Croydon Performing
Arts Festival
Building Lifetime Memories
The Croydon Performing Arts Festival is open to all amateurs to perform in Western Music, South Asian Music, Dance, South Asian Dance and Speech and Drama. It is one of the largest performing-arts festivals in the country attracting more than 1000 performers each year.
Latest news
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On the 25th of May we will be holding our Gala Concert at Fairfield Halls.
This exciting event will showcase performances from all sections of the Festival. Our ticket sales are generated solely from our performers, so bring family and friends to support our performers!
We look forward to seeing you there supporting both the Festival in the community and giving encouragement to the talented performers in a variety of styles and disciplines.
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Gala Concert performers:
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Piano
Sophie McCrossen, Shravan Sriram
South Asian Music
Shriya Mistry (Sitar), Mayukhjit Chakraborty (Flute)
Speech and Drama
Seli Afriyeye, McKenna Harris, Sia Srivastava, Miguel Madu
Coleridge-Taylor Prize
Davinia Davis-Maxwell (Piano)
Vocal
Esme Roberts, Robert Wiggins, Jahnavi Kamal
Strings
Kit Ross (Violin), Jason Shek, Jack Ross and Alex Wang (String Trio)
Wind
Matilde Rahtz (Flute)
Ensembles
Featherstone High School Rock Band
SFY Second Strings conducted by Tim Wells
Dance
Aadhya Velan, Catherine Kurian
Manasvi Krishna Bodepudi, Niya Sajesh, Avanttika Sivakumar (Trio)
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Congratulations to our cash prize winners from the 2024 festival:
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Coleridge-Taylor Prize - Davinia Davis-Maxwell
Piano - Sophie McCrossen
Piano - Shravan Sriram
South Asian Music instrumental - Shriya Mistry
South Asian Music Vocal - Smriti Saraf
Vocal - Esme Roberts
Speech - Seli Afriyeye
Drama - McKenna Harris
South Asian Dance - Aadhya Velan
South Asian Dance - Catherine Kurian
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