Biddulph Music Festival could perform a reprise.
For more than 50 years, musicians from around the country flocked to the town each autumn to compete in various categories.
The festival, organised by Biddulph Male Voice Choir, was held at Biddulph High School.
Its 50th year was marked in 2014 but because it had become so large and with the amount of time it took to organise with a limited number of volunteers, the final festival was held in 2015.
However, it could be brought back to life in October, as outlined during a recent meeting of Biddulph Town Council.
Chief officer Sarah Haydon told the Town and Community Committee that a music festival in the autumn would be an offshoot of the annual Biddulph Festival held throughout July.
She said the town council had been approached by a Biddulph resident who was in a choir and she was “really positive” about bringing it back.
“This was something that existed a few years ago and it was hosted around different venues in the town. It was a competition so you could enter a choir, a quartet, or a solo performer, for instance. She is really keen to co-ordinate something similar again,” said Mrs Haydon.
Saturday, 4th October has been pencilled in for the music festival’s return.
Mrs Haydon added: “We need to seek some funding from somewhere to support those activities because various venues would be needed. I’d like to look for some grants that could support that and hopefully bring some music activities to the town in October.”
She said that from the start of October there would be a couple of weeks of “nice, intensive music projects” in the town.
The town council has already been talking to Moorlands community art group Outside Art about organising workshops as part of the festival that could help people try musical instruments for the first time.
Coun Jill Salt suggested that the festival could link in with the Biddulph Up In Arms music club, pointing out that Up In Arms received funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which has funded music events in the past.
Coun Wayne Rogers said the former Biddulph Music Festival used to be “very well attended” and that people came to it “from far and wide”.
“I went to a few of them and would like to see it get going again,” he said.
The “Chronicle’s” coverage of the 50th Biddulph Music festival in 2014 reported that someone had travelled from south Yorkshire to sing opera while another musician visited from Porthmadog, North Wales to sing in five competitions.
Nine choirs from around the county had also entered that year, which was double the usual number.
