Budleigh Music Festival

Budleigh Music Festival 25 June - 4 July 2026
A celebration of live classical music in beautiful East Devon.

Day One of Budleigh Music Festival 2026 is here, and we open with something truly meaningful. Tonight at 7.30pm, Seaside...
25/06/2026

Day One of Budleigh Music Festival 2026 is here, and we open with something truly meaningful.

Tonight at 7.30pm, Seaside Reflections: Memories and Dreams is an RNLI Benefit Concert in honour of Matthew Upham, a dear friend of the Festival and passionate supporter of live music, and in memory of both men lost at sea on Christmas Day 2025.

A mixture of celebratory and reflective music featuringSoprano Sky Ingram, Saxophonist Huw Wiggin, Palm Court music from Rebecca Smith and her trio, and award winning composer and pianist Mark Chait, this is an evening to lift your hearts and support the courageous work of the RNLI. St Peter’s Church, 7.30pm. Very few tickets now available at £15 and £10.

budleighmusicfestival.co.uk/how-to-book/

BMF2026

24/06/2026

What a treat to welcome Bob and Penny from ITV West Country to St Peter’s Church today, filming a segment about tomorrow night’s RNLI Benefit Concert.

The concert – Seaside Reflections: Memories and Dreams – opens this year’s festival and was added in memory of Matthew Upham, a dear friend of the festival and passionate supporter of live music in Budleigh Salterton.

Here’s our Chair, Kate Somerby, giving her best performance off-stage.

BMF2026

The festival is here.After months of planning, rehearsing, and anticipating, Budleigh Music Festival 2026 opens tomorrow...
24/06/2026

The festival is here.

After months of planning, rehearsing, and anticipating, Budleigh Music Festival 2026 opens tomorrow. Ten days of extraordinary live music in Budleigh Salterton, from world premieres to choral masterworks, BBC Young Musician winners to family events. The real thing. We hope you’re as ready as we are.
Tickets still available at the link below.

budleighmusicfestival.co.uk/how-to-book/

23/06/2026

50 Years of Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep & Friends with Aardman in concert

Budleigh Music Festival | Friday 3 July

Celebrate 50 years of Aardman with a joyful big-screen concert featuring Wallace & Gromit, Shaun the Sheep, Morph, Timmy Time, Creature Comforts and more, with the soundtrack performed live by a world-class orchestra.

Created in partnership with Aardman, this heartwarming and hilarious new production from Carrot Productions brings together favourite moments from across five decades of British animation. It opens with a specially created montage sequence and score that showcases Wallace & Gromit's most daring escapades, Shaun the Sheep's funniest moments, and appearances from many familiar characters.

The concert culminates in a full screening of Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers, with the soundtrack performed live.
As an extra special bonus, you can even have your photo taken with Wallace & Gromit after the show!

🎟️ Tickets from £15 (children from £10): budleighmusicfestival.co.uk/how-to-book/

© Aardman Animations Ltd. All rights reserved.

One Cello. One Cosmos. One Night.Switzerland-based cellist James Morley has been called “Australia’s most exciting young...
22/06/2026

One Cello. One Cosmos. One Night.

Switzerland-based cellist James Morley has been called “Australia’s most exciting young cellist” by Limelight magazine, and on 2 July, Budleigh Salterton gets to hear why. He opens the evening with Elgar’s Cello Concerto, one of the most quintessentially English and greatest cello concertos of them all.

From there, the evening expands outward, literally. Holst’s The Planets Suite is performed live alongside a sequence of real NASA imagery, choreographed by Seattle-based video artist Adrian Wyard into a sweeping journey through the solar system.
“Adrian Wyard’s visuals for The Planets are stunning. More than that, they are perfectly suited to enhance the music,” says Delta David Gier, Music Director of the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra.

The event is the debut performance of Crescent Collective, a new chamber orchestra founded by Jason Thornton, conducting his own creation for the first time on a Budleigh stage.

From deep within to deep space, all in one evening at St Peter’s Church.

Crescent Collective
📅 2 July | 7:30pm
📍 St Peter’s Church, Budleigh Salterton
🎟️ Book at budleighmusicfestival.co.uk/how-to-book/

LiveMusic

A week from today, the music begins.Budleigh Music Festival returns on 25 June, and we can’t wait to welcome you to Budl...
18/06/2026

A week from today, the music begins.

Budleigh Music Festival returns on 25 June, and we can’t wait to welcome you to Budleigh Salterton for ten days of extraordinary music. From world premieres to BBC Young Musician winners, from family events to choral masterworks, there is something here for everyone.

Tickets are still available for most events, so if you haven’t yet booked your place, now is the time.

budleighmusicfestival.co.uk/how-to-book/

What to expect at Budleigh Music Festival 2026Ten extraordinary days of music in beautiful Budleigh Salterton, from inti...
15/06/2026

What to expect at Budleigh Music Festival 2026

Ten extraordinary days of music in beautiful Budleigh Salterton, from intimate morning recitals to spectacular evening concerts.

Daytime Highlights - Morning and lunchtime recitals featuring rising stars and established artists: organ and piano duets, saxophone, double bass, a clarinet viola and piano trio, and a relaxed concert welcoming families and those who prefer an informal atmosphere.

Evening Spectaculars - International soloists, choral masterworks, and full orchestral programmes. Highlights include the world premiere of Bob Chilcott's Don't Go Extinct!, “Simply Sondheim” filling St Peter's with West End voices, multi-award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe, Elgar and Holst reimagined by Crescent Collective, and the festival finale, Wolf Hall in Concert.
Special Events - Aardman in Concert brings Wallace, Gromit and friends to the screen with live orchestra, and La Vie en Rose returns for a third year by popular demand.

Family and Community - Music For All at the Public Hall and Temple Church on 27 June offers creative workshops for all ages with Duo Tutti and Sound of the Streets. Free Community Music sessions at Temple Gardens run daily from 29 June to 4 July.

A Festival for Everyone - BSL interpretation at select concerts and concessionary tickets available.
Venues open 30 minutes before each concert. Bar available for evening events.
Book now: budleighmusicfestival.co.uk/how-to-book/

Not all of the best festival moments happen in a concert hall.From Monday 29 June, Temple Gardens at Wesley’s Café comes...
11/06/2026

Not all of the best festival moments happen in a concert hall.

From Monday 29 June, Temple Gardens at Wesley’s Café comes alive with six days of free outdoor music, running every day until Saturday 4 July. Twenty-two different acts will take to the garden across the week, spanning folk, pop, blues, jazz and plenty more besides. Something for everyone, with no ticket required.

Community Music at Temple Gardens is supported by Budleigh Music Festival and funded by the Creative East Devon Fund. There’ll be a bucket collection each day in aid of Launchpad, and flyers on the High Street with all the details

10:30am to 3:30pm daily. Just turn up!

📅 29 June to 4 July

📍 Wesley’s Café Gardens, Budleigh Salterton 🎶 Free entry, bucket collection for Launchpad

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None of this happens without some very special people.Behind every concert, every warm welcome at the door, and every pe...
08/06/2026

None of this happens without some very special people.

Behind every concert, every warm welcome at the door, and every perfectly placed programme, there are the volunteers and supporters who make Budleigh Music Festival possible. Our volunteers give their time with such generosity and good humour that their enthusiasm becomes part of the festival itself. And to our sponsors and supporters, whose belief in live music makes it all happen — thank you.

We cannot wait to do this together. It’s almost time!

budleighmusicfestival.co.uk/how-to-book/

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