Basingstoke Music and Arts Festival

Reminiscing fondly on all the talent showcased in our Gala Concert!

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Photos from our Gala Concert to close out the 2024 festival.
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At BMAF we aim to provide a nurturing environment for a fun and positive performance experience. We have trophies, but going out there and just ‘doing your thing’ is the real goal 🎭🎶✍️

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Just a snippet of photos taken from our festival across March!

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The 2024 Basingstoke Music and Arts Festival Committee would like to say a huge thank you to all of our entrants, parents, teachers, supporters, volunteers and sponsors. You’ve all been wonderful and we hope to see you next year!

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What a spectacular final weekend we have had! Across Woodwind, Brass, Creative Writing, and Singing so much talent has been showcased.

Thank you to our adjudicators Paul Harris, Tessa and Ellen Lock, Angela Hurley, and Sarah Jefferies for all their feedback across the weekend.

The finale to our festival is at 2:30pm on Sunday in Queen Mary's Hall where we will have a selection of performers and awards to present!

We’re not all just music and drama, we also have a Creative Writing section! Our awards ceremony for those who have entered is tomorrow at 2:30pm ✍️

Here’s our musical sections for this weekend! Be sure to plan out your days, as it’s a busy one.

Good luck, we can’t wait to see you perform 🎶🎤🎺🪈

Thank you to everyone who attended our busy second weekend! We hope you all had a blast.

Massive thanks to our adjudicators Caroline Tyler and Emily Dickens for their wonderful feedback. And to our Secton Secretaries Steve and Hannah for organising and making the weekend happen!

Onto next weekend for our Woodwind and Recorder, Brass, Singing, and Creative Writing ✍️ 🎶

Are you coming along to our Piano performances tomorrow? Here’s the timetable so you can plan your day!

Hope to see lots of you there to perform, and support our borough’s talented musicians.

Weekend 2 is upon us! We’re starting off today with our Band, Choir, Ensemble and Orchestra section.

We start at 11 so hope to see you there, good luck to all our performers 😁

We have a new grant available this year for our high scorers, this new annual financial award of up to £500 will be available by application to solo entrants of BMAF who live within a 20 mile radius of the centre of Basingstoke.

If you scored 87 or over this past weekend and would benefit from this grant, please apply though the awards page on our website, listed below.

Our selection committee look forward to reading through all your applications and hearing how you wish to further your musical endeavours!

Good luck!

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What a wonderful start to our 2024 festival! Thank you to everyone who performed, supported and volunteered.

Special thanks to our section secretaries Hannah, Clair, and Afton, and our adjudicators Anne Newson and Lesley Shrigley-Jones who worked tirelessly across the weekend.

Roll on Weekend 2 with the Band, Choir & Ensembles section taking place on Saturday and Piano Section on Sunday.

See you there!

BMAF 2024 is under way! 🎭🎶

Here's your timetables for this weekend! What classes will we be seeing you in?

Not performing but want to watch? Tickets are £7 for a full day, £4 for a Half day, and free for children under 16 😊

Here’s your dates for this year! We start off tomorrow with Speech and Drama in the Main hall.

Can’t wait to see you all perform!

All performance times have now been sent via email directly from 'Run my Festival' please check your junkmail folder and if it's not located there please then contact your section secretary.
We look forward to seeing you all in March!

Please remember that any repertoire / performance changes and updates must be with section secretaries by midnight.
Any changes after this date will only be accommodated at the secretaries discretion and will not be in the printed programme.
Thank you!

Polite Reminder!

If you have any outstanding payments please make sure they are fulfilled by thursday latest.

If you have not completed your payments by this date your entries will unfortunately have to be withdrawn from the festival this year.

If you have any questions about payments, please contact the relevant section secretary who will be able to assist you.