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Read the full article in the online Romsey Advertiser, with accompanying photos, as Romsey votes for the next festival to take place in 2023.

Read the full article in the online Romsey Advertiser, with accompanying photos, as the 2021 Romsey Festival draws to a close.

Read the local paper’s report of events in the first half of the festival period, published in the online Romsey Advertiser,

Romsey Town’s Mayor Cllr Karen Dunleavey formally opened the 12th Romsey Festival last Friday evening. Read the Romsey Advertiser’s report, with photos, online.

Local Romsey man and member of Romsey Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society (RAODS), Matthew Ellison, interviews Festival Chair, Liz Wagner, on Outreach Radio about Romsey Festival. Listen to the interview below. You can hear Matthew and his team with Sunday Show Night every Sunday from 9-10pm.

Romsey residents can still look forward to the town’s festival this year. The 2021 Romsey Festival will open with a flag raising ceremony at the Abbey on Friday July 2, with a full programme of events running from the Saturday. Normally held every three years, this is the twelfth to be organised by an all-volunteer…

This article was first published in The Romsey Advertiser on Friday 18th June, and some of the events mentioned have now been cancelled or postponed. FESTIVAL lovers can now see what events will be held at a popular event this summer, organisers have revealed. The Romsey Festival committee announced in May the event will launch on…

Welcome to Test Valley’s biggest celebration of arts and culture! NOW EXTENDED INTO 2021 Test Valley Borough of Culture 2020 was planned to be a year long festival of events, led by and for the community, celebrating the people, places, heritage and culture of Test Valley. The original plan for a year long festival throughout…

Following their first ever online meeting the Romsey Festival Committee are pleased to announce dates for a Festival in 2021 to replace the event cancelled this year. Romsey Festival 2021 will launch at the Town Hall on Friday 2nd July and run through to Sunday 18th July 2021. All participants signed up for this year…

New musical groups and events are set to take part in Romsey Festival 2020. Following a recent meeting of potential participants, Romsey Festival has announced a wave of the latest groups to join the lineup. They include Three Rivers Community Rail Partnership, Romsey Modellers and Flautissimo. Three Rivers Rail Partnership is an off-road walking trail…

Romsey Festival will have a new flag for 2020. It has become a tradition that a Romsey Festival flag is flown on the Abbey tower flagpole during the Romsey Festival. After many years, the old flag has been retired and a new flag will be used during the festival in 2020. The flag was handed…

Countess announced as patron for Romsey Festival The Countess Mountbatten of Burma is set become the patron of the festival which will take place in July next year. The festival has a long standing history in the market town and has been held once every three years since 1984. Liz Wagner, Chair of Festival 2020,…