Alderley Edge Festival 2025
6th - 10th May


Music, Speech & Drama

ONLINE ENTRY & SYLLABUS
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Welcome to the Alderley Edge Festival of Music, Speech & Drama

For well over a hundred years the Festival has been providing an annual platform for performers of all ages to showcase their skills as singers, musicians, actors and public speakers.

Every year more than 2,500 people take part in competitive classes held in venues around our pretty village of Alderley Edge.  There is a real buzz in the village when the Festival is in full swing. Children and adults from the region arrive armed with instruments, sheet music and books of poetry, all having prepared for weeks, if not months, to perfect their pieces.

Our aim is to encourage young people, and older, to grow in confidence through performing in front of an audience and a professional adjudicator. Our adjudicators are all accredited by the British and International Federation of Festivals and have many years of experience from festivals across the country and beyond.

The majority of our performers are of school age (Reception – Year 13), but we have open classes for performers of all ages. We have a wide range of classes: children’s and adult choirs; solo and group instrumentalists; poetry recitals and Shakespearean soliloquys and much more besides.

Even if you can’t perform in one of our classes, you are more than welcome to be part of the audience – parents, grandparents, friends, neighbours and anyone else who enjoys seeing talented performers taking to the stage, will be entertained and delighted at the talent the local area has to offer.

Please do come along and support our Festival so we can carry on giving performance opportunities to our future generations.

The Alderley Edge Festival will change to the new BIFF marking scheme at the May 2025 Festival.

2025 Festival Countdown

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OUR SUPPORTERS

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This Festival has an outstanding reputation. It has moved with the times while still preserving the best of the past. Long may it continue.

I salute the indefatigable work of all involved. May the Festival continue to go from strength to strength.

Having seen the huge benefit and enjoyment that my daughters derived from taking part in the Festival, it is very rewarding as well as being great fun to be able to return as a steward.

Every child who enters the Alderley Edge Festival is incredibly lucky to have such a hard working, dedicated committee ensuring that children of all levels of talent, in both music and speech & drama, have the opportunity to develop their life skills and passions.

I have definitely seen my children’s confidence grow as a consequence of taking part in the Festival. Thank you for providing them with such a great opportunity.

The Alderley Edge Festival provides a brilliant opportunity for every competitor to challenge themselves to the best of their ability. It’s a really fulfilling experience.