Lichfield Festival of Music

14/10/2026

Thank you for featuring us, British & International Federation of Festivals! 🙏🎶

Festival season has returned, and with it comes our posts! This time, we have Lichfield Festival of Music.

For over 45 years, this festival has offered amateur musicians of all ages and levels of ability an opportunity to perform, gain valuable feedback and meet other like-minded individuals.

Each November, it attracts entrants from across the UK, including from as far afield as Oxfordshire, Lancashire and North Wales, as well as from the areas surrounding Lichfield.

04/10/2026

🎉🎶 Something special is taking shape for 2027… 🎶🎉

We’re delighted to announce that our four British & International Federation of Festivals adjudicators for the 2027 Lichfield Festival of Music are now booked! 🎓🎶

But we’re not going to tell you who they are…yet! 👀

So, can you guess?

🤔 Who do you think will be joining us for our 50th Anniversary Festival?

We’ll reveal all four in due course - but for now, we’ll just say that we’re very excited about the team we’ve put together for our golden anniversary year. ✨

And if you haven’t already…

📅 SAVE THE DATES!

🎶 Saturday 6 November 2027
🎶 Saturday 13 November 2027
🎶 Saturday 20 November 2027

Three Saturdays of music, memories, performances and celebrations as we mark 50 years of the Lichfield Festival of Music 🥳

There’s plenty more to come as our anniversary plans take shape, so keep an eye on our social media…or sign up to our mailing list via our website.

Who are your guesses? Let us know in the comments! 👇

27/09/2026

🎶 The 2026 Lichfield Festival of Music…in numbers! 🎶

Three Saturdays of music-making create a lot of numbers. So, now that the final note has been played, here’s a little look behind the scenes at our 2026 Festival…

🎉 49th Festival
🎶 189 entries
👥 250+ performers
🎼 219 pieces of music performed
📅 3 Festival days
🎶 1 Festival Concert
🎓 4 adjudicators
📜 140 certificates awarded
🥇 32 medals awarded
🏆 15 trophies awarded
🎹 2 Festival pianos - plus 1 warm-up piano
🙌 7 trustees
👋 27 stewards
🎹 12+ accompanists
💛 6 Festival sponsors
⏰ 27 hours covered at the venue by the Festival team
🧺 3 spectacular raffle hampers
📸 1 Festival selfie frame
📧 400+ emails sent
📱 159,627 Facebook views
📱 46,270 Instagram views
➕ 103 new Facebook followers
➕ 82 new Instagram followers
🌐 8,400 website views
👀 3,600 website visitors

And then there are the figures that are rather harder to quantify…

☕ Cups of tea and coffee consumed: enough to fill the sink with empty mugs several times each day.

🍪 Biscuits eaten: probably too many (although we do still have two unopened packets… 👀)

🚻 Times someone asked “Where are the toilets?”: beyond counting 😂

And perhaps the most important number of all…

❤️ 1 wonderful Festival, made possible by hundreds of people giving their time, talent, encouragement and support.

Thank you to every performer, teacher, accompanist, parent, family member, steward, volunteer, adjudicator, sponsor, supporter and audience member who helped make LFM 2026 happen.

49 years down. One very special 50th anniversary to go… 🎉🎶

27/09/2026

🎶 That’s a wrap on the 2026 Lichfield Festival of Music! 🎶

Three Saturdays.

Hundreds of performances.

Performers of all ages travelling from across the region and beyond.

And an enormous amount of music shared, enjoyed and celebrated. ❤️

As we bring the 49th year of the Festival to a close, we wanted to take a moment to say a huge and heartfelt THANK YOU to everyone who has helped make this year’s Festival possible.

🎵 To performers - without you, there simply would be no Festival. Thank you for sharing your music, taking to the stage and giving us so many wonderful performances.

👩‍🏫 To teachers - thank you for all the preparation, encouragement and support you give your students.

🎹 To accompanists - thank you for giving your time and musical expertise to support performers on the day.

❤️ To parents, families and friends - thank you for all the lifts, rehearsals, encouragement, nerves and applause that happen behind the scenes.

🎶 To our British & International Federation of Festivals adjudicators - Sarah Jefferies, Nancy Litten, Kathryn Page and Steven Roberts — thank you for your expertise, encouragement and thoughtful feedback.

🙌 To our stewards and volunteers - and especially the many new stewards who joined us this year - thank you for helping everything run so smoothly.

📸 To Kevin Terry, our Festival Photographer - thank you for capturing the Festival for us.

🏛️ To Wade Street Church - thank you for providing such a welcoming home for this year’s Festival.

🎹 To Vale Pianos and Kawai, thank you for helping us provide the pianos that our performers relied upon throughout the Festival.

And to our wonderful sponsors and supporters — Access Bookings, Chris Melloy Piano Services Ltd, EVC Music, Moseleys Solicitors, The Arts Society: Needwood-Lichfield, all 15 of our trophy sponsors, and Shakespeare in the Park, Lichfield - thank you for your generous support.

Your contributions make a real difference to what we are able to offer.

This has also been a significant year for the Festival itself.

✨ Since 2022, Festival entries have increased by 89%.
✨ For the first time in our history, we expanded to three days of Festival classes.
✨ And our performers have travelled to us from across Staffordshire and the West Midlands, as well as from Cornwall, Warwickshire, Leicestershire, Manchester and Derbyshire.

In a world where so much is increasingly experienced through a screen, we think there’s something wonderful about the continuing appetite for live performance, shared experiences and making music together. 🎶

And now we look ahead to something very special…

🎉 2027 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Lichfield Festival of Music! 🎉

We’ll be returning to our traditional November dates:

📅 Saturday 6 November 2027
📅 Saturday 13 November 2027
📅 Saturday 20 November 2027

We’re already beginning to make plans for a very special anniversary year - and we’d love you to be part of it.

For now, though, from all of us at the Lichfield Festival of Music:

Thank you! ❤️

Thank you for performing.
Thank you for supporting.
Thank you for volunteering.
Thank you for listening.
And thank you for helping us keep live music-making at the heart of our community.

See you in 2027! 🎶🎉

26/09/2026

Thank you for coming and singing for us at the Festival Concert tonight, Lichfield Tuneless Choir! 🎶

Quick selfie before our concert at Lichfield Festival of Music tonight! X

26/09/2026

🎶 And that’s a wrap on the 2026 Lichfield Festival of Music! 🎶

What a day - and what a way to bring our Festival to a close! ❤️

A huge well done to everyone who performed today, from our youngest instrumentalists to our adult performers. Whether it was your first time on the Festival stage or you’ve taken part many times before, we hope you enjoyed sharing your music and are proud of what you achieved. 🎻🎹🎺🎶

And then, this evening, we had the pleasure of celebrating even more wonderful performances at our Festival Concert. What a lovely way to finish three Saturdays filled with music, enthusiasm, nerves, smiles and some truly memorable performances!

Three Saturdays.

Hundreds of performances.

So much music.

And one very special Festival. ❤️

We hope you’ve enjoyed being part of the 2026 Lichfield Festival of Music as much as we’ve enjoyed having you with us.

And now…we think we might put our feet up for a little while! 😴😂

Thank you, everyone - and congratulations! 🎶❤️

🎉 See you on 6th, 13th and 20th November 2027 for our 50th Anniversary Festival! 🎉

26/09/2026

The Lichfield Tuneless Choir are ending tonight’s Festival Concert with Happy Together…with audience participation! 🎶

26/09/2026

We’re kicking off the Festival Concert with the Lichfield Tuneless Choir…who sing like no one is listening! 🎶

26/09/2026

The church is packed for our Festival Concert!

26/09/2026

Don’t forget to get your raffle tickets on the door!