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ABOUT THE CROYDON MUSIC FESTIVAL
A competitive festival for the Amateur Performing Arts)
The Croydon Music Festival (including all kinds of music, dance and
speech and drama) is a large annual amateur performing arts festival
and is a registered charity. The Festival is for the whole community
and participants come from all over Croydon and the south east as
well as much further afield, such as Birmingham, Liverpool, Ireland,
and even France and China! The Festival is now a very high profile
and important event in Croydon’s calendar. Entries have steadily
risen each year and the estimated number of those taking part is in
excess of 3500 children and adults.
The aim of the Festival is to help raise standards and the quality
of the amateur arts; to motivate, encourage and educate performers;
and to give the opportunity, enjoyment and experience of performing
before an audience. Experienced, professional adjudicators give
constructive appraisal to all participants in written and verbal
comments. All participants go away with a certificate for each
performance and there are awards and trophies to be won. Anyone who
is involved with the amateur performing arts can take part whatever
their age or ability. In each Festival there are very young
performers playing small instruments, dancers under the age of 5,
many stunning performances from the more advanced and older
performers and some delightful choral music. There is also wonderful
group music making such as handbells, steel bands and percussion
workshops with young children playing the samba.
Link to British Federation
Since 1990, the Festival has developed opportunities for all
cultures to participate. There are large Asian music sections and a
class for music from other cultures, national dance and Asian dance.
Speech and Drama was added to the Syllabus in 1998 and in 1999 Dance
was reintroduced to the syllabus after an interval of some years.
The Dance events take place at the Ashcroft Theatre (Fairfield,
Croydon) in the May/June half-term week. The Ashcroft is an ideal
venue for dance with a large stage and proscenium arch, excellent
backstage and front of house facilities. Other events take place at
Whitgift School and the Fairfield Concert Hall, the Parish Church
and the BRIT School.
The Festival is affliated the British and International Federation
of Festivals for Music, Dance and Speech.
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