4-10 July 2010
Birmingham
Open air and indoors, the National Festival has become one of the major highlights in the music education calendar. Packed with inspirational performances, workshops and conferences, this seven day festival brings together 12,000 of the country's most exciting performers.
The UK’s most exciting youth music festival!
Inspirational performances of jazz, orchestral, rock, folk, urban, wind, brass, pop, choral and chamber music. Plus workshops, conferences, commissions and new collaborative projects.
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Free singing workshops by Sing Up for children and their families, MAC
1400-1700
Followed by a special large scale performance at 5pm by over 500 school children from Birmingham in Cannon Hill Park led by musicians from CBSO, Ex Cathedra and Black Voices
Infants & Juniors, Symphony Hall
Age Limit: 13 Time Limit: 10 minutes
Session 1: 1100-1305
Session 2: 1405-1630
Session 3: 1640-1920
Chase Lane Big Band Sound
Ewasere
Fair Oak Ensemble
Foxmoor Primary Brass Band
Hampstead Norreys C of E Primary Band
Highway Rhythms
Kingsmeadow 11-13 Steel Band
Layton Primary School Orchestra
Leckhampton School Infant Choir
Little Voices
London Christian School Choir
Nether Green Junior School Orchestra
Northants County Junior Strings
Quarry Mount Dhol Group
Smithy Bridge Primary School Brass Band
St Elpheges School Infant Choir
St Mary's RC Primary School Upper Junior Choir
Strepitoso
Tatworth School Orchestra
The Abbey Junior School Key Stage 1 Choir
The Eagle
The Green School Steel Band (Group A)
TongueTwisters
Uke 'n' Play
Withycombe Stomp
Juniors, Adrian Boult Hall (Birmingham Conservatoire)
Age Limit: 13 Time Limit: 10 minutes
Session 1: 1100-1305
Session 2: 1405-1630
Session 3: 1640-1905
Carpenters Primary School Choir
Charlton Mackrell School Orchestra
Crestwood College, Eastleigh Year 8 Steel Band
Dragon School Big Band
Dulwich College Prep Big Band
Dulwich Hamlet Junior School Early Music Ensemble
Dulwich Hamlet Junior School Fusion Ensemble
Hart Sizzling Samba
Homefield Composers Ensemble
John Ball Primary School West African Drummers
Jordan Junior Stings
Littleborough Community Primary School Brass Band
Northants County Junior Strings
Old Stratford Primary School Brass
Peebles Recorder Group
Pinfold Drummers
Prendergast Community Junior School Orchestra
Rochdale Junior Big Band
Smash Jazzers
Spaldwick Egyptian Blues Band
St Andrew's Gamelan Club
St Francis School Windband
St James Primary School Brass Band
School Orchestras, Symphony Hall
Age Limit: 18 Time Limit: 15 minutes
Session: 1100-1615
Altrincham Grammar for Girls String Orchestra
Caerleon Comprehensive School Orchestra
Crompton House School Orchestra
Egglescliffe School Orchestra
Highgate School Chamber Orchestra
John Cleveland College Orchestra
Maidstone Grammar School Orchestra
Pate's Grammar School First Orchestra
Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School Senior Orchestra
The Latymer School Chamber Orchestra
Ysgol Greenhill Symphony Orchestra
String & Chamber Orchestras (Open), Symphony Hall
Age Limit: 21 Time Limit: 15 minutes
Session: 1630-1905
Berkshire Maestros Bracknell Music Centre Corelli String Orchestra
Greater Gwent Youth Strings
Kirklees Schools String Orchestra
MK Music Service String Orchestra
Worcestershire Youth Chamber Strings
Wrexham Schools String Ensemble
Ensembles, Adrian Boult Hall
(Birmingham Conservatoire)
Age Limit: 21 Time Limit: 12 minutes
Session 1: 1100-1520
Session 2: 1535-1925
Ensembles, Recital Hall
(Birmingham Conservatoire)
Age Limit: 21 Time Limit: 12 minutes
Session 1: 1045-1520
Session 2: 1535-1925
Anyone4Theatre? Collaboration
Bailey and Charlton
Belles Canto
Bents Green Special Sounds
Birmingham Schools' Brass Ensemble
bitesize2
Bradford Senior Percussion Ensemble
BYMT Forty Flutes!
Calderdale Youth Guitar Ensemble
Cardiff County & the Vale of Glamorgan Advanced Percussion Ensemble
City of Hull Youth Percussion Ensemble
Corinium Players Guitar Ensemble
Fourte Percussion Quartet Ripon Grammar School
Greater Gwent Modern Ensemble
Greater Gwent Schools Brass Ensemble
Greater Gwent Small Bottom Heavy
Hampshire Flute Choir
Hay Lane Percussion Band
HGS Percussion Ensemble
HVMC Community Choir and Almondbury Junior School Singers
Imagination
KMS "Colloquium" Kirklees Sax Ensemble
Luton Sixth Form College Brass Group
Luton Youth Wind Ensemble
Midlands Canzona
Newham Academy of Music Senior Recorder Ensemble
Nexus
No Strings Attached
Oldham Contemporary Music & Jazz Group
Oxfordshire County Youth Percussion Ensemble
Percussion School
Ratton School Vocal Ensemble
Sponnaissance
Stix
"Swingin' Strings"
The "Original" Woodwind Ensemble
The Blue Ribbons
The Good, the Bad and the Honley
The North Halifax Grammar School Percussion Ensemble
The Squad Guys
Vocalize
WM&AC Top Brass
Worthing Youth Wind Ensemble
Rock, Pop & Urban, O2 Academy
Age Limit: 21 Time Limit: 10 minutes
Session 1: 1230-1645
Session 2: 1730-2145
17 Nations
Absent Minded
Doyle & The Fourfathers
Gina and Katy
Groove Merchant
Guitar Stools and Cigarettes
Inconsiderate Parking
Jilambis
Kerplunk
Krieg - Brackley Rockschool
Oliver and the Rest
powersurge
Soul Patrol
Symmetry
The Macaulays
The Rebels of Rock
The Venue
Windswept and Interesting
School Wind Bands, Symphony Hall
Age Limit: 18 Time Limit: 12 minutes
Session: 1030-1245
Caerleon Comprehensive School Senior Wind Band
Leicester Grammar School Wind Band
Northampton School for Boys Symphonic Winds
Smithills School Senior Symphonic Wind Band
Springwood High School Concert Band
St John Fisher Catholic High School Concert Band
Music Centre Wind Bands, Symphony Hall
Age Limit: 19 Time Limit: 12 minutes
Session: 1345-1710
Blaenau Gwent Senior Wind Band
Harrogate & Skipton Area Schools' Concert Band
Horsham Youth Concert Band
Newbury Music Centre Concert Band
Oldham Youth Wind Band
Rochdale Concert Band
Torfaen Music Centre Senior Wind Band
WM&AC Festival Band
Open Wind Bands, Symphony Hall
Age Limit: 21 Time Limit: 15 minutes
Session: 1725-2000
Devon Youth Wind Orchestra
Gloucestershire Youth Wind Orchestra
Loughborough Endowed Schools Senior Concert Band
Northamptonshire County Youth Concert Band
Stockport Youth Wind Band
Worcestershire Youth Wind Orchestra
School Jazz, Adrian Boult Hall (Birmingham Conservatoire)
Age Limit: 18 Time Limit: 12 minutes
Session 1: 1030-1550
Session 2: 1605-2020
Altrincham Grammar School for Boys Swing Band
Bassment Jazz
Caerleon Comprehensive School Big Band
Cardinal Vaughan Big Band
Cleeve Jazz Orchestra
Crompton House School Swing Band
de Ferrers Jazz Orchestra
Egglescliffe Jazz
Junction 41
King Eddies Revival Big Band
NKS Jazz
Northampton School for Boys Big Band
Nottingham High School Big Band
Pate's Grammar School Senior Jazz Band
RGS Big Band
Ripon Grammar School Big Band
Sheppard's Pi
St Augustine's Jazz Orchestra
St. Aidan's Swing Band
The Minster Jazz Band
The North Halifax Grammar School Swing Band
WGSF Swing Foundation
Wootton Upper School Big Band
Junior Choirs, Symphony Hall
Age Limit: 13 Time Limit: 12 minutes
Session 1: 1030-1455
Session 2: 1510-1835
Air Balloon Hill Junior Choir
All Saints C.E. Junior School Chamber Choir
Christ The King RC School Choir
Coloma junior chamber choir
Junior QEGS
Kent College Choristers
Kidmore End Primary School Choir
Lindley Junior School Choir
Marchwiel Junior School
Montpelier Primary School Green Squad
Nidus Children's Choir
Northampton County Boys' Choir
Our Lady of Victories Years 5 and 6
Putney High School Choir - Cantamus
Shakespeare Primary School Choir
Smithy Bridge Primary School Choir
Spratton Hall School Boys' Choir
St Helen's Primary Choir
St Patrick's Catholic Primary Choir
St Swithun's Junior School Chamber Choir
The Abbey Junior School Upper Junior Choir
Warwickshire County Choristers
Westfields Junior School Choir
Senior Choirs, Town Hall
Age Limit: 21 Time Limit: 15 minutes
Session 1: 1030-1530
Session 2: 1545-2000
Bridgwater College Show Choir
Cantilena
Cantores
Canzonetta
Cleeve School Senior Choir
Coopers Coborn Gospel Choir
Cor Ieuenctid Mon Gwyl
Derby High School Chapel Choir
Dowdales Chamber Choir
Greater Gwent Youth Choir
Hampton School Gent's Choir
Huddersfield Young Singers
Ifield Community College Choir
Maria Fidelis Convent School Gospel Choir
Northants County Youth Choir
Sing@Selby Music Centre
Singers Limited
St. Aidan's Chamber Choir
St. Bonaventure's and St. Angela's 6th Form Gospel Choir
Stage 84 Senior Choir
The John Fisher school Chapel Choir
The Voice Squad Seniors
Thomas Telford School Choir
Twyford Gospel Choir
School Brass Bands, Symphony Hall
Age Limit: 18 Time Limit: 12 minutes
Session: 1030-1305
Bishop Stopford Brass Band
Egglescliffe School Brass Band
Fred Longworth High School Brass Band
Smithills School Senior Brass Band
Sponne School Brass Band
Tapton School Band
Wardle High School Brass Band
Music Centre Brass Bands, Symphony Hall
Age Limit: 19 Time Limit: 12 minutes
Session: 1405-1645
Aylesbury Music Centre Brass Band
Berkshire Maestros South Berkshire Youth Brass
Bolton Youth Brass Band
Rochdale Borough Youth Band
Wigan Youth Brass Band
Wirral Schools' Brass Band
Youth Brass 2000
Open Brass Bands, Symphony Hall
Age Limit: 21 Time Limit: 15 minutes
Session: 1700-2030
Bare Trees Community Band
Brass Tacks
Gloucestershire Youth Brass Band
Greater Gwent Youth Brass Band
Hampshire County Youth Band
Northamptonshire Youth Brass Band
Porthywaen Youth & Training Band
Shropshire Youth Brass Band
Traditional & International, Adrian Boult Hall (Birmingham Conservatoire)
Age Limit: 21 Time Limit: 10 minutes
Session 1: 1100-1520
Session 2: 1535-1925
Azaad Dhol Group
Coimriu
Fiddlesticks
Greater Gwent Big Beat
Hartlepool Percussion Group
Hornsey Steel Pans
Kagemusha Junior Taiko
Lady Manners School Folk Group
Leeds Silver Steel Sparrows
Oxford Youth Gamelan
Pimlico Academy Steel Band
Pure Steel
Ratton School World Music Group
Ripple Escola de Samba
Taal-Tarang
Taiko Rangers
That's all Folk!
The Northumbrian Ranters
The Yangchin Group
TLA Steel Band
Toble
Voyager Bhangra
Zingaresque 1
Junior Chamber, Recital Hall
(Birmingham Conservatoire)
Age Limit: 13 Time Limit: 10 minutes
Session: 1045-1250
Boston West Clarinet Quartet
COF
NLCS Junior School Cello Quartet
NLCS Piano Trio
St Swithun's Junior School Year 6 String Quartet
Sutton Junior Brass Ensemble
The "Original" Quintet No.3
Three Quarter Size
Senior Chamber, Recital Hall
(Birmingham Conservatoire)
Age Limit: 21 Time Limit: 12 minutes
Session 1: 1350-1700
Session 2: 1715-2025
2 + 1 Trio
Arnold Wind Quintet
Bayleaf Brass
Bromley Youth Music trust String Quartet
Cardinal Vaughan Senior Piano Trio
Fourtissimo
Greater Gwent Saxophone Quartet - Balanced Action
Newport Music Centre String Quartet
Sheffield Music School Viola and Clarinet Duo
Sutton Youth Brass Ensemble
Tapton Ten Piece
Taunton's College Brass Quintet
Tenforu
The "Original" Quintet No.1
The Asa Saxophone Quartet
The HBS Baroque Ensemble
The Junior Guildhall School Of Music and Drama Recorder Ensemble
The Sax Pistols
The Tallis Quartet
The Teesdale Saxtet
WM&AC Brass Farthings
Ysgol Greenhill Clarinet Quintet
Open Orchestras, Symphony Hall
Age Limit: 21 Time Limit: 20 minutes
Session 1: 1100-1335
Session 2: 1435-1745
Brighton Youth Orchestra
Bromley Youth Symphony Orchestra
Cornwall Youth Orchestra
Gloucestershire Youth Sinfonia
Greater Gwent Youth Orchestra
Kirklees Youth Symphony Orchestra
Lancashire Youth Symphony Orchestra
Leicester-Shire Schools Symphony Orchestra
Northamptonshire County Youth Orchestra
Oxfordshire Central Music School Sinfonia
Worcestershire Youth Orchestra
Music Centre Orchestras, Town Hall
Age Limit: 19 Time Limit: 20 minutes
Session: 1100-1435
Aylesbury Youth Orchestra
City of Hull Youth String Orchestra
Isca Linea Senior Strings
KMS Colne Valley Senior Strings
MK Youth Orchestra
Wirral Schools' Orchestra
Music Centre Jazz, CBSO Centre
Age Limit: 19 Time Limit: 12 minutes
Session: 1030-1530
Aylesbury Music Centre Dance Band
Brighton and Hove Youth Big Band
CAVMS Youth Jazz Orchestra
Dudley Performing Arts Big Band
Durham Youth Big Band
Jazz Vehicle
LYJO
Newport City Big Band
Norwich Students Jazz Orchestra
Nottingham Youth Jazz Orchestra
TV Big Band
Open Jazz, CBSO Centre
Age Limit: 21 Time Limit: 12 minutes
Session: 1545-1815
Doncaster Youth Jazz Orchestra
Greater Gwent Youth Jazz Orchestra
Merton Youth Jazz Orchestra
Northamptonshire County Youth Big Band
Oxfordshire Youth Big Band Combo
Sophisticats
Turnaround Trio