Katrina Larkin To Be Honoured With The Lifetime Achievement Award

The award, in association with trade magazine Music Week and the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy charity is presented to promoters who have been at the forefront of the UK’s burgeoning festival industry and has previously been given to the likes of Michael Eavis (Glastonbury) and John Giddings (Isle of Wight). Katrina will be honoured in front of
her peers in the festival industry at the UK Festival Awards gala ceremony this Thursday November 19 2009. The awards take place at IndigO2, part of the O2 complex in London’s East End.

Starting life in 1994 as a series of ambient parties at the Union Chapel venue in Islington, London The Big Chill developed into an outdoor festival in 1995 with an event in the Black Mountains of Wales. Big Chill’s laid back ethos and compact festival site is widely regarded
as the creation of the boutique festival template, a template that has gone on to inspire hundreds of niche and boutique festivals across the UK.

Katrina herself, as an almost lone female figure in the heavily male-dominated live music industry of the ’90s has inspired a generation of female promoters to make their mark in the festival scene.

For more information and to purchase tickets go to: www.festivalawards.com

For further information about the UK Festival Conference & Awards 2009 or to speak to a member of the team please contact:
Dan Walsh @ Incubator
T: +44 20 78 02 01 60
M: +44 77 75 7 03 79
E: dan.walsh@incubator-uk.com