The 47th Wycombe Arts Festival will take place from Saturday 30th April - Sunday 5th June 2011. It is focused in and around High Wycombe and Marlow in the South of Buckinghamshire within the Chiltern Hills and the Thames Valley.

Once again the festival offers a wide range of the arts, both amateur and professional.

Choral events are well represented and drama of all kinds from intimate story telling to Jesus Christ Superstar. Musically everything is offered from symphony concerts to traditional folk music to our regular cabaret style festival jazz, organ recitals and operatic arias.

There will be photographic and art exhibitions, open air Shakespeare, National Trust walks, story telling and talks on subjects of local interest and much, much more. Free lunchtime instrumental concerts will be held this year in a new venue, Union Baptist Church, Easton Street.

I am confident that you will find everts this year that will appeal to you and I trust you will enjoy.

The Wycombe Arts Festival would not be possible without the kind generosity of many local businesses and people. The sponsors this year include: Arts Council England; Wycombe District Council; Mrs R.A. Vere; The Eden Centre; Bucks New University; The National Trust; Sabeti; Simply Designs; St.Lawrence Church; The Red Lion, Bradenham; Union Baptist Church and Grant Thornton UK.LLA.

I look forward to meeting you at some of these events.

John Beaumont - Chairman