In 1993, Steve Middlesbrough was asked to devise, develop & present the World's 1st Video Beach Party All-nighter, BeachBash 93, on Central Beach, Sentosa Island, Singapore City in South East Asia on Christmas Eve and into Christmas Day 1993.
This terrific event, was to plant the seed for similar festival events in the UK.
Kalimba Events have been staged in the Morecambe Bay area since 1995.
Our first rock event, Nightmare Before Halloween, was staged annually at the Morecambe Dome and featured a top Oasis tribute band as well as several local rock & indie acts.
Next came the famous Summerbreeze festival series which ran from 1996 to 1999 and attracted over 130,000 people in total to these free festivals.
Top quality international artists included performances from such stars as Courtney Pine, Edwin Starr, Spandau Ballet's Tony Hadley, Leo Sayer, Odyssey, 911, Alison Limerick, Gwen Dickey of Rose Royce, Clock, Alexander O'Neal, Geno Washington, Cleopatra, Pasadenas & the Real Thing supported by dozens of local artists who all thoroughly enjoyed the unique experience of working with these famous chart names
Country Kickback 2000 attracted 9,000 people over the 4 day Spring Bank Holiday period to see over a dozen top UK country acts plus top tributes to the Eagles & Shania Twain.
Since then many other differing events for music fans have emerged from Kalimba. In 2001 ClubZero was successfully started for under 16's to let off steam to their favourite pop tracks.
Also in 2001 Solar, the monthly up front dance night, began to play to packed venues with DJs from all over the country.
Club Tropicana, The Disco Ball, Fab, Sold On Soul & We Luv all soon followed for fans of 80s, disco, 60s, soul & 70s as did Motown Magic for fans of the legendary Detroit label.
In 2002 the Z fest featured S Club 7 & Steps tribute bands in front of an audience of hundreds of excited young teenage ClubZero fans.
Soul AM began in 2004 for Northern Soul & Motown fans and featured top Wigan Casino DJs in it's monthly line-up. Planet Disco was held in early 2005 at Lancaster's Liquid nightclub and helped raise over £500 for the South-East Asian Tsunami appeal.
Kalimba was proud to be awarded the MBHC Outstanding Entertainment Award this year.
Motown Magic, Country Kickback, Parklife, BluesWater, Morecambe Jazz, Tutti Frutti & Lancaster Soul are now regular annual Americana Series events
Fans of 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s & 90s - Juke Box Jive, Fab, We Luv Seventies, Club Tropicana & Sorted are our regular annual Retro Decade events
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