We’d like to thank you all so much for making BMF 2025 our best yet!
2026 Earlybird Festival Passes available here.
See next year!
BMF 2025 Events
CHORAL NIGHT
Date: Wednesday 9th July 2025
STOUR VALLEY SINGERS and British soprano JESSICA EDOM-CAREY
Venue: St Marys Church
JAZZ NIGHT
Date: Thursday 10th July 2025
Line-up:
ART THEMEN ORGAN TRIO
with special guest Denny Ilett.
Venue: St Marys Church
B-FEST
Date: Thursday 10th July 2025
Showcase for young performers aged 9 to 19
Just a £1 donation for a ticket for all ages!
Venue: Recreation Ground – Big Top
FRIDAY NIGHT
Date: Friday 11th July 2025
Line-up:
WHEN RIVERS MEET
BRAVE RIVAL
MIM GREY (duo)
Venue: Recreation Ground – Big Top
SATURDAY
Date: Saturday 12th July 2025
Line-up: DAVID LIVE (Bowie tribute), GOOD TIMES (Chic tribute), THE DOWNSETTERS, WILSWOOD BUOYS, SLATER, THE CABIN BAND & THE WASHED UP FOLK BAND.
Venue: Recreation Ground – Big Top
SUNDAY
Date: Sunday 13th July 2025
Line-up: YOUNG ELTON (Elton John Tribute), THE COMMITTED, LIANNE KAYE, KOPY KATZ, SKA TOWN SYNDICATE & BEER VALLEY DRIFTERS.
Venue: Recreation Ground – Big Top
Festival News
Megastar to bring world-class blues to BMF Friday
Friday night at BMF just got very exciting indeed. How do we feel about having a Grammy-award winning artist in our midst? That’s right, we’re very, very happy to welcome blues musician Alvin Youngblood Hart and his band Muscle Theory to our festival. The likes of Bob...
All you need is love on Sunday
In the wake of sad news of George Martin, we’re honoured to announce our next band for BMF. There’s no greater and more fitting finale to BMF 2016 than the fabulous Counterfeit Beatles! The Counterfeit Beatles are huge in the UK and internationally. They’ve headlined...
Classic act returns for BMF Friday
We’re honoured and delighted to announce that the one and only, amazing and all-time favourite classic blues band Dr Feelgood is returning to headline our Friday night. From Canvey Island, Essex, Dr Feelgood have played at Bures Music Festival twice before, and we had...
Explosive headliner for BMF Saturday
Things are getting serious BMF friends. We’ve got a blinder of a headliner for Saturday and it’s just not possible to keep it to ourselves any longer… There are tribute acts and there are tribute triumphs. This band, ladies and gentlemen, is a triumph. Bootleg Blondie...
First 2016 band announcement!
Hello festivalers! 2016 is well and truly underway, and so is the planning for BMF 2016 🙂 It’s our 20th anniversary this year, so you know that means we’re doing everything we can to make it the best one yet. You wouldn’t believe what we’ve got happening, and we...
Line up for 2016 nearly complete!
We've been busy little bees booking the bands virtually since the day our 2015 festival ended and we've nearly completed the 2016 line up already! We can honestly say BMF20 going to be the biggest and best yet! There are only a couple of afternoon slots left, so if...
Small festival, BIG heart
BMF's biggest donation ever to local charities After celebrating its biggest and most successful year, Bures Music Festival is donating over £14,000 to local charities and organisations. St Helena Hospice in Colchester, the Dream Appeal for the Children’s Ward at...
BMF 2016 dates announced
BMF 2016: 6 to 10 July Have your 2016 diaries at the ready: Bures Music Festival has just announced its dates for next year. The five-day music festival will run from Wednesday 6 to Sunday 10 July 2016. And with 2016 being our 20th birthday, the festival will be in...
WEEKEND RUNNING ORDER AND TIMES
We have had literally hundreds of requests for the running order and times of the bands this Saturday and Sunday - so here you are! We can't wait! Obviously subject to change etc etc....
Tonight (Thursday 9th) is Jazznights AND B-Fest!
JAZZNIGHTS Tina May is a regular performer at top jazz and arts festivals and performs with the BBC Big Band. The award-winning Derek Nash is a long-term member of the Jools Holland Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, and has performed with Eric Clapton, Amy Winehouse, Sir...
Browse the BMF 2015 brochure
Check out the BMF brochure to get you in the mood for the week/weekend! Click on the images to enlarge.