Thank you for all your lovely comments. If you have any feedback, good or grumpy, from this year, or suggestions for future events, please do share them with us through our contact page. Either way we want to hear from you! Meanwhile in other news…

HBTS2024 on your Telly
If you missed our Harmonica For Health Summit on Meridian TV News, you can catch up on ITVX here.

Charity Raffle
Congratulations to all our winners and commiserations if you didn’t strike it lucky this year. Either way we’re all winners in a very real sense, because we raised £1,300 to help provide bedside music care for children in hospital ICUs. That’s a huge jackpot for everyone. Thank you on behalf of Wishing Well Music, all our amazing sponsors and everyone on the HBTS Team. You’re amazing!

Thankyous
Where to begin? The cast list and credits are endless. Basically, if you were there, everything you did made the event worthwhile and a big success, no matter how big or small your involvement. And if you weren’t there, you count too! I’m thinking in particular of our event sponsors, without whom it would be impossible to underwrite everything. All our guest artists have said how much they felt our love and what an incredible group we have at HBTS.

I’d like to pay a special tribute to Matt our sound engineer, our two venue teams at the The Brunswick and The Cornerstone, everyone behind Harmonicas for Health, everyone behind our open mic party, our tutorial workshops, John and Gene for our Tech workshop, Vanessa and Louise for our inaugural Sing Workshop, and of course all our lovely electric Blues Jam friends. Also everyone on our HarmonicaUK and Charity information desks.

YouTube
And always last, but never least, a resounding peal of applause for Russ Turner on our video cameras. Keep an eye on our YouTube Channel and Russ’s Oxharp channel for footage of his year’s event – and please share any favourite items with all your social media friends!

HBTS2025
Collapsing into bed on Saturday night that weary voice was once again heard groaning in the dark, ‘never again!’. And back came the same reply, ‘you always say that’. Thank you to my incredibly patient and lovely wife for her calming support behind the scenes. And thank you to Mattias Bogefors, our Swedish house guest, for his healing hands and karma. I’m off to Australia for a couple of weeks to find some sunshine, stare at a Koala or two, and dribble down my chin. We’ll let you know about HBTS2025 once we’re the right way up again.

Thank you for joining us this year, keep tooting and… tell all your friends!

Richard x

 

 

 

 

 

Big thanks go to Steve Lee and our friends at Prontaprint Brighton for production of this year’s official programme.

You can download a virtual copy by clicking here or on the cover image shown. Your own souvenir copy will be provided when you check in on Saturday 3rd February at The Cornerstone (Beginners) or The Brunswick (Intermediates/Advanced).

Our weekend’s schedule forms the centre spread, so you can always check here to track the programme. Inside the back cover you will find details of our charity raffle and the work that Wishing Well Music does for children in ICT units. There are also pages featuring our guest artists, event team and sponsors.

 

Brighten someone else’s day.

His and her t-shirts in a choice of colours, all with our fabulous harp target logo. Black hoodies too! Available now at Battle Plan Harmonicas. All profit goes to Wishing Well Music providing bedside music therapy for children in critical care.

Harpin’ By The Sea – we’ve always been more than just blues.

Log in. Order one. Make a child smile.

 

Our workshop plus two show ticket allocations (couples package) are sold out. We have just one workshop plus one show ticket package left (singles package), so you will have to move fast!

We can say with certainty there won’t be any show tickets left for general release in January. A huge thank you to everyone who has signed up for HBTS 2024. If you haven’t yet committed, please don’t leave it too late!

Just click the poster (and don’t forget to tell all your friends!)

Missed the party or just need another hit?
You can catch up as we roll out footage of Harpin’ By The Sea 2021 on YouTube.

Please note this process is engineered voluntarily. Thank you for your patience as it takes shape.

You can check everything out at Harpin’ By The Sea’s own Channel and at Russ Turner’s Oxharp Channel.