SPIRITED

Spirited, the Festival Gazette, was launched in March 2011. This exciting publication contains extensive and in-depth features on composers, works to be featured during the forthcoming Festival, the history and significance of venues associated with the EMF, and a full report, with photos, of the previous Festival, as well as several pages of CD and book reviews and recommendations.

 

More information about the publication, as well as an online subscription form, will be available on this page soon.

 

 

LATEST NEWS

Please join us on 6 April at St James’s Church, Sussex Gardens, London for a very special day of concerts and talks given by acclaimed musicians to raise vital funds to help ensure the continuation of the English Music Festival. The full programme is available here; and tickets may be booked through our online Events Box Office. Please do come and support us — the day promises to be a convivial and enjoyable occasion, and you will be helping to enable the Festival to continue staging events for many years to come.

Booking for the 2024 May EMF is now open for Friends of the Festival — general booking will open on Wednesday 27 March. As always, discounts are available for residents local to the Festival’s home, Dorchester-on-Thames; and these special prices may be obtained by entering your postcode at the Box Office’s front page. To book your tickets, please follow this link.

We are delighted to announce the programme for the 2024 May EMF. This year, for the first time, all our events will be held in Dorchester-on-Thames, with the concerts taking place in the glorious surroundings of Dorchester Abbey; the talks in the historic Village Hall. The full programme, with details of venues, works and artists, may be seen on this page. Booking for Friends of the Festival will open in early March, with general booking opening two weeks later; tickets will be available by post or through our online Box Office.

We have recently introduced a new tier to our Friends’ Scheme for Corporate Friends — so, if you own, or help to run, a company or a similar organisation, and would like to enjoy the special benefits that this tier offers, please do consider joining at this level. For more details about our Friends’ Scheme, please follow this link for a description of the tiers and their benefits, together with information about how to join.