For your information we are pleased to provide details of other festivals and performing arts organisations that operate near to Mayfield.
Battle Festival
Battle Festival is an arts and music festival held in Battle, East Sussex during July each year. The Festival programmes a wide range of events by internationally acclaimed artists, featuring concerts, opera, theatre, art exhibitions, cinema, author talks and local history. The festival also includes the famous Battle Scarecrow Festival.
The events take place in the many historical venues across the town including Battle Abbey, the site of the Battle of Hastings and its grounds. Alongside the main programme, there is an extensive range of fringe events such as workshops, talks and demonstrations.
Brighton Early Music Festival
Formed in 2002, Brighton Early Music Festival (known as BREMF) is the south of England’s largest festival of music written before 1800. The Festival has built a reputation for lively and inspired programming, often exploring connections with different art forms and using performance formats and spaces that challenge preconceptions of early music.
The majority of BREMF’s events take place as part of an annual festival in October/November, but increasingly the Festival also organises events at other times of year such as an outdoor Midsummer season and Christmas concerts. Outside of the festival BREMF runs three choirs, organises participatory workshops and takes live music into Sussex schools.
Cuckfield Music Festival
An 8-day Festival held annually in June, Cuckfield Music Festival brings a wide range of performances to Mid Sussex including classical, jazz, modern, choral, ensembles, solo instrumentalists and vocalists. One of the key aims is to provide performance opportunities for young musicians from schools and colleges (both local and National). For the latest information and to sign up to the regular newsletter please visit our website.
Elderflower Fields
We provide a fantastic wild weekend of music, sport, art, performance and non-stop festival fun at the countryside setting of Pippingford Park in the Ashdown Forest. Designed especially for families with younger children, Elderflower Fields provides plenty of space to camp under the stars for an unforgettable wild adventure. The award winning Elderflower Fields adventure offers some of the finest local artisan food and drink whilst showcasing a spectacular line-up of performers from Sussex and beyond. Partnering with a host of experts in sports, arts and nature, families are invited to try new things together in a safe and nurturing environment.
Hurstpierpoint
Hurstpierpoint Festival delivers over 80 distinct events over 2 weeks in September attracting an estimated audience of 3,500 individuals drawn from every element of our diverse communities. The reputation of this registered charity is impressive, and its reach extends to many of the neighbouring towns and villages of mid-Sussex and the nearby coast.
We engage the entire community from performers and artists to suppliers, schools, venues and local organisations and the Festival Team is excited to be the purveyors of great moments of celebration bringing the whole community together.
Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival
Established in 1998 by the Florestan Trio, and continued today under the artistic direction of violinist Anthony Marwood and cellist Richard Lester, the Peasmarsh Chamber Music Festival is a cherished annual fixture in the culture calendar of East Sussex. Each year we welcome stellar artists from around the world to collaborate in performances of chamber works both familiar and less well known in churches in Peasmarsh and Rye. We are also delighted to partner with five local primary schools for a programme of educational workshops and performances, introducing the next generation to the magic of chamber music. Please come and join us! The festival programme and brochure is available online.
Royal Tunbridge Wells Symphony Orchestra
The RTWSO’s 2025/26 season is packed with energy, brilliance and imagination, led by new Music Director Peter Selwyn. It opens in celebration with Wagner, Saint-Saëns and Berlioz, with acclaimed local violinist Callum Smart. Throughout the season, audiences will enjoy Beethoven’s majestic “Emperor” concerto with the brilliant Tom Poster, fairy-tale magic from Mendelssohn to Rimsky-Korsakov, and the soulful warmth of Tchaikovsky’s Winter Daydreams. Distinguished soloists join the orchestra, including celebrated cellist Richard Harwood in Kabalevsky’s concerto and the award-winning Fenella Humphreys in Coleridge-Taylor’s Violin Concerto. English masterpieces by Vaughan Williams and Walton challenge the notion of a “Land without music,” before Gershwin, Ravel and Mussorgsky bring the season to a dazzling finale.
