About

Frome Festival is a community arts festival held annually every July in Frome, Somerset. Across a ten-day programme, the Festival hosts over 250 events, workshops and activities featuring a broad range of arts and culture in over 50 venues across the town, from concert halls and theatres to churches, pubs and parks.

The Festival’s mission is to celebrate Frome’s unique arts scene by providing accessible cultural events for over 16,000 attendees per year and championing our creative community by providing an annual platform for over 100 events delivered by local venues, artists and community groups.

The Festival engages over 100 local volunteers and partners with over 60 local companies as venues and event sponsors. Frome Festival has a proud tradition of maintaining accessible ticket pricing across its events – in 2024, 82 listed events were free or up to £5, ranging from family theatre and arts sessions to dance workshops and outdoor performances.

Youth participation is very important to the Festival, with performances, workshops and activities for all ages taking place across the programme. Through our connections with the Frome Learning Partnership, we ensured that either a physical or digital copy of the 2024 brochure was sent to all children at local schools. Frome Festival is a Family Arts Standards Holder.

We were delighted to receive positive feedback from our audiences following this year’s programme. Through our post-Festival evaluation form, 85.3% of respondents agreed that Frome Festival reflects the best of what Frome has to offer, 90.2% were happy with the range of events and 93.4% believed that ticket prices were generally cheap or reasonably priced.