Music Venue Trust has announced a major new partnership with The National Lottery to launch Everywhere At Once, billed as the UK’s biggest “festival on your doorstep.” Running from 26-28 June 2026, the event will transform the Glastonbury weekend into a nationwide celebration of grassroots live music in hundreds of local venues.
Instead of fields and campfires, Everywhere At Once will take place inside the UK’s grassroots music venues, from Inverness to Penzance. Across three days, these spaces will host hundreds of shows featuring major artists, established touring acts and emerging local talent in the intimate rooms that have shaped generations of British musicians. Organisers describe it as “not a festival in a field” but a chance to experience a curated programme of live music in the rooms that sit at the heart of their neighbourhoods.
The festival marks the latest step in a long-standing relationship between the Music Venue Trust and The National Lottery, which has previously supported initiatives such as Revive Live and United By Music to underwrite touring costs and aid the post-pandemic recovery of small venues. For Everywhere At Once, National Lottery funding will again go straight into venues and promoters, with the aim of pairing increased visibility for the circuit with what organisers call “meaningful, practical support.”
“This is a hugely significant moment for the grassroots music sector,” said Music Venue Trust CEO Mark Davyd in the launch announcement. He highlighted the scale of bringing hundreds of venues together over a single weekend as evidence of the network that underpins live music across the country. Davyd also framed the project as both a celebration and a mechanism to “put real investment directly into venues while amplifying their collective voice.”
Everywhere At Once will also have a built-in charitable dimension. Audiences will be asked at point of purchase if they want to donate to a group of music-related charities, including War Child, Nordoff and Robbins, Help Musicians UK and Teenage Cancer Trust. George Fleming of campaign group Save Our Scene, a delivery partner on the project alongside the Association of Independent Promoters, said the weekend shows that “the grassroots never stands still”, even during typically quieter summer periods.
The National Lottery, which describes itself as the UK’s biggest supporter of the arts, presents Everywhere At Once as a statement about where live music lives in 2026. The aim is to spotlight the role of small venues in nurturing new talent and sustaining local scenes, while giving fans a reason to stay close to home rather than chase a distant field.
Full line-ups and ticket details for Everywhere At Once are still to come, but Music Venue Trust is positioning the weekend as a genuine national moment. The organisation promises more stages and more artists than any single greenfield festival this summer, all accessed via local venues where “the artists play, the venues host, the nation listens”.
