Launch of Hurst Festival 2024
Hurst Festival runs from September 14 to 29 and the launch took place on Friday, September 13, at Danny House.
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00:00We wanted to bring the village together. This village has a fantastic community culture and we
00:05wanted to build on that. We wanted to offer entertainment at all prices and none to allow
00:13everybody the opportunity to take part in the festival. We wanted to use as much local talent
00:18as possible and wow there is so much talent in this village. Our concept was if you have an
00:24expensive event that should give us enough money to do events for either nothing or very cheaply
00:31for the people who couldn't afford it. Well here we are in our 20th year which to me is quite
00:37amazing and one of the premises of this 20th year we decided to bring back some of the festival
00:43favourites that we've had in the past and we've got Richard Durrant and we've got Tim Pope coming
00:49back the videographer who makes videos of pure and really avant-garde pop groups. We've got Hebrew
00:56Opera and the wonderful Woolwoo Jam. With Richard we've got a tour contour of Danny House. Acapella
01:05in Says Common Church so we're using Says Common a bit more and we've got a jazz band
01:10in the village hall there. It's an inclusive thing so you've got the Hearst Players,
01:15you've got the Hearst Cinema, you've got the Horticulture Society, you've got the Hearst
01:19Recording Society, you've got the other studios, you've got Hearst College, Hebrew Opera,
01:24Holder Trinity, the school and the June Club.