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An Isle of Wight church hosted a Balloon Festival, seeing the inside of the church turn into a balloon-filled jungle during the special event.
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Performing in All Saint’s Church, Ryde, on Saturday (March 5), the choir reached out in two directions for its first concert of the year.
YOUNGSTERS from across the Isle of Wight have proved their musical and dramatic prowess at a long-established annual festival, which went virtual this year. Competitors in the 2021 Isle of Wight Music, Dance and Drama festival had to film their music, speech and drama classes and submit them for adjudication - rather than perform live. Scroll through our gallery of photos above to see some of the many winners... Students from The Priory School of Our Lady of Walsingham regularly take part in the festival and this year was no exception. Remote practice sessions to help children with t...
Due to Covid restrictions the Isle of Wight Music, Dance and Drama Festival 2021 was held in a virtual format, but only for the music and speech and drama sections. For this, entrants recorded a video of their performance, which they then uploaded to a secure platform so the adjudicator could view them. Scroll through the gallery of pictures above to see all the performers mentioned in this story... Chris Hartley, one of the festival's trustees, said: "There has been a festival every year since 1924 — except for the war years — so we were determined to have something this year. "I...