Suffolk – The festival capital of Britain

Choose Suffolk, together with arts and heritage organisations have joined forces to launch Festivals Suffolk, a national campaign to position Suffolk as the festival capital of the UK and to attract new domestic and international audiences to events and festivals taking place throughout the county.

The campaign promotes Suffolk as a festivals county and this is demonstrated by the quality and range of events which include:

- High Tide Festival (29 April-3 May) - hightide.org.uk/
- Bury St Edmunds Festival (14-30 May) - buryfestival.co.uk/
- Pulse Festival (27 May- 12 June) - pulsefringe.com/
- Aldeburgh Festival (1 June- 27 June) - aldeburgh.co.uk/
- Ip Art Festival (26 June- 12 July) - ip-art.com/
- The Newmarket Festival (3-11 July) - newmarketracecourses.co.uk
- Latitude (16-18 July) - latitudefestival.co.uk/home/
- Harvest at Jimmy’s (11-12 September) - harvestatjimmys.com/
- The Aldeburgh Poetry Festival- (early November) - thepoetrytrust.org

A website, festivalsuffolk.com, which has gone live today, contains full festival and events listings and a virtual ticket shop with links to the relevant booking pages on partner sites, as well as relevant local information for visitors.

The campaign will be launched at a media event on 30th April at The New Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, which coincides with High Tide Festival and featuring a premiere of ‘Ditch’, a play by Beth Steel.

Hills Balfour has been appointed as the PR consultancy to represent Festivals Suffolk and to coordinate media visits to the county to showcase its arts and cultural offerings and to position it as the leading county for high quality heritage & arts festivals

For further information on Suffolk go to: choosesuffolk.com