The tenth annual Saffron Walden Music Festival held at Saffron Hall, sponsored by our members, attracted over 200 youngsters from around the area. It gave them an opportunity to showcase their abilities from the very beginning of their musical journey to high skills levels in all disciplines from percussion, piano, brass, woodwind, guitar, string and vocal plus an innovation in the Festival, a jazz section.
The judges were leading professionals in their individual disciplines ‘It was fantastic to hear all the children giving it a go. I was really impressed with the very young ones; some real talent there’ said one. The festival concluded with winners of each section performing a Finale Concert from which an overall winner was decided; this was the violinist Sakura Fish from the Perse School, Cambridge.