St Ives has been home to an annual September festival of arts and music since 1977. The festival incorporates both a lively nightly programme of concerts and gigs alongside day time exhibitions, art fairs, performance poetry, visual artists and crafting. The festival brings two weeks of lively artistic culture to Cornwall.

2015 sees another St Ives September Festival packed full to the brim with exciting events and artists to see. The line-up includes Miranda Sykes & Rex Preston, Kate Rusby, Acoustic Strawbs, John Lees' Barclay James Harvest, Chris Jagger and the Kronies, Martin Barre Band and The Rollin' Clones, as well as many more well-known tribute acts and locally and nationally known artists. The organisers plan to have around 300 events in total when the full line-up is announced.