Woodbridge's original multi venue and multi genre festival returns for its flagship Saturday event in Elmhurst Park on Saturday 2 September.
Part of over a week long festival of events, this year th party starts with legendary reggae act Aswad playing the Community Hall (sold out), see two days in the park (Friday 1 September and Saturday 2 September) and rolls onto the foliowing weekend (9 September).
This year WFAM turns Eleven! We've been shortlisted for a Green Impact Award. And we're introducing a new health and well being zone to our event in the park.
Here's a recap of what we're about...
Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music is a not-for-profit, community run festival that has been supporting and promoting music and other creative endeavours in our area for the last decade.
As well as bringing music and art events into town, holding events in parks and public squares and projecting onto the Tide Mill and other historic buildings, we've donated music equipment to six local schools, run art and literature open call competitions attracting 100s of entrants, supported an Alzheimer's choir, held eco summer schools and in class eco sessions and donated funds to local good causes. We are committed to sustainability. A third of our festival site is devoted to our eco zone and this year we've been shortlisted for the East Suffolk Green Impact Award.
Following a series of music and light projection nights around Woodbridge in 2010/2011, the first festival was held in 2012 as an alternative Jubilee event. This was followed by a trial multi-venue event (2013) and the first Elmhurst Park festival (2014).
Featuring pioneering, established artists alongside homegrown talent, previous acts have included Jazzie B - Soul II Soul, Martyn Ware - Human League/ Heaven 17, Leee John - Imagination and Gorillaz, Diesel and Rocky - Xpress 2, Phil Hartnoll - Orbital, Mark More of S Express, Matt Black - Coldcut, Severino - Horse Meat Disco, Red Snapper, Faze Action, Flying Mojito Bros, Les Spaine, Richard Norris - The Grid/ Jack the Tab, Chris Coco - Cafe Del Mar, Justin Robertson - Hacienda/ Lion Rock, Si Begg, Polar Bear, UK hip hop pioneer TY, The Woodentops, White Noise, Salad, Phil Mison - Cafe Del Mar/ Reverso 68, The Reflex, Mental Overdrive (Norway), Aggie Frost (Norway), Noisy Pots (Czech), Cleo T (France), Bratri(Czech), Aiko (Czech), Maella (Czech), Cleo Gould and Jonathan Morton, Jesse Quinn, Hannah Saunders & Liz Simmons (USA), Run Time, Bird Radio, Ten Fé, festival programmer and host DJ Ben Osborne - Noise of Art, Neil Thornton - Lazer Magnetic, Swallow and the Wolf, Spatial Awareness, ARMS, Richard Haugh, Mirror Signal, Love Nor Money, Adam Double, Fish Claw, Robert Castelani, Kevin Pearce, Peter Hepworth, Dingus Khan, Booda French, Aartwork, Caswell, Girl In A Gale, Laura Wyatt, Charlie Law, Stephen Hodd, Robert Brown, Deben Collective, Andy Heasemen, Jimmy Green, J.S & The Lockerbillies, Daniel Lee Harvey, Neil Boast, Kelly Pritchard and Kevin Walford, Bobby Bucy, Adrian Wiggins, Smoothgroove, nonsuchdjs, Talulah Goodtimes, David Freeland, Hewsin, live broadcsts by BBC Introducing and many more.
The arts programe has seen commissions and open call competitions and included works by Alice Stallard, Mark Scott Wood, James Hutchinson, Brie Harrison, Woodbridge Art Club and more.
Spoken word, poetry and literature strands have included poets Kirsty Allison, H E Ross and Peter Bloor, Chris Charlesworth (discussing his book of unseen Beatles photographs and friendship with Lennon), Zoë Howe, biographer of Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac, Daryl Easlea, biographer of Peter Gabriel and members of Woodbridge writers and poetry groups.
Our environment section, which includes one third of the festvial site, summer schools, in class eco sessions and the annual Fish Friendly Fireworks projected on the Tide Mill, has been shortlisted for the East Suffolk Green Impact Award 2023.
The Festival is not for profit. But we have donated art and music equipment to six schools, an Alzheimer ’s choir and the Jess Foundation memorial fund, set up to support local music.
More pictures below... we look forward to seeing you in September.
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