Taking Part in Celebration

Monday 13 July – Friday 17 July 2026

Celebration is a vibrant annual festival held at Snape Maltings Concert Hall which showcases the diverse music being made by young people across Suffolk.

Each year Celebration brings together over 1,200 performers from schools and youth community groups form across the county. Each evening if different and audiences can expect to hear every kind of music imaginable – every genre, all ages, and abilities are welcome!
 

Key Dates:

Friday 9 January 2026 – Applications open 
Monday 9 February 2026 – Applications close

For any enquiries, please email the team celebration@brittenpearsarts.org

Celebration is kindly sponsored by James White Drinks.

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Small boy wearing a green sweatshirt singing and playing guitar.
Three young girls wearing colourful costumes and singing onstage.
Stage full of children wearing t-shirts in a range of colours and singing.
Man wearing a cap and hoodie playing drums with a group of schoolchildren.
Three older girls playing guitars onstage.
Boy wearing school uniform playing the violin.

Celebration 2024

Celebration 2023

Celebration 2022

Coming here today and seeing the reaction of the children when they first stood on the stage was fantastic. Celebration has been really special – from having their own dressing room to the fabulous band and singing with other schools.

Primary teacher

The Celebration evening was wonderfully organised, presenters spot on. I was so proud my son was part of this.

Parent and audience member

In 2017, for the 30 year anniversary of the event we commissioned a finale from award-winning composer, lyricist and vocalist Gwyneth Herbert. Her lyrical content came from the present and future, asking each performer to make three wishes: one for themselves, one for someone they love and one for the world.