Audience Prize awarded jointly to Staffordshire and Lichfield Groups A male voice choir from Birmingham has emerged victorious in the 2024 Midlands Choir of the Year competition organised by Lichfield Festival. MaleVox saw off five rivals in the Final at…
Oz Clarke is one of the world’s leading wine experts and writers, and a familiar face on TV since the 1980s with BBC TV ‘Food and Drink’ and his award-winning series ‘Oz and James Drink to Britain’ with Top Gear…
If you think Shostakovich isn’t your cup of tea, think again! The Brodsky Quartet is with us for an entire weekend of mesmerising concerts covering the entire cycle of the composer’s 15 quartets. Their performances of these works has become…
Holst 150 Music lovers around the world are preparing to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Cheltenham-born composer, Gustav Holst, whose suite The Planets is one of the best-known pieces of classical music ever written. Here at Lichfield…
To celebrate Staffordshire Day on 1 May, we’ve picked out some home-grown Staffordshire artists and events to enjoy at this year’s Lichfield Festival Lichfield’s own award-winning writer, comedian and Festival Associate Artist Katie Arnstein pictured has been described by The…
Sitar player, composer and innovator, Jasdeep Singh Degun has been described as “one of the most imaginative musicians in the land” by The Independent and “one of our greatest musicians in the country” by the legendary Nitin Sawhney (himself a…
The wait is over! The full line-up for the 2024 Lichfield Festival (4-14 July) has been announced, featuring stars of classical, folk, world, jazz, cabaret and popular music, theatre, dance and the written word. Headline acts in the Cathedral include…
Cor Bach – Midlands Choir of the Year Winners 2022 A retrospective! In 2022, Cor Bach, a small a capella group mainly heralding from North Staffordshire, took the decision to enter the inaugural ‘Midlands Choir of the Year’ competition to…
Lichfield Festival is delighted to announce its newest Patron, the author, Tudor historian, broadcaster and joint Chief Curator at Historic Royal Palaces, Tracy Borman. Damian Thantrey, Lichfield Festival Director, said: “Tracy has been a regular and much-loved visitor to both…
In 2022, Cor Bach became Lichfield Festival’s inaugural Midlands Choir of the Year winners. The choir from Newcastle-under-Lyme swept the board, beating five rivals in a concert at Lichfield Cathedral to lift the winner’s trophy and Audience Prize too. The…
There’s lots on offer for jazz fans at this year’s Lichfield Festival, from Sinatra to Sondheim, solo sax to big band and Broadway. We’ve rounded up a few highlights for you. Back in 2021, Tommy Smith OBE gave a mesmerising,…
We can’t wait to welcome Broadway royalty, Melissa Errico, to Lichfield for the first time this year. Since being famously cast as Eliza in the last Broadway revival of My Fair Lady in 1992, Melissa Errico has starred in Sunday…
