THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPONSES TO SUPER FLY.`

And Thank you for Supporting Woodbridge Summer Festival 2026

First dates

Winter Light Festival 2026

Festival Winter Dates
Friday 6 November - Leiston Lights On, The Long Shop. 4-8pm. Free Entry
Sunday 8 November - Fish Friendly Fireworks, Whisstocks Place and Tide Mill Projections, Woodbridge. 4-8pm. Free Entry
Thursday 26 November - Christmas Lights On Woodbridge, Shire Hall & Thoroughfare. 4-8pm
Friday 27 November - Christmas Lights On Woodbridge, Whisstocks Place and Tide Mill Projections, Woodbridge. 4-8pm. Free Entry.

THANK YOU FOR 2025

Thank you everyone who supported our events in 2025. Our events attracted audiences of over 10,000 people, while our media numbers reached over five million.

Our Super Fly project, started in 2018, is the first to uncover the role US Airforce bases played in bringing American black music into Britain. Super Fly 2025 saw Geno Washington (the soul star celebrated in Dexy Midnight Runner’s Number 1 hit ‘Geno’) bring Brit Soul home to Woodbridge. Geno started his career in 1965, while serving in the USAF’s Woodbridge base. Super Fly 2025 also hosted pioneering UK funk DJ Les Spaine. Les is a principle partner in Super Fly and was part of the project’s debut events in 2021.

We launched our Spin programme in June and are grateful for the support of national organisations and East Suffolk’s all party eco Councillors. The project reached hundreds of participants.

We brought our annual Carnival celebrations back to the Woodbridge Regatta on Sunday 29 June, with Nicky Don, of Rasta Yard and Ashanti sound systems, and an opening address by the Woodbridge Mayor.

We held our annual Fish Friendly Fireworks in November and, in just three months, our team created Felixtowe Loves, a game changing, place-making festival, which contributed a 23% upswing of day and overnight new visitors to the coastal town.

We held town-wide celebrations for the 450th anniversary of the Shire Hall in Woodbridge, followed by two days of events for the Christmas Lights On at the end of November - all working with Woodbridge Town Council.

And now we are continuing our Winter Lights Festival 2026. Thank you to everyone that’s supported us so far in our 15th year.

Woodbridge Festival
of art & music

Woodbridge Festival of ART & MUSIC is a community-run festival that showcases ambitious, diverse and quality International line-ups, encouraging diversity and local talent and allowing emerging artists to share a platform with established national and international acts.

Woodbridge Festival started in 2012 and is a not-for-profit, collaborative, community run festival with charitable aims. We present high quality, original artists to local audiences at accessible prices. We promote a creative community and encourage and support the local creative economy. We attract year round cultural visitors, involve thousands of people creating community artworks and reach a media audience of millions.

We run a year round education and outreach programme across Suffolk that receives glowing testimonials from participants. Our work in local schools is praised by Ofsted. We’re a creative industry partner with Suffolk New College and work with Suffolk Rural College, Farlingaye High School, all local primary schools and SEND and additional education providers across Suffolk. We deliver our art, music and eco educational programmes to these organisations for free. We’ve donated art and music equipment to six local primary schools.

Woodbridge Festival has hosted acts from Canada, Czechia, France, Ghana, Italy, Norway, USA and more. Highlights have included headliners such as Aswad, Jazzie B/ Soul II Soul, Orbital, Leee John (of Imagination/ Gorillaz), Mercury Prize jazz act Polar Bear, Coldcut, Mark Moore/ S Express, Horse Meat Disco DJs, Red Snapper, electronic pioneer David Vorhaus (White Noise) and UK hip hop pioneer Ty - to name a few. We’ve had themes, such as a focus on Scotland, Czech republic and France, Windrush Day 75, Woodbridge Ambient Music Event in 2016, Winter Light Festival (est. 2021), summer schools on the environment, Beatles book launches, Fish Friendly Fireworks, Rendlesham Incident UFO sculptures in the Library (2014) and turning the 700 year old Tide Mill into a techno instrument (2021).

The festival is inclusive, accessible and sustainable, fun and alternative. We have supported music in health, music for the elderly and a choir for Alzheimer patients. We take environmental responsibilities seriously - avoiding using generators, operating a leave no trace policy, encouraging train travel for artists and audiences and having a dedicated EcoZone and educational activities at festival events.

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Unmissable music & art in the heart of Woodbridge

As well as our annual flagship festival week and monthly music events, we hold annual Fish Friendly Fireworks and Projections for Peace -mass participation art projects projecting over 1000 contributions from the local residents, schoo;ls, colleges, professional artists and Woodbridge and Chelsea Arts Clubs onto the Tide Mill and other places in Suffolk.

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Activities, fun and ideas

Running a sustainable event is central to what we're trying to achieve and eco activities have always been a huge part of the festival. We've co-created exciting live and online activities and events, including 2025’s Spin project, our Incredible Oceans Live, Forest School and Eco Toy Workshops in Summer Schools, online, in school classes and dedicated eco days.

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Check in here for news from the festival’s year round programme of events

Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music’s annual flagship event takes place in Elmhurst Park and venues across town.

We also do live music and DJ events, art exhibitions, work shops led by practicing artists/ creatives, literature events and other activities in the region throughout the year.

Woodbridge Festival of Art and Music is not-for-profit and supports local culture, venues, education and community projects.

We're extremely grateful to The Co-Op national Community Fund, East Suffolk District Council ECB Fund, MSC, Scops, Arts Council England and the National Lottery funded Let's Create initiative, Woodbridge Town Council, Dedham Vale AONB/Suffolk Coast and Heaths' AONB's Sustainable Development Fund, Ipswich Borough Council, HM Government DLUHC Windrush Day Grant Scheme and UK Shared Prosperity Fund in East Suffolk, Suffolk County Council and the people of Woodbridge for generously supporting our mission to promote culture, creative participation and creative education in our area and to promote inclusivity and encourage sustainability and eco practices.