The Watford Festival

The Watford Festival is an annual music competition open to all ages and abilities. Classes are for choral, vocal, piano, strings, carnatic, wind and brass.

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We hope the participants, parents and well wishers enjoyed the Speech and Drama Festival which finished last weekend with the Finale.
We got some great feedback from the adjudicators

#watfordfestival #drama #speechanddrama

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One more week for the start of #WatfordFestival Speech and Drama @PumpHouseCentre. And preparations are underway!
Looking forward to seeing all the performances live!
#Watford #music #drama

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Last few days before entries close for the #watfordfestival. An ideal opportunity to showcase young talent in the arts!
#Watford #music #drama @PumpHouseCentre @WatersmeetVenue

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It's back!

The #WatfordFestival of #Music, #Speech and #Drama is back with an in-person Festival in 2022!

An ideal opportunity for young people of all ages to showcase their talents in front of an adjudicator and audience!

Get your entries in now!

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Well done all our competitors - and their parents and teachers - who are turning up despite the snow, and putting in amazing performances.

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Can't believe https://t.co/Yfu0vtTAQh is more than half-way through: we've had some amazing performances - the time flies each session when watching them!

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Elliot won our EW3 class with a beautiful rendition of Gymnopedie 1 by Satie and the traditional Mexican Hat Dance!

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Super smiles from our fab brass players this afternoon in class EM3 #music #brass #festival

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Here’s Joe winning our EW2 class with Faure’s Sicilienne on the flute. Congratulations! #flute #festival #faure #WINNER🥇🥇🥇🥇

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Two more delighted winners on the flute this afternoon #music #festival #watford #flute 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

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Our brass posers! Fantastic brass performances to start our afternoon at St Margarets School in Bushey, Herts...

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We are delighted to have the children at Goodwyns school performing in our Recorder classes this morning. #school #music #recorder #performance #festival

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First winners of day 2 Strings! First place 🥇 was a very excited 🏆Isis🏆, followed by 🥈 Oliver in second place. Nathaniel did brilliantly in🥉third in such a high standard class.
Well done to everyone who took part.

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Our winner from the D4 Violin Intermediate class yesterday, Eliza! A truly wonderful musical performance and one of our best dressed candidates of the day! 🥇🥇🥇#Music #violin #WINNER

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Day 2 Strings is all about the cello! We can’t wait to see what the day has in store. 🎻🎻🎻🎼🎼🎼🏅🏅

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What a great pair! And such an inspiring performance #duo #music #performance #smiles #hardwork #watfordfestival

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Something tells me their smiles will be around for a while after winning their classical strings classes today! #music #musicfestival #watford #watfordfestival #winner #prize #competition

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Some more of today’s wonderful winners and runners up... #music #winner #watford #musicfestival #strings

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Who doesn’t love a great electric guitar performance? #guitar #electricguitar #watfordfestival

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Guitar masterclass with our guitar adjudicator Stuart! Congratulations to our winner Aarav! #Winners #guitar #Watford #festival #music #first #cup #Masterclass