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Hertford Music Festival is an annual celebration of local live music and includes a wide variety of genres, from classical, choral and jazz through to rock, folk and world music.
Now in it's 18th year, The Hertford Music Festival moves to August for 2012, opening with Rock At The Castle on Sunday 5th August.
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Category Archives: News
Hertford Music Festival 2012: This year it’s August!
FRIDAY 3RD AUGUST TO MONDAY 27TH AUGUST Yeah, we’re changing the month again! But please read on because we’re pretty sure you’ll agree that this is our best option. In the year’s first Hertford Music Festival meeting of supporters, helpers, musicians, publicans, councillors, sound engineers and promoters, Kev Saunders outlined the options regarding the timing [...]
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After Show Parties
We’re all set for Rock At The Castle on Sunday. The show has to end at 7.30pm but don’t let that stop you rocking! The ‘Official’ Rock at the Castle ‘after party’ is at The Ram in Fore Street… Lovely barbecue food and the wondrous Dan Tan Train Experience playing a mental mix of music! [...]
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Rivals To Close Festival
The final gig of this year’s Hertford Music Festival takes place at The Lord Haig on Sunday 7th August. Following the festival’s showpiece event Rock At The Castle, The Rivals will be playing The Lord Haig in Railway Street from 8pm to 11pm. The five-piece covers band perform material by The Beatles, Stones, Free, and [...]
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Live at The Lord Haig
Popular town centre pub The Lord Haig has four acts lined up for this year’s Music Festival. Kicking off the series of shows are covers band The Mighty Wonderfuls, whose repertoire includes Make Me Smile (Cockney Rebel) , Baggy Trousers (Madness) and Jamming (Bob Marley). Also scheduled for July are a pair of female solo [...]
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Sonic Boomtown
Hertford Music Festival’s Musical Mystery Tour rocks Hertford like never before. Hertford rocked from lunchtime till bedtime on Sunday 3rd July with the biggest and best ever Musical Mystery Tour, featuring more than 200 musicians at 27 venues around the town. “With so many venues taking part, I was worried we’d be spreading our audience [...]
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Beanebytes Sponsor Hertford Museum & White Hart Singalong
Watton-at-Stone web design company Beanebytes have just stepped in to support Hertford Music Festival with some sponsorship to cover the cost of the pianist to accompany Luisa Maria Rosina at Hertford Museum and, crucially, the lyric sheets we’ll be handing out to everyone who’s up for joining in with the Vineyard Jazz Trio’s singalong session [...]
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The Music Lab Showcase
The Six Templars in The Wash will be hosting the Music Lab Showcase as part of Sunday’s Musical Mystery Tour. Six artists will perform during two sessions in the afternoon and evening. The schedule is: 1pm – 5pm Ihbnia – Acoustic set Songbirdie – Acoustic Set Rookes Endgame – 4 piece band Unit 22 – [...]
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More Hectic and Eclectic Than Ever Before
From The Vineyard Jazz Trio’s singalong closing the show outside The White Hart to Royal Philharmonic Orchestra clarinettist, Luisa Maria Rosina and her accompanist in Hertford Museum’s Knot Garden. Just to prove that the Hertford Music Festival Musical Mystery Tour’s not just about raucous rock ‘n’ roll, Music Director Kev Saunders has added two particularly [...]
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Tagged as: Musical Mystery Tour
Rock At The Castle Acoustic Lineup
The schedule for the Insomnia Music Live Acoustic Stage at this year’s Rock At The Castle has been announced. Six acts are currently confirmed to play between the main acts on the day. 13.00 – 13.10 Daisy Lewis 13.45 – 13.55 Sam Smith 14.30 – 14.40 Nuala 15.15 – 15.25 Leon Colven 16.00 – 16.10 [...]
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Waitrose To The Rescue
Last-minute funds from John Lewis Partnership’s Music Matters scheme has provided a last-minute boost to Hertford Music Festival. With just a couple of weeks to go until the Musical Mystery Tour launch event for this year’s Hertford Music Festival on Sunday 3rd July, Music Director Kev Saunders and the enthusiastic new bunch of committee members [...]