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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The 2026 CPAF festival dates and adjudicators are now available on our "Events" page!
On behalf of all of us at Croydon Performing Arts Festival, we would like to thank all participants who performed at the 2025 festival.
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We would also like to congratulate the performers nominated by our adjudicators for our 2025 cash prizes.
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South Asian Music
Hrishikesh Tumuluri - Vocal
Abhiram Gandluri – Violin
Isha Visvanathan - Percussion - Mridangam
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Speech
Sahana Rameswaren
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Drama
Riccardo Keane
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Piano
Olivia Edwards
Arissa Vaziri
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South Asian Dance
Advika Kukunoor
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Strings
Rafferty Gayle
Eleanor Dang
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Harp
Selin Serez
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Coleridge-Taylor
Davinia Davis-Maxwell
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Choir
The Downsmen
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Ensemble
Featherstone High School Rock Band​​​​​​​​​​​
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A note from our Chair, Richard Deering
If you have appreciated the work put into this festival and you realise the enormous help that the festival has given to develop the self-esteem and self-respect, especially for the young performers, and would like to offer help - either-year-round or at the event - so that we may make it possible to hold a similar event in 2026, please contact us! On behalf of the Trustees, thank you for your continued interest and support.
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Entries for our Western Dance section are now closed. We are looking forward to welcoming the participants in May! Please find the Timetable of events on our "Dance AED" page.
