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

B-Fest at the Recreation Ground in Bures

CHORAL NIGHT

Date: Wednesday 9th July 2025

STOUR VALLEY SINGERS and British soprano JESSICA EDOM-CAREY

Venue: St Marys Church

 

Jazz at St Marys Church in Bures

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

 

Sunday at the Recreation Ground in Bures

FRIDAY NIGHT

Date: Friday 11th July 2025
Line-up:
WHEN RIVERS MEET
BRAVE RIVAL
MIM GREY (duo)
Venue: Recreation Ground – Big Top

Saturday at the Recreation Ground in Bures

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

Doctor and the Medics

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

Bures Music Festival returns 5th – 9th July

Preparations have been underway for some time, and organisers of the five-day, not-for-profit festival have begun announcing this year’s exciting line-up of superb headliners and amazing local acts. They’re also working on the packed schedule of additional acoustic...

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FOOD AND CATERING AT BMF 2022

As well as our Little Top bar, we have a fantastic array of food and drink stalls at the festival, most with vegetarian and/or vegan options including: Thursday to SundayYum Yum - burgers, fish, chips etc Friday to SundayChickpea Curry (vegan options)Wok n' Roll...

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Collecting your wristbands (and other information)

Important information about collecting your wristbands if you're joining us this year. Please note we do not send out physical tickets. If you bought tickets online you will be able to collect your wristbands at the gate. There may be wristbands for some events...

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2022 licensing, security and health & safety

Dear BMFers..To avoid disappointment and to make the gate entry run smoothly we’d like to clarify this year’s licensing, security and health & safety including IPC (infection prevention control) restrictions. We DO allow:       Folding chairs (Outside the tents...

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ELLES BAILEY for Friday

On FRIDAY 8th July, award winning Elles Bailey hits the stage before Animals and Friends. Having powered her way to the forefront of the British blues and roots scene through her creative energy and stunning live shows, her third album ‘Shining in the Half Light’...

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PAMOMINO KINGS

Acoustic stage regular Gavin Bowern returns to BMF with his Americana and alt-folk rock ‘n’ roll band Palomino Kings on Sunday 10th July. Featured on BBC Introducing, Palomino Kings are looking forward to bringing their rootsy rhythm section, dirty guitars,...

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ELO ON SUNDAY!

BMF 2022’s penultimate act, The ELO Encounter, returns to our stage with some of the finest musicians in the UK, to create the ultimate live tribute to Jeff Lynne’s Electric Light Orchestra.This unmissable show features soaring strings, striking vocal harmonies and...

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Sunday Madness!

On Sunday 10th July we close BMF 2022 with The Los Palmas 6 - unquestionably the best Madness tribute band in the world. Sax player Steve Turner played sax with Madness for eight years and recorded three albums with them.Both Lee Thompson and Woody from Madness have...

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2022 LINE-UP

THE full BMF 2022 line-up is here! Earlybird tickets are on sale until 1st July so get your tickets today here.

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New Purple Celebration of Prince

In 2015, they blew the roof off the BMF stage as Purple Rain.In 2022, this definitive Prince tribute act returns to BMF with the name New Purple Celebration, celebrating the music, life and legacy of the legend known as Prince in a non-stop, high-energy show. Prepare...

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FRIDAY HEADLINER ANNOUNCEMENT! One of the biggest ever bands to descend on Bures Music Festival is rhythm and blues act the Animals and Friends. This is an unmissable opportunity to see them perform on the BMF stage as part of their farewell tour on Friday 8th July....

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A Killer Saturday for BMF 2022!

Playing as far afield as the Dominican Republic and recently Mexico filling in for The Killers, the band have played to audiences of up to 30,000 people since forming in 2006. Having been lauded by The Killers themselves, they are coming to Bures to play back to back...

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