Stage 4 Festival to return in 2018

The volunteer team behind Stage4Beverley has confirmed the festival will go ahead in 2018 and hopefully become a permanent fixture on Beverley’s calendar. Sell-out concerts on all three nights of the festival, which was held at the East Riding Theatre in Beverley across the weekend of February 17 to 19, plus healthy audiences at daytime concerts and workshops has given the team enough confidence to start planning for next year.

“We’ve been overwhelmed by the response and the comments we received,” said the festival’s artistic director Chris Wade. “There was a terrific atmosphere all weekend and I lost count of the number of times people asking about future festivals. Attendees completed survey forms which revealed an age-range of from 12 upwards, which is how we found ou that. 6 people had travelled more than 100 miles to see certain artists!”

Described as “Beverley’s winter music celebration” and featuring an eclectic range of music, from classical to jazz, folk, blues and Americana, the plan is to make the 2018 festival bigger and better. The dates, already confirmed, will see Stage4Beverley once again based at the East Riding Theatre from 16th - 18th February.

Roy Woodcock, Co-Director said " We are hoping that we will get even more support next year than we did this year. We couldn’t have put Stage 4 2017 on without the support of everyone at the theatre, the team of volunteers who worked hard all weekend to ensure things ran smoothly plus the financial backing from the Arts Council and the East Riding of Yorkshire Council, as well as sponsors large and small, such as cba Sadofskys, Beverley Building Society, Wold Top Brewery, P&O Ferries, and the Hull and East Yorkshire Hospitality Association and its members, Holiday Inn Express and Mercure Hotels.”