Welcome to the West Wight Arts Association

End of Season concert May 10th 2025

All members of West Wight Arts Association’s loyal and enthusiastic audience are warmly invited to the last concert in our highly successful 2024/2025 season which will be given on May 10th by seven recipients of the Bursary awarded by WWAA in 2024. Ages range from 13 to 18 and instruments to be played include Piano, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone, Drums, Flute and there will be one singer.

The concert, which should last about an hour and a quarter, will be followed by wine and cheese and an opportunity to socialise with the performers, WWAA trustees and members of the audience. We do not sell tickets for this occasion, but will be grateful for generous donations on the night to help cover the cost.

The concert starts at 7.00 in the Memorial Hall Freshwater.

Details of the 2025/6 season will be available. Season tickets will be on sale from May 12th, the week after the concert. Tickets for individual concerts will be on sale from August 18th from our website or Totland Parish Office 756028.

Steinway Grand Piano

The Steinway ‘B’ grand piano in the Memorial Hall, Freshwater, which belongs to West Wight Arts Association, is available for hire by arrangement with WWAA.

Please check the availability of the Memorial Hall with the administrator Debbie McAteer on memohall1960@gmail.com or 01983 752956 in the first instance and then email Richard Wilkins on wilkins.r@btinternet.com for further details.

West Wight Arts Association Bursary for young music students on the Island

Twelve young Island musicians have been awarded grants to further their musical studies by West Wight Arts Association.

The recipients range from 11 to 18 and played a wide variety of instruments or sang to a panel of WWAA trustees on Saturday February 24th. They also answered questions about their music making and what they would spend an award on; their answers ranged from help with funding further music lessons to better instruments or equipment.

The panel were treated to performances on piano, saxophone, drums, clarinet, oboe, violin, flute and voice from students from six different schools on the Island. The judges were deeply impressed by the standards achieved and the aspirations expressed by the musicians.

“ We had a wonderful response to our initial appeal for Island music students and it was very hard to shortlist applicants to start with. Then on the audition day it was very difficult to decide who our major award winners should be as the standard was so high, but we were able to give everyone something.”

— Pam Wedgwood - Organiser

“The concert was one of the best I have been to anywhere, the gut stringing added to their brilliant interpretation of the Mozart which was thrilling.”