It's back! The #WatfordFestival of #Music, #Speech and #Drama is back with an in-person Festival in 2022! An ideal opportunity for young people of all ages to showcase their talents in front of an adjudicator and audience! Get your entries in now!

Last few days before entries close for the #watfordfestival. An ideal opportunity to showcase young talent in the arts! #Watford #music #drama Pump House Theatre and Arts Centre Watersmeet

One more week for the start of #WatfordFestival Speech and Drama Pump House Theatre and Arts Centre. And preparations are underway! Looking forward to seeing all the performances live! #Watford #music #drama

We hope the participants, parents and well wishers enjoyed the Speech and Drama Festival which finished last weekend with the Finale. We got some great feedback from the adjudicators #watfordfestival #drama #speechanddrama

Well done all our competitors - and their parents and teachers - who are turning up despite the snow, and putting in amazing performances.

Guitar masterclass with our guitar adjudicator Stuart! Congratulations to our winner Aarav! #Winners #guitar #Watford #festival #music #first #cup #Masterclass

Who doesn’t love a great electric guitar performance? #guitar #electricguitar #watfordfestival

Some more of today’s wonderful winners and runners up... #music #winner #watford #musicfestival #strings

Something tells me their smiles will be around for a while after winning their classical strings classes today! #music #musicfestival #watford #watfordfestival #winner #prize #competition

What a great pair! And such an inspiring performance #duo #music #performance #smiles #hardwork #watfordfestival

Day 2 Strings is all about the cello! We can’t wait to see what the day has in store. 🎻🎻🎻🎼🎼🎼🏅🏅

Our winner from the D4 Violin Intermediate class yesterday, Eliza! A truly wonderful musical performance and one of our best dressed candidates of the day! 🥇🥇🥇#Music #violin #WINNER

First winners of day 2 Strings! First place 🥇 was a very excited 🏆Isis🏆, followed by 🥈 Oliver in second place. Nathaniel did brilliantly in🥉third in such a high standard class. Well done to everyone who took part.

We are delighted to have the children at Goodwyns school performing in our Recorder classes this morning. #school #music #recorder #performance #festival

Our brass posers! Fantastic brass performances to start our afternoon at St Margarets School in Bushey, Herts...

Two more delighted winners on the flute this afternoon #music #festival #watford #flute 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

Here’s Joe winning our EW2 class with Faure’s Sicilienne on the flute. Congratulations! #flute #festival #faure #WINNER🥇🥇🥇🥇

Super smiles from our fab brass players this afternoon in class EM3 #music #brass #festival

Elliot won our EW3 class with a beautiful rendition of Gymnopedie 1 by Satie and the traditional Mexican Hat Dance!

Can't believe watfordfestival.co.uk is more than half-way through: we've had some amazing performances - the time flies each session when watching them!