2024 Presteigne Festival | Thank you

Huge thanks to everyone – audience, artists, composers, funders, staff and volunteers – who made the 2024 Presteigne Festival such an unqualified success. The Festival was just the most positive and uplifting experience, and a bumper year for ticket sales, with 84% seat occupancy over the whole five-day period.

Our Britten feature proved particularly popular, and with Richard Blackford as composer-in-residence, new music was still very much in evidence, with premieres of no fewer than 16 works of which 11 were specially commissioned.

In addition to the outstanding music programme, other events included showings of three Wales-produced films (in association with Presteigne Screen), readings and talks from Sioned Davies, Thomas Hyde, Rhiannon Mathias, Nicholas Murray, Gavin Plumley, Oliver Soden, Peter Sutton and a Bat walk in association with the Radnorshire Wildlife Trust.

Local galleries and attractions contributed to the Festival with other arts-based activity including exhibitions at the Sidney Nolan Trust and the Presteigne ‘Open Studios’ weekend which showed work by 36 local artists and makers, including several supported by the Sidney Nolan Trust Youth Arts Programme.