MIRIAM MARGOYLES AND AGGERS & TUFFERS AND PLASTIC MERMAIDS TO HEADLINE WIGHT PROMS

The Wight Proms Festival has announced its 2024 artiste line-up with Miriam Margolyes, Aggers & Tuffers and Plastic Mermaids to headline the event. The festival celebrates comedy, opera, drag, country music, sport, musical theatre, dance and classical proms, and takes place annually in August at Northwood House in Cowes. There will also be Musical Theatre Workshops for children ages 7-18, where they get to perform on the Main Stage at the ‘Wight at the Musicals’ show. The Wight Proms Festival will take place on 9th to 18th August 2024. Headliners announced include:

• Award-winning actress Miriam Margoyles OBE
• Island favourites Plastic Mermaids, who are performing with a live orchestra their only gig on the Isle of Wight this year
• Cricket legends Aggers & Tuffers a.k.a. Jonathan Agnew & Phil Tufnell

  

• Winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Danny Beard and fellow RuPaul star Scarlett Harlett, hosted by Tanya Hyde
• Anthems Ibiza Orchestra, featuring 1990s tunes from the likes of Fat Boy Slim, The Chemical Brothers, Faithless, Daft Punk, Ian Van Dahl, Prodigy and many more
• Musical Theatre Legends John Owen Jones, famous for playing the roles of Phantom (The Phantom of the Opera) and Jean Valjean (Les Mis) in both the West End and Broadway, Jenna Lee-James, who has just played the role of Elsa in Disney’s Frozen on the West End, and John Partridge, who has starred in many shows on the West End including Cats, Grease, Starlight Express, Cabaret and La Cage Aux Follesto
• Soprano Faryl Smith who shot to fame as a 12-year-old on Britain’s Got Talent in 2008, is now a graduate of the Opera Course at the Guildhall School in London
• Family favourite Peter and the Wolf with wind quintet
• The ‘World’s best Dolly tribute’ as endorsed by Dolly herself, also featuring Garth Brooks, Johnny Cash, Billie Jo Spears, Glen Campbell and Patsy Cline tributes

Tickets go on sale at 10am on Friday 10th May 2024: www.wightproms.co.uk.