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Festival Organization
The Festival is organized and run by a volunteer Committee of local Brackley citizens. This Committee meets regularly, and new members are always welcome. Please use the link on the Contact page if you wish to contact the Committee.
Ticket Pricing Policy
It is the intention of the Brackley Music Festival Committee to provide a very high quality programme of musical entertainment while maintaining our historically remarkably low ticket price for every event.
If you glance at this year's programme, you will see that no event has a ticket price of more than £10 which, for a professional musical event, is considerably less than half that you would expect to pay to see the same performance in a theatre, an outing which would likely also include travel and parking costs. The average ticket price over the course of the 21 events on the calendar this year is less than £4.50.
Concessions
Our policy on concessionary tickets is very similar to box office arrangements for other, comparable local music festivals, in that they apply only to those under 15 years of age and not to senior citizens. The audience demographic of local music festivals is such that concessionary senior citizen pricing would very nearly double the face value of all tickets in order that the festival stayed on an even financial footing. We emphasize that even at full price these tickets represent extraordinary value for money and are considerably lower than the concessionary ticket prices you would expect to pay for the same event at a theatre. The concession for under 15s is intended to try to attract the next generation of audience (and performers) into the music community, a role which we feel is a vital part of a local music festival.
Festival Finances
The Festival makes little overall profit each year. Income from those shows where ticket sales show a profit is effectively used to subsidise events where contracting professional musicians, such as the orchestra and soloists for the Eddie Palmer concert, generally results in that show making an overall loss. The remaining profits are used to cover costs such as advertising, printing of brochures, programmes and tickets, hiring transport for schools taking part in the Schools Concert and so on. Any remaining profits are re-invested the following year. All costs are kept to a minimum in order to keep ticket prices low.
Public Meetings
The Festival Committee holds an open Annual General Meeting in the spring of each year. At this meeting, which is open to the public, the Festival is launched and the Accounts for the previous year reported.
Suggestions and other comments
The Festival Committee welcomes any comments and questions on the running of the Festival - contact us using the link provided on the Contact page. Please feel free to provide feedback on the Festival as a whole or on individual events. If you wish to suggest either a specific act or a type of entertainmentfor a future event, please feel free to do so and provide as much information as possible. Please bear in mind that we can't guarantee to take up any specific suggestions.
Link to the Festival Site
You are more than welcome to link to this site. You will find instructions on how to do this and graphical banners you can use on the Contact page.