Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance

Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music and Dance twitter feed. New website now live.

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

Thank you all so much for a wonderful weekend filled with very special Music. Our thanks to all those who took part, our volunteers, accompanists and adjudicators. And thanks to our dedicated Music Secretary who worked so hard to deliver her vision

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

The music timetable is now live on the website: https://t.co/F6tXkHoxBq

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

Reminder from our busy Speech and Music Secretary - closing date for Speech and Music is 13 Jan. All info on the website - entry forms, syllabuses, everything you need.
https://t.co/kGD1XlXge5

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We're thinking of an elephant soothing class for Music. I'm sure @WestholmeSchool could cope with a bit of elephant poo. Blue Peter did.

https://t.co/EpdvtzZbCC

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

Version 2 of the Speech is up on the website and includes the missing Prose section plus the Prayer Book Society heats.

Apologies for all that - it was a formatting issue which hid the text that then escaped all the proof readers. All visible now.

https://t.co/TcsQRFRAZz

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

In Lancs? Young string player? This is for you: https://t.co/Gu5JSHJ9P3

And it's free. A great way to gain experience of playing with others.

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

And we are live for the 2024 Festival. Syllabuses and entry forms online at https://t.co/Cieop03W4e

Thanks to @reddy_suganya we do have a Speech section running this year - huge thanks to her for being both Speech and Music Secretaries this year.

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

We're back at the amazing Croston Theatre @WestholmeSchool for as many classes as we can fit in there. Other amazing rooms are available as well.

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

And we are live for the 2024 Festival. Syllabuses and entry forms online at https://t.co/Cieop03W4e

Thanks to @reddy_suganya we do have a Speech section running this year - huge thanks to her for being both Speech and Music Secretaries this year.

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

We have dates for the 2024 Festival, and the syllabuses will be online as soon as they have been signed off and made pretty enough for public consumption.

https://t.co/Cieop03W4e

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Here’s Lucy from Danceworks with the Christian Watkinson Incentive Trophy. We were unable to present this at the time of the Festival but it’s with her now. Well done, Lucy!

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Just about come down from the Festival. The trophy winner pics are all on our facebook page - dancing pics from the finals to follow.

Thank you to all involved - dancers, supporters, teachers, parents, our hard-working committee and volunteers, and our adjudicator, Jacqui Ison

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

It's Friday, and set up day for the final weekend of our 2023 Festival. See you @WestholmeSchool in the glorious Croston Theatre (have we mentioned how fantastic the space is?) for three days of dance including Miss Dance and Dancemaster heats and the finals

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

What a first weekend of dance! Such a lovely atmosphere. Our thanks to everone who came and supported it, and also to our incredible team of volunteers who so generously give so the Festival can take place. Hopefully everyone will be fully recovered for next weekend

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Here's this morning's view from the stage at the Croston Theatre @WestholmeSchool . Dancing just starting on day two of the Dance. Yesterday was an absolute cracker. I'm sure today will be just as good. #inspired

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Back at the lovely Croston Theatre @WestholmeSchool setting up for the first Dance weekend. What a setting. We're #inspired, hopefully the dancers are too

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Final planning meeting for the Dance part of the Festival last night - all looking good for weekend.
More exciting is our news that we are going to be offering six bursaries of £150 to dancers from the Finals - Jun, Int and Sen in both Classical and Cabaret.

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@EVCMusicUK @MusicroomOnline @MariaKesiak @paulbirchal_art How lovely to hear

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@JaneWilkinson Oh, we love it when that happens. Happened with our dance adjudicator last year, too.

[Blackburn Festival of Speech, Music & Dance @BlackburnFest]

Hope you all had a wonderful time at the first weekend of the 2023 Festival - the team are still buzzing about the event. Tiring but so worthwhile. Congratulations to all who took part - hopefully the adjudicators have given you something to think about