Announcement

Charity Raffle – Amazing Prizes!

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Each year Harpin’ By The Sea raises funds for Wishing Well Music, providing music for wellbeing in healthcare settings in the South of England. An important part of Wishing Well’s work involves music-making at the bedside of children in critical care, where recipients can be hospitalised for many months.

How to enter
Just click HERE or scan the QR code with your smart phone camera and you will be taken straight to our RallyUp page. The rest is self explanatory. You can check our stunning list of prizes and choose the amount you wish to sponsor. Your pool of entries increases incrementally the more you donate.  If you are attending HBTS 2024 in person, you can also purchase a good old-fashioned paper raffle ticket for cash and we will add your details to our online database ready for the draw.

The Draw
Our raffle is open to everyone – not just festival attendees. The draw will take place at The Brunswick on Sat 3rd Feb 2024 at 17:00h UK time (GMT). The lucky winners will automatically receive a confirmation email from RallyUp.com

Thank you to our international cast of sponsors
Harpin’ By The Sea would like to thank our event sponsors for their incredible generosity in providing the prizes for our online raffle. Money raised will help the Wishing Well Music charity provide bedside music therapy for children in critical care. For more information and discount codes, be sure to visit our Sponsors page.

Festival Lunch Menu

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Served Sat 3rd Feb at 1.00pm. Please pre-order at registration.

IMPORTANT
Attendees must pre-order and pay for lunch when they arrive for registration in the morning. Please inform a staff member if you suffer form any food allergies or intolerance. Menu

Choose one of the following for just £10.00…

• Chicken Katsu Curry with Rice
• Chili Con Carne with Rice
• Vegan Chili Con Carne with Rice (veg)
• Prawn Masala with Rice
• Mushroom Risotto with Goats Cheese (v) Continue reading

Harpin’ By The Sea On The Radio

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A huge thank you to all our artists, sponsors, attendees and crew for the fantastic return to our live format at this year’s festival. We enjoyed another sell-out event, welcomed Mark Hummel back to the UK for the first time in over twenty years, held our first Trade Expo, and raised £735 for our chosen charity, Wishing Well Music, providing bedside music therapy for children in critical care.

In addition, we launched our first ever Harmonicas for Health workshop and symposium, which proved to be a popular and humbling new feature to the event programme. Watch this space for news of HBTS 2024 and, in the meantime, visit our YouTube Channel to enjoy coverage of this year’s artists and activities. 

You may be aware that early on Friday morning this year our Festival Producer, Richard Taylor, was already launching proceedings in the company of BBC Radio Sussex reporter Hanna Neter. 

Hanna was challenged by Breakfast Show host Alison Fearns to learn and perform her first ever harmonica tune live on air. Richard and Hanna duly got to work and within half an hour Hanna was playing When The Saints Go Marching In! You can hear what everyone got up to right here…