Welcome to ​Penkhull Festival

Established in 1966, Penkhull Festival is a classical music and arts festival which takes place in Stoke-on-Trent each September. The festival's home is the historic Domesday village of Penkhull, surrounded by the rolling countryside of the Staffordshire moorlands.

Performers in recent years have included Voces8, Robert Thompson, Swansea Bach Choir, Jocelyn Freeman, Thomas Isherwood, Jonathan Fisher, Miriam Wakeling, Christopher Guild, and Equinox Saxophone Ensemble.

​We hope you enjoy exploring the website, and look forward to welcoming you to one of our events.

Penkhull Festival 2021 - a sneak peek

Thankfully, the fabulous artists we had lined up to perform in 2020 are able to join us in 2021 instead. Below you can find a few little clips to whet your appetite...
Equinox Saxophone Ensemble
National Youth Choir of Great Britain
Ben Parry, conductor
Penkhull Festival has enjoyed support from...

Festival President: Voces8

Creative Partners

Penkhull Festival is proud to be associated with Trent Art Gallery in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
Rob Pointon: Diagonal Rhythms, Middleport Pottery

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Voces8 Foundation
​Live From London Festival

'Live from London' is a new, paid-for online festival from the VOCES8 Foundation, featuring some of the world's finest vocal ensembles including VOCES8, I Fagiolini, Stile Antico, The Swingles, The Sixteen, Chanticleer and more.

You can buy a season ticket for all 10 concerts for just £80, by clicking on the button below*. For each season ticket sold, Penkhull Festival will receive a commission to raise vital funds. For full details, please visit the Voces8 Foundation website.
* 20 tickets are available initially, but don't worry, if they sell out, we will make more available.

Coronavirus update 2
28 May 2020

We hope that all of our supporters, friends, patrons and benefactors, and everyone in our wider community are keeping safe and well as we continue to live through this unprecedented time.

The festival's trustees have met, and it is with mixed feelings of disappointment and inevitability that we announce that, in line with other festivals across the sector, Penkhull Festival 2020 will be postponed until September 2021.

A message will shortly go out to all those signed up to our e-Newsletter. If you have friends who were planning to come to Penkhull this year, we would be most appreciative if you could help us spread the word.

Meanwhile, we would like to wish you all well for the weeks and months ahead.

Thank you for your continued support.

The Trustees of Penkhull Festival

News and messages

Coronavirus update 1 (April 2020)
​First of all, we hope that all of you, whoever and wherever you are, are safe and well during this time of international crisis.
Like other organisations across the festivals sector, we are dealing with unprecedented circumstances, and are closely monitoring news and advice from the government and public health authorities.
​We sincerely hope (and our working assumption is) that Penkhull Festival will go ahead as planned this year.
We will provide a further update of our plans at the end of May.

January 2020
A very happy new year to all festival-goers and followers! We are very happy to announce that some sneaky details of this year's programme have appeared on our website. We hope you enjoy perusing.

December 2019
​We are very pleased to announce that Tim Toft Violins of Stone (Staffs) will be supporting us as Concert Sponsors in 2020. If you're interested in sponsoring us, please visit our support page.