Bedfordshire Festival of Music

Every Month of March

Every year, a lot of people flock to see the Bedfordshire Festival of Music, Speech and Drama held in the Corn Exchange in Bedford. This festival, which is a competition of music, speech and drama, is held every February or March of the year.

This annual event was founded in the year of 1923 and is considered to be one of the most successful and biggest festivals in the county of Bedfordshire. This, as the festival provides a venue where music, speech and drama talents from all over the county are given the chance to perform their skills. The participants to the competition are aged 5 to over 65 years old and perform in a wide range of classes like solo singing, full choirs, creative performance, verse speaking for 5 year olds as well as religious text and Shakespeare readings. Orchestas to performances of Electrical Guitars and Oboes and others are included in the competition as well.

One of the groups that performed during the festival is the “Bit of String”, which is a quartet that used strings, brass and woodwind instruments for their competition piece in the “Chamber Music Ensemble Class”. They won in the competition for their amazing rendition of the Streich Quartet No. 2 by Alexander Borodin. The group was awarded first prize and the Henry Burridge Cup.

The festival slated for this year is scheduled to start on March 1 and will have its culmination on March 8, with the gala evening. There will be three sessions of performances everyday during the festival.