Looking forward to the 2025-2026 season!
Look out for an invite for schools to perform at the 2026 Junior Music Festival, 8th - 12th June 2026.
If by the end of November you have not recieved an email, please contact website@seesma.net
If you wish to take part and you haven't before, please contact us (after checking that you are in our area! See History of SEESMA page)
Nearly 2000 children from 61 schools performed at the 2025 Junior Music Festival, 9th - 13th June 2025 at the Cliffs Pavilion. Together, we raised over £6000 for the five charities: Little Havens, Goeorge's Windmills, RNLI, Essex and Herts Air Ambulance and Little Heroes ASD support. Parents thoroughly enjoyed the songs that were performed and there was a lot of joining in!
As usual, we had some wonderful school orchestras, bands and music makers, with our SEESMA band: Andrew Palmer and Terry Galley on piano, Steve Liberty and Tim Fletcher on guitar and welcoming George Rutherford on drums.
It was Terry's final performance with us as pianist, and we would like to thank him for all his playong over the years. Welcome to your retirement, Terry and plases stay on as Vice Chair!
Performances for the 2024 Junior Music Festival took place on 10th to 14th June at The Cliffs Pavilion, Southend. 1873 children took part from 62 schools. In addition to the school orchestras and our pianist Andrew Palmer, it was lovely to have our band: Steve Liberty, Tim Fletcher and Wayne Myall. Our audiences supported fice charities over the week: Essex and Herts Air Ambulance, Lifeboats, Havens Hospice, George's Windmills and Mushroom Theatre. Altogether over £6,586 was donated. Thank you to everyone who helped to support these worthy charities.
Performances for the 2023 Junior Music Festival took place at The Cliffs Pavilion, Southend during the week 12 - 16th June. We raised over £5,876 for the following charities:
Havens, RNLI, Mushroom Theatre Company, Essex and Herts Air Ambulance and Gold Geese.
54 schools, with 1776 children took part over the week!
A very successful Junior Music Festival took place in 2022, with 47 schools, with 1420 children taking part and making music together at the Cliffs Pavilion, Southend.
In total, over £4,265 was raised for the following charities:
Carli Lansley Foundation, Mushroom Theatre, RNLI, Eassex and Herts Air Ambulance and Ewan Lane Music Foundation.
