Mansfield Music
and
Drama Festival
2025
Festival Dates 2025
Drama Festival
27th-29th March 2025
St Mark's Hall, Mansfield.
Music Festival
26th-27th April 2025
Crescent Centre, Mansfield
28th April 2025
Palace Theatre, Mansfield (Choirs Day)
Winners Concert
Sunday 11th May 2025
Palace Theatre, Mansfield
Closing Date for all entries will be:-
31st January 2025
Payment - Festival Entries
If you wish to pay by BACS please use the following
Mansfield Music & Drama Festival
Sort Code - 403201
Account Number 80559423
Please include Entrants name & class as reference
I am proud to introduce the syllabus for the Mansfield Music and Drama Festival which will be held in Spring 2024. If you are new to the Festival a very warm welcome to you, to previous entrants,
welcome back and thank you for your continuing support. Our syllabus is where you can find the detail about the classes within our festival; how to enter and about what the requirements are. If you
need any support we have a team of volunteers who make the festival possible and we will put you in touch with the relevant officer. Make sure you are organised and don’t miss our entries deadline Which is 31st January 2024.
T he Festival is only possible thanks to the continued and valued support of all our sponsors and patrons. The Festival is a registered charity and every contribution is vital to our continued success. If you, your business or family can help support the festival financially please get in touch with us.
We encourage you to enter as many classes as you can throughout the syllabus.
Don’t forget to join us at the Festival Concert which is held at the end of the festival and showcases highlights from the Festival. This year the concert will be Sunday 19th May 2024 at the Palace Theatre.
All that remains for me to say is good luck to all entrants in the Mansfield Music and Drama Festival 2024.
Paul Bacon, Chairman
2025 Adjudicators
This years adjudicators are
Music Festival adjudicator will be Luan Shaw
Principal Instrument: Clarinet
Music classes offered: Generalist, Brass, Chamber music, Orchestral, Recorder, Woodwind
Qualifications: PhD,MEd,MA,PgDip,BA(Hons),ABSM(P),ABSM(T),PgCLTHE,PgCRP,HonRBC
Memberships: SFHEA
This Adjudicator has Generalist status which means they are qualified to adjudicate all musical performance.
&
Drama Festival adjudicator will be Susan McKay
Speech and Drama
Speech and Drama classes offered: One Act Plays, Master Classes etc, Musical Theatre
Qualifications: ALAM,LLAM,LLAM(TD)
About
For 10 years, Susan ran The Fylde Stage School teaching levels of RAD and ISTD dance and LAMDA Speech and Drama before graduating from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
After seasons in Repertory Theatre, touring and T.V she decided that it was time to realise other dreams. She now directs Upstage Drama, teaching Speech and Drama, GCSE Drama, Upstage Young People's Theatre and Bare Boards Theatre Company.
Susan adjudicates at festivals all over the UK as well as Cork and Hong Kong. She is an adjudicator member of the British and International Federation of Festivals and has served as a deputy on the Adjudicators Council.
Susan sees her role as an adjudicator as a combination of bringing new ideas and approaches to text and performance as well as fresh encouragement to every participant. She feels that everyone should leave a festival with a sense of achievement.
