Due to Covid restrictions the Isle of Wight Music, Dance and Drama Festival 2021 was held in a virtual format, but only for the music and speech and drama sections. For this, entrants recorded a video of their performance, which they then uploaded to a secure platform so the adjudicator could view them.
Scroll through the gallery of pictures above to see all the performers mentioned in this story. Chris Hartley, one of the festival s trustees, said: There has been a festival every year since 1924 except for the war years so we were determined to have something this year. It has been a difficult year for the IW Music, Dance and Drama Festival, softened only by being honoured last June with The Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK.