Visitors to Tetbury during the 2024 Festival last year will have noticed a new music festival initiative in the town in the form of a musical  ‘Best Dressed Window Competition’ which ran concurrently with the festival.  Inspired by  the success of  London's ‘Chelsea in Bloom’, where businesses in Chelsea decorate their shop fronts with flowers to support the Chelsea Flower Show and end up being destinations in their own right, we invited local businesses to decorate their windows with a musical theme.   

 

There was a wonderfully supportive and enthusiastic response with two dozen Tetbury shops taking part, see the photos of the participating shops and businesses below.  They transformed the centre of Tetbury into a vibrant musical space that showcased all the fabulous independent shops but also raised the festival profile locally, and the free tickets we offer school children for our concerts!  

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Thanks to a generous sponsor, who gave a sum of money for each participating shop, we also raised £600 for St Mary’s Primary School in Tetbury to enhance their music provision.  

 

A special salute goes to Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, the TV celebrity, interior designer and music lover, who came to Tetbury to judge the windows; his generosity and support was the absolute booster rocket on this venture, thank you Laurence!  ​

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