Shine Festival 2025

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An inclusive choral festival at Middlesbrough Town Hall

We’re delighted that 2025 sees the return of the Shine Festival to Middlesbrough Town Hall. Shine Festival is an inclusive choral festival, providing an open stage and feedback for singing groups across the North East. Join us for an all day celebration of local music making!

This year’s Choir Festival will take place on Sunday 9th March 2025 and the Schools Festival will take place on Monday 10th March 2025.

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Choirs Festival: Sunday 9th March

The Shine Choirs Festival event is open to all singing groups from across the North East. We would love to see a wide variety of singing groups, of all genres and abilities, taking part in the festival!

Schedule

Across the day there will be 3 performance sessions featuring local choirs. The performance sessions will run as: 10.30am – 12 noon, 1pm – 2.30pm, and 3.30pm – 5pm.

FAQs

For further information about the day, please refer to our Choirs Festival FAQs document.

Sign up

All you need to do is complete the sign up form here: Shine Festival 2025 – Sign Up Form. Please get in touch if you need this in an alternative format.

The deadline for choirs to sign up is Friday 24th January 2025.

There is an entry fee of £30 per choir. After this we’ll assign each group to one of the three sessions across the day.

Audience tickets

Tickets will be release closer to the event.

Schools Festival: Monday 10th March

We’re providing an open stage and feedback for school ensembles across the Tees Valley area.

Performers will be given a slot in either the morning session, 10.30am-12noon, or afternoon session, 1.30pm-3pm.

FAQs

For further information about the day, please refer to our Schools Festival FAQs document.

Sign up

All you need to do is complete the sign up form here: Shine Festival 2025 – Sign Up Form. Please get in touch if you need this in an alternative format.

The deadline for groups signing up to the festival is 24th January 2025. After this we’ll assign each group to one of the performance sessions.

There is an entry fee of £15 per choir/group.

Audience tickets:

We’d love for the young people’s families to join us and watch the performances. Audience tickets will be arranged directly through your school closer to the event.

Enquiries

For enquiries, please email ben_helm@middlesbrough.gov.uk.