CARLISLE'S Blues and Rock Festival is set to return, the year after being crowned the UK's Blues Festival of the Year.

This year's event will run from October 6 - 8 at Carlisle's Crown and Mitre Hotel. 

The event, which has been running since 2007, has announced a roster of international talent in the line-up including, Tombstone Dunnery, Brave Rival, Kai Strauss and the Electric Blue All Stars, Layla Zoe, Dom Martin, Verity Bromham Band and Hamilton Loomis to name a small few. 

Carlisle's Blues Rock Festival was previously cream of the crop at the 2022 UKBlues Awards event. 

Full weekend and individual day tickets are on sale now. 

It's really gone full circle for the festival considering in 2019 it looked as if the show would not go on. 

"2019 was going to be the last year of the festival just because it got too expensive to run the event at the scale it was at.

"But a couple of businessmen who had been at the festival approached me to say they didn't want it to end and what could they do to help keep it going. 

"Individually they came up with sponsorships which have kept it going at the same scale," organiser Nick Westgarth previously said. 

Tickets are available via www.carlislebluesfestival.com/tickets/.