The Highbridge Festival of the Arts

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Over 2000 pairs of feet took to the stage during this year’s 77th Festival.  Audiences were delighted by the varied performances, from poetry recitals by tiny tots to energetic dances performed by enthusiastic adults, not to mention instrumental and vocal musical performances and debut appearances of ocarinas and djembe drums.

We would like to thank our adjudicators, Janine Diamond, Maxine Percy and Donal McCrisken for embracing the friendly ethos of our Festival and providing positive, encouraging and insightful feedback to the entrants. We are very grateful to the staff of The Princess Theatre, Burnham-on-Sea, for their support and to the PCC of St John’s Church, Highbridge for allowing us to use the Church for the Music Section. The Festival wouldn’t run without the enthusiasm and hard work of our Committee and volunteer stewards – thank you for giving up so much of your time.

And, of course, thank you to all our entrants – we hope that you enjoyed your time with us as much as we enjoyed seeing and hearing you perform, and to see you again in 2026.  Plans are already well in hand!

Our 78th Festival next year should run from Monday 9 March until Saturday 21 March 2026

We aim to publish the Syllabuses on the website towards the end of September with entries opening in the first few weeks of October.

Thank you ………….

We are very grateful to Hinkley Point C Community Fund for their grant towards our venue costs for our 2024 Festival, which allowed us to keep entry fees and admission costs as low as they were and will help us to continue to host our ‘friendly’ festival in 2025. We would  also like to thank The Rotary Club of Burnham-on-Sea for their generous donation, The Arts Society Sedgemoor (TASS) for their renewed sponsorship for our 2025 Festival  and The Friends of Highbridge Festival  for their contributions, which help us support schools with their travel costs. 

Thank you to Sopha of Highbridge for moving our festival piano, to Holywell Nursing Home in Brent Knoll for fostering the piano until we next need it and to Burnham Portable Toilet Hire, Quicksign and  ASDA, Highbridge for their support of our 77th Festival.

Dates for 2026 are:

Monday 9 March & Tuesday 10 March 2025

For reference the 2025 Syllabus is still available to view

via the link on the Speech & Drama page