We ran our FIFTEENTH Bridgnorth Music and Arts Festival in 2023. The Bridgnorth Festival started 2006 and has grown year on year. After a 3 year hiatus brought on by a few things out of our control….like a global pandemic, the festival returned in 2023 and we all set for an amazing sixteenth festival in 2024!
This wouldn’t have been possible without the hard work and support of many people, so a huge thank you to everyone who has helped us to reach this milestone. Organisers, performers, venues, supporters and audiences, it just keeps on getting better year on year.
The Bridgnorth Music & Arts Festival champions original music, with all the main stage artists performing their own music. The festival supports emerging talent and is proud to give a platform to artists who are working hard to bring their own vision to the world.
In recent years the Bridgnorth Festival has hosted Rainbreakers, The White Feather Collective (whose key members went on to become The Heavy Heavy), Macy-O, Heidi Brown, Troy Redfern and many more incredible artists.
Volunteers
The Bridgnorth Music & Arts Festival is 100% volunteer run by an incredibly dedicated group of people who truly believe in the importance of the festival to the town. The festival is supported by the towns businesses and through the in-kind support of the council who allow the festival to happen in the towns shared spaces.
How did it begin?
Bridgnorth Folk Festival ran a free event in the High Street on the Sunday of August bank holiday weekend. They went from strength to strength and in 2006 they moved to Shrewsbury, leaving a void that was filled by three guys from Highley who wanted to continue with a festival over the August Bank Holiday. Malcolm, Alan and Mark alongside sound engineer Adam Harley, organised a series of great events including a festival in the High Street and events throughout the area.
The festival committee has changed over the years but we still follow a similar format with a High Street Stage on the Sunday and the Quayside Stage on bank holiday Monday. We now also have an acoustic stage on the Saturday of the bank holiday weekend over at the castle Gardens plus LOADS of other great events happening all around the town including Poetry events hosted at the library and music across the town in our amazing pubs.
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