Welcome to Sŵn Festival

Cardiff’s multi venue music festival. Four days to discover new music, explore the city, bounce between venues and join the Sŵn family.

Sŵn, founded by Radio 1 DJ Huw Stephens and John Rostron in 2007, was the first multivenue music festival in the UK outside of London, inspired by trips to SXSW in Austin, Texas and Iceland Airwaves in Reykjavik.

Over the last ten years the likes of The Vaccines, Alt-J, Disclosure, Wolf Alice, Ghostpoet, Cate Le Bon, Ben Howard and The Staves have passed through the festival doors and on to big success.

With Cardiff’s legendary venue and promoter, Clwb Ifor Bach now at the helm, the festival will continue to bring the best in emerging and established acts from around the world to a variety of venues in the Welsh capital.

“The venues of Cardiff come alive in unison over the weekend of Sŵn and we’ve always been proud to be involved.” – Guto, Clwb Ifor Bach

“Sŵn beautifully coaxes out the love Cardiffians have for their bands and venues. The nooks and crannies of places you might not usually expect come alive and it’s a wonderfully communal thing to feel over one weekend with friends old and new.” – Lloyd, Gwdihw

“The festival is a brilliant platform for music creators and has a fantastic track record of programming and showcasing talented emerging and breaking artists from across the UK.” – Joe Frankland, Senior Grants & Programmes Manager at PRS Foundation

We can’t wait. See you at the front.