Category: Old News

The 2018 Festival Concert was held on Saturday, 1st December at 7pm in the Devizes Town Hall Assembly Room.

The Wiltshire Young Musician Competition was won by Matthew Powell, who played the 1st movement of the Hummel Trumpet Concerto. Second was Madeleine Longbotham (flute) and third was Eliza Munday (violin).

Congratulations to them and to all competitors and performers.

For more details, see the Young Musician page

Class results will be posted on the display boards upstairs in the Town Hall within about an hour of the end of each class, and can be downloaded from this website too. (Information page > Downloads (right side bar))

The Eisteddfod Programme containing names of competitors and locations, dates and times of all classes is now available from Winkworths in Devizes Market Place (SN10 1HT) or at all venues on the day, price £2.

The 2018 Syllabus, which contains details of all the Eisteddfod classes, is now out.

The Syllabus and the Entry Forms can be collected from Winkworth offices, Market Place, Devizes, SN10 1HT or downloaded from the Information Page here.

The Eisteddfod announces the third Young Musician of Wiltshire (YMW) and Wiltshire Choir of the Year (WCY) competitions which in 2018 will be held during the November Eisteddfod.

Please see the relevant pages on this website for more information. The Young Musician Competition is by invitation only. Choirs intending to enter Wiltshire Choir of the Year will be able to do so from late-April 2018 once the 2018 Eisteddfod Syllabus is published and available from this site.

The Music, Speech and Drama classes for the 2018 Devizes Eisteddfod will take place on 15th, 16th and 17th November 2018.

The Dance classes will take place on 24th and 25th November 2018.

Please see the Information page for details.

The Director and Committee of the Eisteddfod would like to thank all those performers who gave us such an exhilarating concert in the Town Hall Assembly Room on 25 November to wrap-up this year’s highly successful Eisteddfod. We look forward to seeing you all again in November 2018 for what should be our largest Eisteddfod ever.

On behalf of the Eisteddfod Committee I would like to thank all the many performers for taking part in last weekend’s highly successful Eisteddfod. We heard and saw some wonderful performances from young people of all ages, culminating on Sunday evening with an outstanding class of Cabaret Group dancing at Lavington School. Thank you also to the teachers of the many talented students who took part and the hundreds of parents who were present at the six venues used for this year’s event. We look forward to seeing you all again in November 2018 !

Michael Johnson, Director

The closing date for entries to the 2017 Eisteddfod has now passed so no more entries will be accepted. Competitor Entry Cards, confirming your entry and the time and venue of your class, will be sent to the competitors by the end of October.

Please note that there have been some recent venue changes, the main one being that the Strings classes will now be held in St James’ Church (SN10 3AA). Please see the Information Page for details.