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The Hull Freedom Festival has been awarded funding from the Arts Council England (ACE), despite the fact that the body had its budget cut by £100 million following the Spending Review.

The music and performance arts festival has received £100,000 from the ACE, which will enable it to continue adding more than £5 million to Hull’s economy.

Last year’s Freedom festival featured performances from The Wanted, McFly and Alesha Dixon, as well as an aerial acrobatics performance from Transe Express, the Monster Madness parade and an astounding fireworks display.

Details for the 2011 festival have not yet been revealed, but an announcement is expected soon.

The line-up for the Latitude 2011 festival has been announced, with Suede, Paulo Nutini and The National confirmed as headline acts so far.

The latest announcement sees Eels, Bombay Bicycle Club and Foals joining the headliners at the festival, which is held at Henham Park Estate in Suffolk from Thursday 14th July to Sunday 17th July 2011.

Other acts set to perform are Bellowhead, British Sea Power, Deerhunter, Bright Eyes, KT Tunstall, Hurts, I Am Kloot, Paloma Faith, The Vaccines, My Morning Jacket, Rumer and Villagers.

There are plenty more acts still to be announced for Latitude 2011 though, so watch this space!

A reggae festival aiming to mark the 30th anniversary of Bob Marley’s death will be held at Wembley Arena this coming July.

The One Love Peace Festival is to be named after the iconic Bob Marley gig in Jamaica in 1978 when the I Shot the Sheriff singer encouraged rival political leaders to shake hands on stage. It will have a message of peace – “Throw away your guns, throw away your knives” – and all the proceeds from the landmark event will go to charity.

In honour of their hero, who died of cancer aged just 36, and his great contribution to music, artists such as Busta Ryhmes, Shaggy, Aswad, Sean Paul and John Holt will perform at the peace festival. Marley’s son Ky-mani will also perform some of his father’s best-loved songs.

The Seattle-based band Fleet Foxes have been confirmed as a headline act for the Green Man festival 2011, along with Texas four-piece Explosions in the Sky.

The organisers of the Green Man festival, traditionally held in the Brecon Beacons every year, have started to tease festival-goers and folk fans with a few line-up announcements in the last couple of weeks. Of all the twenty or so bands and artists confirmed for the August 2011 festival, notable acts include:

• Bellowhead
• The Travelling Band
• Villagers
• Holy F*ck
• The Burns Unit
• Polar Bear
• Robyn Hitchcock
• The Low Anthem
• Mancub Babywoman
• The Ramshackle Union Band