Our website, http://hcfmsd.co.uk will be updated shortly with the 2025 Syllabus.
We have new categories, including Mime, new Musical Theatre options and other new classes.
Be sure to look at the full syllabus, not just classes you have entered before.
Our new Publicity guru, Amelia, is busy refreshing all our social media prior to the launch of the 2025 Syllabus.
Use this QR code to see the new Instagram page
TikTok and Facebook will be coming shortly.
Alan Connell (Treasurer)
Please support the Harrogate Competitive Festival - we need your help to continue helping young, developing, passionate people study and perform their arts.
Running since 1936 we aim to advance the education of the public in the
arts of music, speech, drama and dance in all their branches. We hold an
annual festival, costing ~£20k, where mainly young people can perform
for an audience of friends and family and receive an adjudication from
independent, professional adjudicators.
Every year our charity, staffed entirely by volunteers, runs the Festival with an operating shortfall of circa £5,000 per year, on average. We have been supported by donations from third parties for years. Those funds are running dry and we now need help. The Festival pays to hire the facilities used and provide adjudicators.
If you can find just £2 per month to donate to us, this can really make a difference.
The button below makes it easy to set up a regular payment, catering for Gift Aid where appropriate.
Thank you
Derek Starling and Alan Connell - Trustees, Volunteers.
This year's festival was very successful with over 1300 school-age students performing in over 150 classes across more than 29 different categories, covering all ages from 4 to 19 (with a few older adults too!!).
The Young Musician of the Festival winner was flautist Alannah Saphir who was awarded the Chairman's Trophy and £250 generously donated for the purpose by the Finzi Trust (www.geraldfinzi.org). The Trust has supported the Festival over the last three years and we are very grateful for that support.
The winner of the Speech & Drama Championship was Isabella Withy. She was awarded the Festival Speech & Drama Trophy and £250 funded by the Festival itself.
Planning for 2025 has already begun. Congratulations to everyone who took part this year and a big THANK YOU to all the volunteers and donors who generously give of their time and money to keep this very valuable local festival going. It wouldn't happen without you.
We always need more volunteers and donors. Please contact me for more details.
Alan Connell
Treasurer (treasurer@hcfmsd.co.uk)
At long last the 2024 Programme is now available for purchase at Music House , Cheltenham Parade, Harrogate. Or you can get a hard copy from the Treasurer at treasurer@hcfmsd.co.uk for £4.00 + £1.95 postage. Please supply a postal address. Payment should be made via PayPal to Harrogate Competitive Festival for Music, Speech & Drama
’Harrogate Competitive Festival
for
Music, Speech and Drama
March 1st-3rd,
9th&10th,
16th&17th
Harrogate High School
Ainsty Road,
Harrogate
HG1 4AP
Harrogate Competitive Festival for Music, Speech and Drama,
Registered Charity 510706, was established in 1936.
Affiliated to the
British and International Federation of Festivals
Programme £4.00
www.hcfmsd.co.uk
Alan and I are working through the schedule.
The first draft is out to the committee and the section leaders for review and for any adjustments / corrections. We hope to finalise this by the end of the weekend (28th January), so that next week we can send correspondents their personalised schedule.
Please bear with us.
Kind regards
Alan & Derek
Alan Connell & Derek Starling
Festival Secretaries (Temporary and Volunteers)
PS If you think you could do the Festival Secretary role, we'd be very happy to hear from you.
Please note that the closing time and date to submit entries for the 2024 Festival has been put back to midnight on the 15th January
Alan Connell
Treasurer
