2008, the best Festival yet

March 28, 2008 – Nick Wells has managed the Bury St Edmunds Festival for eight years and, despite his long-standing tenure, believes that in 2008 he has created the best Festival yet. Read more...

March 21 – Festival fun on the farm
March 14 – Film band stars in Festival line-up
February 18 – Launch of the best Festival yet!

The complete Festival diary

Jonathan Lunn from Dance East

With one our of most varied and impressive line-ups yet, taking in some of the areas most respected venues, the Bury Festival spans 17 days of music, comedy, performance and culture. From the Jacques Loussier Trio to the Tallis Scholars make sure you don't miss a thing with our comprehensive diary!

Useful information

Festival venues map and contact details

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The Bandit Beatles who will be performing on May 24

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This year sample the formidable power of the award-winning Jazz Jamaica, dance the night away with The Magic of Abba and the Bandit Beatles, and back by popular demand Pete Long's big band and the stars West End's "Rat Pack Confidential" bring the 2008 Festival to a rapturous close!

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Acknowledgements

Thank you to our sponsors, advertisers, the staff at all the venues, the Box Office, the volunteers, the Blue Badge guides who lead the Festival walks, the stewards at all the events and the staff of the Tourist Information Centre, without whose help the Bury Festival would not be able to go ahead.

The Angel Hotel British Arts Festival Association Unitarian Trustees Ridgeons Builders Timbers & Merchants Cornhill Walk Shopping Centre Sheppard & Co. Chartered Surveyors Greene King Bury Free Press East Anglian Daily Times East Anglian Daily Times - Suffolk Orchestras Live PRS Foundation for New Music Youth Music Waitrose Trotter & Deane The Music Sales Group Balaams Music Barclays

Concerts in St Edmundsbury Cathedral are given by kind permission of the Dean and Chapter. The concerts in Trinity Methodist Church are given with the kind permission of Rev. Val Spencer and its congregation. Steinway pianos supplied and maintained by Andrew Giller.