over 40 years and goes under the pen name David Ebsworth and has published a series of dramatic historical crime thrillers, available both online and in store in Wrexham’s Waterstones located on Regent Street.
After a successful career Dave took up writing for the first time at retirement. A keen local walker and swimmer, he has never really slowed down since and his writing career has been equally successful and has just completed his 15th novel.
What became clear upon meeting is what really drives Dave. It’s his passion and love of the history and all the famous stories and people from our world famous town. Whilst Wrexham is blessed with many different festivals throughout the year – there are a staggering 32 in 2025 alone – one of his favourites is the annual Wrexham Carnival of Words in April, a literary festival with a difference, now in its 11th year, and one he helps to organise.
This year, in November, the Carnival team brings us yet another one, the Clwyd Crime Fest. But next year’s calendar will be that bit more special, when they host an exciting theme throughout the whole year.
The whole town, people and institutions will in 2026 celebrate these great achievements under a year-long festival called The Year of Wonder, celebrating 150 years since a very special year here in Wrexham, 1876.
From celebrating the Welsh Football Association being founded at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel, or the famous bells in the tower at St Giles’ Church having a world class technology upgrade, or the stately gardens being opened at Ruabon Road Garden Cemetery for the first time, or celebrating the Art Treasures and Industrial Exhibition which was one of the largest art exhibitions in the UK in its day - make no doubt about it, in 1876 Wrexham appeared able to command the attention of the whole world with something noteworthy happening almost every single day of the year.
Wrexham might be well known now but it was world famous once before!
Wrexham certainly was the precious jewel of North Wales in 1876 and the Year of Wonder festival will aim to bring it all back to life.
We look forward to sharing further updates on this exciting year-long festival and news of events throughout the rest of the year.
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