Dear friends We want to let you know the good news, AFYM will run in February 2022.   However, due to Covid, it will be run slightly differently, and we will have some classes online and a shorter face to face festival. In the online classes, performers will send in a video recording and adjudications will also be recorded. The online element of the festival will be released the end [...]

The AFYM committee is enormously indebted to those members who have served the Festival in previous years and are now stepping down, in particular Phyll Barclay, Colin Fielder, David and Diane Workman, Carl Johnson – and Rhian Workman who is on maternity leave this year.  We thank them for making the Festival such a success.  It is with great pleasure that we are able to introduce new members to the [...]

It is with great sadness that the AFYM committee announces the death of our AFYM secretary, Lilian Morgan. Lilian joined the committee of AFYM in the very early days, and worked tirelessly for over 20 years on behalf of the festival. For many of those years she produced, single-handedly, nearly all of the festival documentation, including the programme. Lilian knew AFYM as well as anyone and she was a calm [...]

After much deliberation and with great regret the AFYM committee has decided that it is not feasible to hold a festival and concert in 2021. Preparations for the festival such as booking venues and adjudicators would normally be made by now but due to the coronavirus pandemic it has not been possible to make definite plans or commitments. Even if the situation were to improve significantly soon it would be [...]