Join the Newbury Festival Parade

Karen Neville

Musicians and performers invited to take part in the parade to launch this year’s Newbury Spring Festival, May 10^th-24th

Newbury Spring Festival is launching this year’s celebration with a free outdoor festival parade with an open invitation to musicians and performers to take part. 

The parade will be led by the Giant Bandmaster Puppet through Newbury town centre marking the start of this year’s festival which runs from May 10^th to 24^th. 

Newbury Spring Festival and the Corn Exchange are now working together looking for performers. Community bands, choirs, musical ensembles and dancers are all invited to take part and make the parade a vibrant and exciting celebration of music in all its forms. The Festival Parade will take place from 3pm until 6pm on Saturday, 10th May. 

Rehearsals of your act should take place through your own group meetings and acts will need to be available for a parade rehearsal the week before the event in addition to being fully rehearsed and available for the parade on the day itself. 

Interested? Email katherine@cornexchangenew.co.uk with an outline of who you are and what you would like to do. 

The parade will launch what promises to be “two weeks of world class music”. 

Newbury Spring Festival is one of the most popular and successful music festivals in the South of England. Over the last 40 years the Festival has grown hugely in size and quality building up a reputation of international status. The very best young musical stars appear alongside some of the world’s most distinguished and famous names.