Music for Youth | Regional Festival

Sponsored by ABRSM

The world’s largest youth music festival takes place throughout February, March and April with entry opening from September each year with over 50,000 musicians and singers taking part. Regional Festivals provide a unique opportunity for groups to perform to new audiences, listen to other groups from their area and get valuable feedback from the team of MFY Music Mentors.

It’s free to get involved – enter online.
Travel subsidies are available to help with transport costs.
All groups need two or more members aged 21 and under.
All types of groups and styles are welcome.
Groups have 10 minutes to perform.
Spaces are given on a first-come, first-served basis and we'll only include your first three entries (dependent on space available) unless there is room to include your other groups.

Read More in the Regional Festival Bluffers Guide >

NB: Some spaces still available!
Please check the Regional Festival locations section below to see if a venue near you still has spaces available for you to perform.

If you can’t get to a Regional Festival you can still be involved by sending in a recording of your group.

You'll receive feedback from a Music Mentor and will have the opportunity to get involved in other parts of the MFY Season.

Recordings should be sent to MFY on CD or DVD by Monday 12 March. Please ensure recordings are clearly labelled and last no more than 10 minutes.

North East
& Yorkshire

Halifax - VENUE FULL
Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 March
Heath Training and Development Centre

Harrogate
Saturday 10 March
St Aidan's C of E High School

Huddersfield - VENUE FULL
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 March
Colne Valley Specialist Arts College

Hull
Friday 2 March - VENUE FULL
Saturday 3 March
Albemarle Music Centre

Leeds - VENUE FULL
Saturday 10 March
Garforth Academy

Peterlee - VENUE FULL
Saturday 24 March
Shotton Hall School

Sheffield - VENUE FULL
Friday 9 March
The Bannerdale Centre

Stockton-on-Tees
Saturday 25 February (RPU only) - VENUE FULL
Sunday 26 February
Egglescliffe School

Wakefield - VENUE FULL
Saturday 24 March
Outwood Grange Academy

Wales

Cardiff - VENUE FULL
Monday 2 April
Weston Studio, Wales Millennium Centre

Haverfordwest - VENUE FULL
Tuesday 27 March
Sir Thomas Picton School

Newport - VENUE FULL
Friday 9 & Saturday 10 March
Kingsway Centre

Wrexham
Saturday 24 March
Rhosnesni High School

East Anglia

Cambridge
Saturday 17 March
St Faith's School

King's Lynn - VENUE FULL
Sunday 25 March
Springwood High School

Norwich (Rock, Pop & Urban only) -
VENUE FULL
Saturday 17 March
The Waterfront

South East

Aldershot
Sunday 11 March
The Connaught School

Ashford
Sunday 25 March
Norton Knatchbull School

Burgess Hill
Saturday 17 March
Burgess Hill School for Girls

Portsmouth
Saturday 24 March
Admiral Lord Nelson School

Southampton
Saturday 17 March
Mountbatten School

Southampton
Monday 19 March
Friday 23 March
(Rock, Pop & Urban only) - VENUE FULL
Taunton's College

Surrey (see London, Croydon)

Scotland

Glasgow - VENUE FULL
Friday 17 February
Lourdes Secondary School

Inverness
Saturday 17 March
Culloden Academy

Perth - VENUE FULL
Sunday 25 March
Perth Concert Hall

Scottish Regional Festivals
are supported by Creative Scotland.

North West

Buxton - VENUE FULL
Sunday 4 March
St Thomas More Catholic School

Liverpool
Sunday 11 March
Formby High School

Rochdale - VENUE FULL
Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 March
Rochdale Town Hall

Rossendale - VENUE FULL
Sunday 11 March
Haslingden High School

Wardle - VENUE FULL
Saturday 24 March
Wardle High School

Warrington
Saturday 3 March
Great Sankey High School

Central
England

Aylesbury - VENUE FULL
Sunday 25 March
Aylesbury Music Centre

Bedford
Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 March
Wootton Upper School

Birmingham - VENUE FULL
Sunday 4 March
Birmingham Conservatoire
Supported by IMI plc Ltd.

Birmingham (Rock, Pop & Urban only) - VENUE FULL
Saturday 24 March
South Birmingham College

Boston
Sunday 11 March
Haven High Technology College

Dudley
Sunday 25 March
Netherton Arts Centre

Loughborough
Sunday 11 March
Loughborough Endowed Schools

Northampton - VENUE FULL
Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 March
Northampton School for Boys

Northampton - VENUE FULL
Saturday 10 March
Northampton School for Girls

Nottingham (see Loughborough)

Oxford - VENUE FULL
Friday 23 & Saturday 24 March
Oxfordshire Music Service at Bayards Hill School

Oxford - VENUE FULL
Saturday 24 March
Oxfordshire Music Service at St Gregory the Great School

Shrewsbury
Saturday 3 March
The Priory School

Stafford - VENUE FULL
Saturday 17 March
Rising Brook Centre, Stafford

London &
Around

High Wycombe - VENUE FULL
Wednesday 14 March
The Royal Grammar School

London, Rock, Pop & Urban
(Rock, Pop & Urban only) - VENUE FULL
Tuesday 13 March
Tuesday 27 March
Rich Mix
In partnership with the London
Institute of Contemporary Music Performance.

London, Camden - VENUE FULL
Friday 2 March
Cecil Sharp House

London, Croydon - VENUE FULL
Friday 9 March
Fairfield Halls, Arnhem Gallery

London, Enfield - VENUE FULL
Sunday 18 March
Enfield County Lower School

London, Havering - VENUE FULL
Friday 16 March
The Coopers' Company & Coborn School,
Upminster

London, Islington - VENUE FULL
Thursday 22 March
Union Chapel

London, Kensington & Chelsea - VENUE FULL
Saturday 10 March
Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School, Holland Park

London, Newham - VENUE FULL
Friday 24 February
Langdon School, East Ham

London, South Bank - VENUE FULL
Friday 16 & Saturday 17 March
Southbank Centre
Supported by The Coutts Charitable Trust.

Reading - VENUE FULL
Sunday 11 (PM only) & Monday 12 March
Reading Minster

London Regional Festivals
are supported by the Mayor of London.

South West

Bristol (Rock, Pop & Urban only)
VENUE FULL
Saturday 3 March
The Thunderbolt

Cheltenham
Saturday 3 & Sunday 4 March
Pates Grammar School

Exmouth
Sunday 18 March
Exmouth Community College
Supported by Pennon Group Plc

Taunton - VENUE FULL
Saturday 24 March
The Castle School

Trowbridge
Saturday 10 March
John of Gaunt School

Truro - VENUE FULL
Saturday 25 February
Truro Methodist Church