Frome Festival 2015

Friday 3rd to Sunday 12th July 2015
various locations, Frome, Somerset, BA11 1BE , England MAP
from FREE to £20 depending on the event

Last updated: Tue 16th Jun 2015

The Frome Festival now in its 15th year takes place over ten days from Friday 3rd until Sunday 12th July 205.

The annual ten-day Frome Festival is Somerset's largest community festival, with more than 160 events held at various venues in and around the town.

Line-up

There's a host of activities and entertainment planned the music line-up includes Mr Scruff, Glenn Tilbrook, The Bad Detectives, The Sugarhill Gang, The Hoosiers, Foreign Affairs, Jackdaws Songbirds, Soul Sisters Sing Out!, Wyrd-O! Tales From The Absurdicon, Ghosts & Characters Of The West, Snowapple, The Three Corners, The Cedar, Katey Brooks, Ali George, Elise Yuill, My Social Orbit, Daygan Robin, Jane Taylor & The Bicycle Records Collective, Al O'kane, Jess Vincent, Alex Taylor, Flash Harry, R.O.E., Beth Porter, Septimus Wilkinson, Model Folk, Praying For The Rain, The Frukes, 0 Leonardo's Bicycle, A Feast Of Fusion, The Black Feathers, Appaloosas, Mosi Conde And Sam Crockatt, The Fb Pocket Orchestra + Frome Fm Festival 500, Nick Sorensen Quartet, Maurizio Minardi Trio, Ash Khandekhar, Frome Cellos, Cosi Fan Tutte, Duo Dorado, Magic Flutes, James Hodgson, and more.

There is also the annual food feast curtain-raiser, mysterious tunnelling, secret gardens, art at The Black Swan and Toolshed galleries, sculptors, open studios and bundles of fun for all the family.

Tickets

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Prices range from free to middling, with plenty in between.

Other events

The festival also offers dozens of walks, talks, and workshops which actively involve, not only the local community, but thousands of visitors to the town. Frome Festival offers more than 190 events over ten days.

Elsewhere there's art exhibitions, walks, workshops, Perennial favourites Hidden Gardens, Open Studios, Frome Green Fair, Art Car Boot Fair and the Festival Fashion Show, and many other curiosities.

Programming

The Frome Festival operates in a similar way to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, in that the ideas and promotions come from various external sources. For example, the Merlin Theatre and Rook Lane Arts organise their own programme of performances and exhibitions within the festival's remit. The Literature elements, the Home project, and the Theatre in the Villages are all largely self contained aspects to the festival. The Cheese and Grain Hall, hosts some events in festival week presented by commercial promoters, who pay a contribution to the festival's overheads. Many events are run by private individuals or organisations, often underwriting the financial risks themselves.

The festival features classical, jazz, folk, film, drama and literary events, as well as exhibitions throughout the town and surrounding area, drama productions, workshops, events for children and attracts performers from all over the world.

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