The Waterlooville Music Festival takes place at St George's Church during the second week of June each year. The Festival is now into its third year, and is firmly established as one of the leading cultural and musical events in East Hampshire.

The Festival has developed an excellent reputation for attracting performances of the very best local talent. Audiences will be impressed by the high standard that will be presented throughout the 2008 Festival season.

This year, the Waterlooville Music Festival starts off on the Saturday with Market Place Music, musical performances in various locations throughout the town centre, including in the church where there will be a performance by concert pianist Bohuslav Sosna. In the evening we have an orchestral concert when we welcome the Fareham and Gosport Youth Orchestra.

The ‘Scratch’ choir this year will be performing Music from Les Miserables and other great West End musicals, under the direction of Rod Starr, Musical Director of the Portsmouth Chorus. This will be a wonderfully entertaining evening.

Monday sees the return of Nadina String Quartet featuring The Making of a Violin. This promises to be an especially interesting and delightful event.

Tuesday evening brings the Havant Clarinet and Saxophone Choir to the Festival. The junior choir - HCSC2 - were a great success in 2006 and we are delighted to be welcoming the senior band to this year's programme. On the same evening HCSC are followed by the award winning A Choired Taste.

Two other highly renowned and long-established choirs feature on this year’s programme - on Wednesday we have Solent Male Voice Choir, and on Friday the Hampshire Police Male Voice Choir. Wednesday evening also brings the exciting African Caribbean and Negro Spiritual music of Africapella.

Thursday evening is a real treat with the return of Hampshire Guitar Orchestra who were such a hit at the 2006 Festival when they shared the evening concert. This year they are back for a full evening of entertaining music that will delight all tastes.

Meanwhile the lunchtimes and afternoons have a full schedule, with concerts from a variety of local schools, Jess Spurgeon presenting a Flute Recital, Sue Palmer with an Organ Workshop and recital, and Noah Africa Music drumming concert. Friday lunchtime features an organ recital by Stephen Binnington, Director of the Farrington Music School, Shaftesbury. Stephen has presented organ recitals at many well-known venues throughout the UK, and is also highly regarded as a conductor and composer. His repertoire will feature the rousing and famous J S Bach masterpiece Toccata & Fugue in D Minor. Afternoon events include a sing-along screening of The Sound of Music and a Tea Dance accompanied by traditional afternoon tea.

And once again we close the festival week with Last Night of the Proms. We will be recapturing the magic of the real event with flag waving and Land of Hope and Glory, but making this extra special is a guest appearance of Zoë Mace, a young classical singer and rising star. In a few years time when she’s really famous you can say you have seen her!