This site was last updated on 23 January 2010

About Wymondham Music Festival

Music for everyone . . .

Our annual music festival, founded in 1996, takes place in the lively market town of Wymondham, Norfolk, famous for its glorious Benedictine abbey church, distinctive Market Cross and many other visitor attractions.

Throughout the summer . . .

There is a huge range of music on offer - evening concerts, daytime recitals, gigs, workshops, the Midsummer Jazz Picnic down by the river Tiffey, Town Busking Day and lots of other live music in the Market Place and at venues around the town.

Supporting local musicians . . .

Most of our artists live and work in Norfolk. We provide top quality performances from professional musicians, show-case local talent and promote our many excellent music societies.

2010 is upon us!

It’s the start of another year, and with it comes the prospect of another Wymondham Music Festival. Despite the recession, the 2009 Festival was another great success. We (the organising committee, that is) were expecting money to be hard to come by, audiences to stay away and the general downturn to put the dampers on our activities.

Not a bit of it! It was another bumper festival, with record crowds at the jazz picnic, a sell out concert (the incomparable Jaqui Dankworth), and a number of new events that obviously appealed to our audiences.

Now we’re deep into the planning stages for the 2010 festival. Just to whet your appetite, here are a few dates for your diary:

Annual Public Meeting - Monday 8 February. (see below for details)

Programme launch - Saturday 1 May

Festival Fortnight - Saturday 26 June to Sunday 11 July

Midsummer Jazz Picnic - Monday 28 June

Live ‘n’ Gigging - Saturday 26 June

We’ll be expanding this website over the next few weeks as plans unfold and we add detail to the programme. We’re also developing a new look to the site, just to remind you we’re into a new decade. Nothing radical, mind you, just a freshening up. Keep your eyes on this space.

The 2010 Annual Public Meeting

Wymondham Music Festival is a registered charity; this gives us a set of duties and responsibilities as laid down by the Charity Commission. On top of this, a portion of our funding comes from local authorities, as they consider that we enhance the life and well-being of our town. It’s therefore important that we are open and accessible in all we do. 

As part of this process, we hold an Annual Public Meeting at the start of every year. It is our opportunity to present a summary of the previous years activities and explain an outline of our plans for the forthcoming Festival. It’s your opportunity to come along and find out more about us, what we do and how we do it.

 The meeting is open to all, and entry is free. There will be live music at the start, while we serve free tea and coffee and homemade cake (made by our catering manager Margaret Hickman Smith, who we reckon is the best cakemaker in Norfolk!). It’s also an opportunity to meet the organisers and ask questions, put forward ideas and generally find out more about the Festival.

Come along to the Fairland Church Centre on Monday 8th February 2010. The doors open at 19:15, with the formal part of the meeting starting at 19:45. There’ll also be an opportunity at the end for more informal chatting (and possibly more cake to eat!).

We look forward to meeting you there - come and see what 2010 has in store.

Johnny the Juggler performing at last year’s Busking Day. It may not be music, but it was very entertaining!

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