HOWL is a nine-voice all-female vocal group from diverse musical backgrounds covering folk, opera and musical theatre. Brought together through a love of complex, lush and haunting vocal music, they perform original compositions and new arrangements of folk songs. The rich programme for this performance will include traditional folk songs from the British Isles,
Award-winning singer-songwriter Boo Hewerdine and Yvonne Lyon’s new album is inspired by a noticeboard in Culzean Castle’s second-hand bookshop, full with items that have dropped out of books. Letters, photographs, old receipts, fragments of people’s lives have been lovingly collated and pinned up amongst the shelves. Boo (who wrote Eddi Reader’s first solo hit,
With a reputation as one of the UK’s leading concert bands – and a Platinum Award from the 2023 National Concert Band Festival – the Lichfield Concert Band have toured the globe. Following sell-out concerts last year at Lichfield Garrick and Lichfield Cathedral, the 50-piece Band make their Festival debut with a concert mixing
Extra seats released Limited overflow seating is now available in the Cathedral Quire for £18. This seating will not have a view of the stage, but a video relay will be provided on screens. Our sensational, superstar Festival Patron, Tony Hadley, is back for summer 2025! As front-man of 80s New Romantic band Spandau
Joshua Burnell makes retro pop-rock music with evident folk roots. Growing a following through appearances at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention, FolkEast and Manchester Folk Festival - to name a few - his latest album, Glass Knight was described by the Financial Times as “like a lost out-take from Spiders-From-Mars-era Bowie”. He and his band
Join us for a fun-filled family event featuring Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, with live brass band accompaniment.
Gavin Bryers, with Jessica Walker, brings a new programme which includes his hypnotic arrangements of iconic numbers by Waits, Leonard Cohen, Kurt Weill and Neil Young.
After two extraordinary competitions in 2022 and 2024, the search is on for the next Midlands Choir of the Year winners!
MOJO award winner and two-time Brit-nominee Rumer visits the Festival to celebrate the 15th anniversary of her smash-hit album Seasons Of My Soul.
Today's band welcomes musicians from across the ‘Rustys’ network, to perform family film favourites from stage and screen.
