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We’re thrilled that the Mary Rose & Royal George Morris Dancers will join us for this summer’s event.
They will dance on Saturday 23rd September – times and locations to follow.

Mary Rose and Royal George are a Portsmouth based dancing team, who aim to bring a lively new approach to the entertaining morris style of dancing. Their unique style takes its inspiration from a number of morris traditions including, Border, Cotswold, Molly and Rapper. These influences added with their own unique flair make them a true pleasure to watch.
Established in 2015 they are building a fantastic reputation for themselves as a team of unique dancers who are fun and enjoyable to watch and socialise with.

Find out more: Mary Rose and Royal George.

Come and have a go on our new stage!
The new stage is open from midday until 4pm on both Saturday and Sunday.
Interested? Email rnash10@hotmail.com

The popular `Making Your Mark` returns this Wednesday, 15th February at the Waverley.
It’s just £2 for the session (10am to 12 noon) to include tea or coffee.
Come and have fun and brush up on your ukulele skills. What’s not to like?!

What an absolutely fabulous weekend! ⭐️
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Thank you for sharing our festival with us here in Bognor Regis – it has already been cited as ~
“A wonderful, well-received festival”
“Another great festival”
“2022 was probably the best festival so far”
“Such fun!”
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With huge thanks to all the wonderfully talented people involved – the musicians, the crafters, the singers, the dancers, the technical teams, the workshop leaders, the stewards, the venues and promoters etc and to all those who bought tickets to support our local music scene.
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It was so good to enjoy live music, dance, workshops and so much more, together.⠀
We’ll be sharing more images (and videos) from the event over the following few days. ⠀
Do tag us into your festival images and videos, we’d love to see them.⠀
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With love and HUGE thanks, the Southdowns Music Festival team.⠀
Photo credits to @lynandtrevsports

Huge thanks to the autumn edition of Chichester Area Talking News for the interview with Roger Nash, our festival chair person and organiser.

You can listen to autumn version of Talking News just here: Chichester Area Talking News.

The programme includes:
Introduction to the Autumn 2022 edition of Insight
David Bathurst on singing Beatles songs
Roger Nash – Southdowns Music Festival
Shetland Islands 2 with Kate Cameron
ROVI – Melissa Ratledge and Lesley Gogarty
The Kings Ride – Helen Millen
Phil Hewitt talks about the Chichester Festival Theatre
Chartres with Michael Bevis
Chestnut Tree House – Nicky Clark
Dragonflies and Aircraft with Richart Williamson

Huge thanks to V2 Radio for their help with the promotion of our festival!

V2 Radio Advertisement

The Country Diary In Song – A Folk Musical Tribute To An Edwardian Lady | Saturday 24th September
2.30pm | Regis Centre Studio 1
South Downs regulars, acapella quintet Broomdasher bring their much much-praised folk musical based on Edith Holden’s Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, to this year’s Festival.

In the show, almost thirty of the most popular traditional folk songs – including Wild Mountain Thyme; Bushes and Briars; The Seeds of Love and If I was a Blackbird – take you on a nostalgic journey through the year in a musical version of the classic book recreating a heart-warming and intimate atmosphere – with encouragement to join in the familiar choruses.

Described as “Wonderful” by Fatea Magazine, “Fantastic Entertainment” by Folking and “A Stunning Evocation of Rural Life” by The Birmingham Mail, the show has entertained sold-out houses across the country.

Tickets for this event are £10.50, concessions £8.50 and free to our 4-day festival ticket holders. Tickets are available at www.regiscentre.co.uk

Here’s a reminder of our forthcoming out-reach project dates:

Wednesday 11th May – Selsey ‘Making Your Mark’
Saturday 14th May – `Shanty Heads` at RAFA Club, Bognor Regis
Wednesday 18th May – Bognor `Making Your Mark` at Waverley
Saturday 21st May – `FamyShanty` at Regis Centre, Bognor Regis

Advance notice: Waverley Jam Sun 5th June at Queens Platinum Jubilee, 4pm, Waterloo Square

We do hope you can join us!

Find out more via our Outreach Project page

Welcome to FamyShanty 🌟

Bringing families closer together through music is the aim of FamyShanty, our new and exciting out-reach project from Southdowns Music Festival.

Monthly sessions will last for around 90 minutes with experienced music tutors leading mainly primary aged children and their parents in learning songs on ukuleles based around well known Sea Shanties.

`Mikes Music` boss, Mike Bosley, one of the Project partners said: “The last few years have been very difficult for families with the Covid Pandemic and other pressures. So FamyShanty is a way of redressing this and offering something that both parents and their children can enjoy, whilst learning new skills and helping improve their overall well-being. We also plan to use IT to make learning resources available on YouTube and other platforms so that participants can continue learning and practising between physical sessions`.

To find out more or to get involved, just call/text 07751 594285.

View and download the songs for the next session:

Leave Her Johnny
Randy Dandy
South Australia
The Worst Old Ship

View guided videos via our YouTube channel.