Wight Proms Festival 2025

Giovanni Pernice, Fascinating Aida, Wynne Evans and
Lee Mead to Headline the Wight Proms Festival 2025

The Wight Proms Festival has just announced its 2025 artiste line-up

Tickets go on sale this Friday 4th April

This year for the first time ever, all tickets will be sold exclusively through ‘The Price Is Wight’

The boutique open-air 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

Headliners announced:
◦ Strictly Come Dancing legend GIOVANNI PERNICE
◦ Britain’s greatest comedy trio, fresh off the back of their sell-out 40th anniversary tour
FASCINATING AIDA
◦ Winner of Celebrity Masterchef and Mr Go-Compare himself WYNNE EVANS
◦ Wynne will be joined by Special Guest G4’s MIKE CHRISTIE, who is the founder of the
Wight Proms Festival, and will be singing ‘Walk the Wight With You’ with full
orchestra; the song he has written to celebrate the 35th anniversary of Walk the Wight
this year
◦ Musical theatre legend LEE MEAD who won BBC1’s Any Dream Will Do, and has
countless West End credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat,
Miss Saigon, Wicked, Chicago, We Will Rock You and Sister Act to name but a few
◦ Lee will be joined by leading lady KELLY MATHIESON as his Special Guest, who has
starred in numerous West End shows including The Phantom of the Opera, Into the
Woods and South Pacific
◦ Back by popular demand, an evening of country music with DOLLY PARTON, the
‘World’s best Dolly tribute’ and ‘Europe’s leading’ KENNY ROGERS, plus a new twist
this year with the addition of Dolly Bingo and Line Dancing!

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 on Saturday 16th August
alongside West End legend Lee Mead
The Wight Proms Festival, sponsored by Red Funnel, was founded in 2018 by singer and
Cowes resident Mike Christie, who is also know for being in the multi-platinum selling
vocal harmony group G4, who shot to fame on The X Factor back in 2004.
There are ‘Meet & Greet’ tickets available to have the chance to meet some of our
headliners: Giovanni Pernice, Wynne Evans and Mike Christie, Lee Mead and Kelly
Mathieson, and Fascinating Aida

The festival is delighted to continue its relationship with associated island charity
‘Independent Arts’ who use the arts to improve well-being, quality of life and to reduce
social isolation on the Isle of Wight. Last year over £10,000 was raised for the charity with
the daily raffles during the festival

This year’s Wight Proms Festival will take place on 12-17 August:

Tue 12th – Event TBC (to be announced soon)

Wed 13th – Country: ‘Isle of Country’ DOLLY PARTON and KENNY ROGERS tribute, plus Dolly Bingo and Line Dancing

Thu 14th – Opera: ‘Isle of Opera Gala’

Fri 16th – Comedy: ‘A Wight Laugh’ FASCINATING AIDA

Sat 10th – Musicals: ‘Wight at the Musicals’ with stars of the West End LEE MEAD and
KELLY MATHIESON

Sun 18th – Proms: ‘Last Wight of the Proms’ starring WYNNE EVANS and special guest MIKE CHRISTIE, together with the WIGHT PROMS CONCERT ORCHESTRA