Back for its second year in 2016, We Are Family Festival is held in Hartlepool, at Jacksons Landing and it has been confirmed for 10th September. The festival is a celebration of local culture, food, music and more.

The festival is curated and produced by The Jar Family and it is funded by the local brewery, Camerons as well as the Jar Family’s independent record label, Jar Records. The line-up has almost entirely been announced for the festival and it includes: Plaza, Avalanche Party, Slug, Lilliput, Mouses, Samantha Durnan, Social Room, James Leonard Hewitson band, Parastatic, Serinette, Hyde & Beast, Seafret, Kingsley Chapman and The Murder. The headline acts will be The Jar Family themselves as well as Little Comets and Cattle and Cane.