Sat 23rd June - Sunday 1st July

Diary

The diary of events for this year's festival is now complete. Programmes are available from mid-April onwards in outlets around town, or downloadable from this site.

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Welcome...

...to the 17th Annual Beaminster Festival

There is so much to celebrate in this year of 2012 with the festivities of the Diamond Jubilee of HM The Queen and the excitement of the London Olympics and Paralympics. Communities throughout Dorset will be celebrating in their own way, and Beaminster is no exception. To mark The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee, we have commissioned a special piece of organ music from local composer, Chris Toon, to be premiered at the Festival Service on Sunday 24 June at St. Mary’s Church. With the country still suffering from the world economic recession, we have found it very hard to secure financial support for this year’s programme of events. We would, however, like to thank all those of you who have yet again made this year’s festival possible and enabled us to host a programme of events which we hope will appeal to everyone.

We are resolved to keep our tickets affordable, and we plan to host one or two FREE events as always. We continue to fund music workshops for primary school children in this area as well as for the students of Beaminster School. Festivities again take off with the popular Dancing in the Square on Saturday 23 June to which everyone is invited, and continues with a programme of music, literary talks, open air theatre, exhibitions and ends with The President’s Concert featuring the brilliant Academy of St. Martin in the Fields. Last year Beaminster’s Big Day was a huge success and enjoyed by the many people who flocked to the event in Beaminster School’s Playing Fields. With so many special events in this year’s diary, we have decided that we should wait until 2013 for the next BIG DAY and plans for this have already started. Any suggestions for the 2013 event, please contact David and Maureen Wootton on 01308 861 145

Looking forward to seeing you in the early Summer at the festival.

Tanya Bruce-Lockhart
Festival Director

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Beaminster Festival Booking Office
The Yarn Barton Centre
Fleet Street
Beaminster
Dorset DT8 3DR

Tel: 01308 862943
Email: beamfestbooking@btinternet.com