Woodley Festival goes online

THEWoodley Festival of Music and Arts takes place in March year and provides awarm and friendly environment inwhich performers may gain valuable experience and feedback from professional adjudicators.

Many local schools encourage their pupils to enter thewide variety of speech and drama, vocal, instrumental and piano classes and the well-supported choir classes are always particularly popularwith the audience.

Open classes for amateur adult performers are alsowell attended.

Over the past 50 years the Festival has provided a platform for young people to develop their talents in a supportive and encouraging environment. There are typicallymore than 1,000 performances over three or fourweekends and parents and friends of entrants aswell as the general public arewarmly invited to attend to provide support and to be entertained.

Sadly this year due to the ongoing pandemic the Festival is unable to run in its full format.

Although this is very disappointing for everyone involved, the committee is determined to focus onwhat can be achieved during this difficult time rather thanwhat is lost.

The organisers are delighted to announce that a limited number of instrumental solo and ensemble classeswill be run online via recorded submission.

All entrieswill be professionally adjudicated, with both verbal andwritten feedback provided aswell as class placings and certificates.

Woodley Festivalwill return in its full format in March 2022 and hopes to attract many newand returning entrants and spectators.

Further details are available at www.woodleyfestival.org.uk entries are open nowuntil Friday, February 19 and the deadline for recorded submissions is

Friday, April 2.