Sea Spots Ampified

An audience of all ages joined us for our Party Night event, warming up for the main Sea Fest free community event.

For the second year we provided an space to support  grassroots music, welcoming back Sea Fest favourite Samantics to continue his Sea Fest residency.

Thank you for everyone who supported the event, showing up to listen, dance, network, eat and drink at our beautiful spot by the Sea.

DJ Emma joined us warming up the crowd with her fusion of dance, disco, soul and house.

DJ SUV was back with more dance vibes, blending his unique sound with Drum and Bass, reggae, hip hop and more.

We welcomed the fantastic Bristol based Amy True, who headlined for us shaking things up with her powerful lyrics and eclectic fusion of hip hop, jazz and soul.

Sidmouth Sea Spot @Connaught shone a spotlight on grassroots musicians, bands and djs to have a spot and be spotted.

Showcasing multigenerational, culturally diverse and mixed genre musical talent and brining together a wonderful mixed age audience to support and sustain the music industry.

Through creating an industry pathway plus a new festival venue, in a beautiful spot by the sea.

Bringing together a supportive network to inspire, learn and collaborate to develop local music talent and enrich our grassroots base.

A learning and empowerment creative project focusing our local festival platform by the sea to become the nursery ground where talent spawns.

An opportunity to diversify the cultural offer in Sidmouth and East Devon, share knowledge, connect up and network together more effectively.

Check out our Sea Fest Highlight film that captures the full flavour…

We are proud to be making a difference through delivering our Sea Spot Aims

Involve and empower local new, emerging and developing musicians and djs from Sidmouth and the surrounding Devon area to take part and “get spotted”

Curate a programme putting emerging talent, young and older local people in the “spot” light

Network with other local live or electronic music promoters/venues/schools/educators to provide new music talent, learning and an annual calendar of performance spots

Provide access to work with production staff e.g. sound engineers and lighting specialists to improve quality of public performances

Offer opportunity to perform at a local music festival event May 2025 Sea Fest@Connaught

Establish a local “grassroots ecosystem” network i.e. festival/venue organisers/industry professionals and access to learning

Give access to and platform to young performers to practice through performance “sea spots” during our’s and other festivals

Connect with other venues to maximise opportunities for emerging talented musicians to gain more performance experience

Amplifying Grassroots Music

The power of collaboration through our Sea Spot network is through sharing, learning and supporting all of us in East Devon who are connected through shared purpose to support grassroots music.

Vibrations in the Valley by Tara Greifenberg is a colourful connected example of what happens when we work together.  Read about the artwork which was exhibited @Sidmouth Wallspace to kickstart our local music festival season.

Through Sea Spot, we invited and welcomed other festivals, venues, producers and music sector organisations to come together to establish a network to enrich what we each do collectively.

We surveyed our network partners and facilitated a learning workshop to explore the challenges and opportunities to work better together.

Read on to find out what we shared and learnt and how we will continue to create space to continue the network