Worcester Music Festival
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Worcester Music Festival Is an annual music festival
Music festival
A music festival is a festival oriented towards music that is sometimes presented with a theme such as musical genre, nationality or locality of musicians, or holiday. They are commonly held outdoors, and are often inclusive of other attractions such as food and merchandise vending machines,...

 held in Worcester
Worcester
The City of Worcester, commonly known as Worcester, , is a city and county town of Worcestershire in the West Midlands of England. Worcester is situated some southwest of Birmingham and north of Gloucester, and has an approximate population of 94,000 people. The River Severn runs through the...

 town centre during the 3rd week of August founded in 2008 by Chris Bennion as a platform to encourage live, local and original music in Worcester and the surrounding areas and is staged in over 30 pubs, clubs, cafes, and historic buildings around or near the city centre with over 200 artists taking part; Recently acts have applied from further afield such as Egypt Russia and America but the organisers try to keep the majority of the acts local

with more than 20 different promoters now involved in the festival, ensuring that every genre of music is covered and every music fan is catered for the festival is also closely linked to BBC Hereford & Worcester with a stage arranged by the BBC Introducing
BBC Introducing
BBC Introducing is the brand for new music programmes across the BBC radio stations, showcasing unsigned, self signed and other emerging musical talent primarily from the UK. Launched in 2007 the Introducing brand brings programming from across the BBC under a unified brand with each show retaining...

show and featuring acts featured on the show broadcast live on the opening friday night of the festival The Festival is a non-profit making event run by an enthusiastic team of 25+ volunteers, largely local musicians or people associated with the Worcester music scene. Not only does it provide a showcase for local musical talent of all genres, but it provides education and professional development opportunities through a variety of workshops and clinics

Charities

Each year the Festival supports different local charities selected from a list of nominations. Money for the nominated charities is raised by way of a raffle, donations, collection buckets at the venues and merchandising sales.

2008

  • Headway worcester trust : http://www.headwayworcestertrust.com/
  • Acorns children's hospice : http://www.acorns.org.uk/
  • St Richards hospice :http://www.strichards.org.uk/
  • Tudor house :http://www.tudorhouse.org.uk/

2009

  • Worcester Talking Newspapers For The Blind
  • Choice Hospital Radio :http://www.choiceradio2.org.uk/

2010

  • Worcester Wheels :http://www.worcestervolunteercentre.org.uk/community_transport
  • Worcester Snoezelen :http://www.worcestersnoezelen.org.uk/
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