Welcome to the 2012 Festival

We have a variety of events to entertain you this year as you will see as you visit different pages on this site. The Festival proper starts with a talk by the well known cricketer Allan Lamb, in conversation with Brian Viner. Then, via our usual coach trip (this year to Ragley Hall), we will have the opportunity to hear John Craig Innes, "the People’s Tenor", so called from his joy of performing in the streets to entertain the public.

By popular demand, we welcome back The Dutch Lewis Broadband and The Temperance Seven, before seeing our old friends the Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra, who have been appearing in the Festival since its inception in 1980. Also under our umbrella is the event to round off the Festival, a lecture by Roger Nichols on Debussy in lovely St Andrew's Church in Leinthall Earls.

We are also pleased to be able to support other local activities, a concert by The Birchpole Singers and the annual Charity Music Bash run by the Barons Cross Inn.

Although this is the last Leominster Festival in its current format until more like-minded people can be found to form a new committee, we hope you will feel able to support us ths year, and we look forward to welcoming you.

Donald Millar
Chairman

Leominster Festival 2012 is dedicated to the memory of Chris Sansom.
An indefatigable founder member of Leominster Festival, who sadly died in November 2011.