Welcome to the Little Missenden Festival of Music and the Arts – still thriving in its 51st anniversary year.  The 51st Festival takes place from 8th to 17th October, 2010

The Little Missenden Festival has an unbroken tradition of high-quality music-making in a unique Buckinghamshire village setting. It has a very intimate and special feeling.

"England's best-kept secret festival" (composer David Matthews)

Most events take place in the ancient village church of St John the Baptist, a small Saxon-cum-Norman building enriched with 12th-17th century wall paintings, dominated by a famous St Christopher.  A concert here is a unique experience. This lovely building has a fine immediate acoustic, and music heard at this intimate range has real impact and presence. The small and unspoilt village is in beautiful Chiltern countryside – yet not far from London, just beyond Betjeman's Metroland.

The Festival features promising young talents as well as nationally and internationally famous artists and composers. The programme ranges from classic masterworks through less familiar (but not less intriguing) territory. It includes something for all – early, baroque, classical and contemporary music rub shoulders with jazz, folk music, art lectures, poetry and children's events.  Click here for a summary of the 2010 programme.

The 2010 Festival starts booking by post from 7th September (31st August for Friends of the Festival).  Telephone bookings start from 28th September only.  Click here for full booking information. 

We look forward to seeing you at some of our events.

It's with great sadness that we announce the deaths since last October of two central pillars of the Festival, Richard Drakeford and John Buston, whose loss will be greatly felt.  Click here for information about them, and about an appeal we're making to commemorate their great contributions.