WELCOME TO THE HUDDERSFIELD MRS SUNDERLAND FESTIVAL 2025
WOW!!! A magnificent eleven days showcasing the best in Performing Arts disciplines with over 5000 performances. The photographs from HPIC are now in the gallery section. Click on The Festival 2025 for a report of the festival and the full set of results from the adjudicated classes. 2026 dates are there too!!! Look out for the 2026 festival launch with new classes and workshops planned - September 1 2025.


The EVENT
Huddersfield Mrs Sunderland Festival is one of the largest festivals in the country, attracting well over 5000 performers during its eleven day event in Huddersfield Town Hall with many hundreds more in audiences. Instrumental, vocal, choirs, musical theatre, spoken word classes for all ages and abilities are complemented by a series of workshops for adult singers, special needs schools, key stage two schools, music for the brain and toddler and baby workshops. The annual Young Musician of the Year competition is held during the festival, it is open to those aspiring to be professional musicians from all over the country and carries prizes of £1000, £500 and £300. Our Festival Dance showcase celebrates dance traditions practiced locally from around the world. New in 2025 is an adult disco. Audiences are welcome throughout the festival and there are a number of showcase concerts to enjoy; the culmination of a days singing at the adult choral workshop, a glimpse of some of the performances at the key stage two workshop, the festival dance evening, the youth choirs classes evening and the Last Night of the Festival Concert which showcases some of the best performances of the festival along with the adult choir final class and a performance by the successful Young Musician of the Year.