JUNE 2022

As we all emerged from the dark days of lockdown, we decided to organise the first ever Semley Music Festival. A small village with big ideas, Semley has always offered its community seasonal events to mark the passing of the year – from traditional summer fête to harvest supper in a barn; bonfire and fireworks to candlelit carol service. We’re lucky enough to have all the key components of a proper English village – a church, school, pub, village hall and community-run shop and café. And at the heart of it all, there’s a broad sweep of common land.

 

What better place for a festival? What better time than after a long period behind closed doors?

 

The idea was to celebrate together – our return to normality, the summer, village life – and offer musicians the opportunity of live performance after their long absence from the stage.

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“Semley Music Festival is small but perfect, a lovely eclectic mix of music and people. It’s so much fun I’d hate to miss it.”

Joanna Jacobs, stallholder