Somerton Music & Arts Festival

THE ROCKETMAN IS COMNG TO SOMERTON! THE THIRD MUSIC AT ST MICHAEL’S EVENT OF 2025 WILL BE No 1 ELTON TRIBUTE “ELTONESQUE” LIVE AT OUR BEAUTIFUL CHURCH…

The Somerton Music & Arts Festival will be back in Somerton this July, with an exciting line up of new events and festival staples taking place throughout the town.

The annual Arts Exhibition, which takes place at the Parish Rooms, showcases work from talented local artists across a range of creative disciplines. Running from 24th – 31st May, the exhibition is free to visit and many pieces are available to buy.

Many traditional festival events will be returning, including Martyn Smith’s famous history walk, the brain-teasing festival quiz, a talk on another fascinating topic of military history and the festival church service. The live music weekender returns too with music in Somerton’s pubs from the 3rd to 5th July. A feature of the weekender this year will be an open mic night at the Royal Oak.

New events have also been added to the schedule including a gin tasting with Stuart Avison at the Etsome Arms, where gin enthusiasts will be encouraged to sample gin as it was always meant to be taken, with dry ginger. The Somerton Dramatic Society will be making its festival debut with a comedy farce, and the Yeovil Concert Band will play traditional marches as well as selections from stage musicals, film scores and much more.

And we are bringing more music to our beautiful church in Somerton as part of the Music at St Michaels series of concerts.

Keep an eye on our Events page for further details and to buy tickets.

MUSIC AT St MICHAEL’S

We’ve now hosted several fantastic concerts at our beautiful church in Somerton featuring tributes to ABBA, Queen and Fleetwood Mac. They are becoming a very popular element of our Music & Arts Festival and we’ll be bringing more regular concerts to St Michael’s. The next will feature Eltonesque in May.

Coming up…

ELTONESQUE

The Rocket man will be descending on St Michael’s Church on 15th May in the form of Eltonesque – an outstanding Elton John tribute band.

Pete Gallagher, on piano and lead vocals, bears an uncanny resemblance to Elton John, not only in appearance and through his powerful vocals, buyt also in his outlandish costumes, and energetic performances.

Eltonesque perfectly recreates the Elton John experience, perfectly mimicking the Rocketman’s showmanship, fashion sense and style. Prepare to be taken on a nostalgic journey through Elton’s biggest hits!

The other members of the band are ome of the finest musicians in the UK who perfectly capture every nuance. With a drummer, piano and backing vocalist, lead guitarist and bass guitarist, they will bring every song to life.

The audience can expect a sparkling atmosphere featuring a selection music from Elton’s 50 chart-topping albums including Madman Across the Water, Caribou, Rock of the Westies, Blue Moves and Elton’s latest Regimental Sgt Zippo.

As usual, there will be a full bar in the church both before the show, and during the intervals.

Tickets will be on sale soon…. Advance £22 | On the door £24

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Previous events…

ABBA Revival

Somerton relived the magic of a live ABBA at St Michael’s Church with a concert spanning all the greatest hits.

This award winning ABBA Tribute Band ‘Revival’ has wowed audiences in the UK, Europe and the Middle East and can now add Somerton to the list.
Their show at St Michael’s includee faithful choreography, spectacular and authentic costumes, stunning production and, most importantly, excellent musicianship.
ABBA Revival took us on a musical journey back to those heady pop-tastic disco days when ABBA ruled the dance floor!

ABBA Revival were supported by South-African folk-pop artist Rowan Stuart, bridging the gap between reality and fantasy through the magic of music.

This event was sponsored by Perrys Recycling

The Bohemians

Queen came to St Michael’s Church on the 3rd October – well not the actual Queen, but as good as…

The Bohemians took a packed church audience on a high energy roller-coaster ride of a concert, featuring the back catalogue of one of the world’s most popular and iconic rock bands of all time!

Fleetwood Bac

When Fleetwood Bac hit town in July, they were a barn-storming success. Fans of the original band couldn’t help but get up and dance in the aisles to their favourite songs.

The acclaimed Fleetwood Mac tribute band gave a barn-storming performance at St Michael’s and All Angels Church in July. The band, who look and sound just like the real thing and play all the hits with uncanny accuracy, played to a full church and had an ecstatic audience dancing in the aisles.

Buy Your Tickets Now!

Tickets for the 2024 festival events are sale online now, and tickets will also be available to buy from our new ticket office at Stationery House in Somerton from 1st May. You can find out about all our fabulous Festival events on our Events page.

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SOMERSTOCK

Somerton’s iconic music festival Somerstock is part of the Somerton Music and Arts Festival. Somerstock 2024 rolled back into town on Friday 12th and Saturday 13th, filling the Recreation ground with summer vibes, music and dancing. A fantastic lineup of musicians played on Friday evening and all day on Saturday along with all the usual attractions, bars and street food to set the taste buds alight.

Plans are already taking shape for the next edition of Somerstock… Watch this space!

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Help to shape the Festival

Planning for the 2025 Somerton Music & Arts Festival is already underway.

Established in 1989 and run by a dedicated team of local volunteers, the festival has been a cultural highlight in Somerton for over 35 years. It’s objective, which has not changed since the event’s inception, is to make Somerton a great place to visit and live and staying true to its original mission, any surplus funds are reinvested into future events with several local charities and community projects benefitting from donations over the years.

As the festival continues to grow, we are keen to add more varied events to widen its appeal, especially to younger members of the community. We would love to hear what you would like to see included as part of festival week in July. Events can be anything within the fields of art, music, education or entertainment. More information on how you can get involved…

Or if you’d like to join our committee and have a real input into the organisation of the festival and it’s flagship Somerstock event, please let us know by emailing hello@somertonartsfestival.co.uk

Full Steam Ahead

The Festival Fortnight begins this year on 30th June with Cardiff Strings at St Michael’s Church. Events to follow include music nights at our local hostelries, talks and walks. It all culminates with Somerton’s own music festival, Somerstock. But before this, from the end of May into June there are pre festival events including craft and art workshops, live music from Twisted Vinyl at the Sports Club and the Art & Photography exhibition at the Parish Rooms.

There is so much local talent in our area. Visitors to the festival can see it all and even learn some new skills themselves, whether music, history, crafts or bees are your thing. There’s something going on to suit everyone at various locations around the town and many of the events are free.

We are a community event, and we couldn’t do any of it without the help of our sponsors and advertisers, and of course all our willing volunteers. If you’d like to join our merry team, please do get in touch.

We look forward to seeing you at some, or even all, of our events!

Cliff Bassett | Festival Committee Chairman

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