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| The National Street Music Festival started
in 1983, in Sheffield, as the Street Bands Festival. A group of street
bands, who existed mainly to play in the big marches and demos that
characterised the 80s' radical politics, decided to meet in each other's
towns and cities once a year. Their intention was to bring politics
on to the streets in ways that would be creative, engaging, thought
provoking and fun.
As the 80s progressed, the bands were joined by a few of the newly forming political choirs, and the event became known as the Street Music Festival. Until 1991, street bands from all over England took turns at organising the festival. In 1991, the London festival was jointly organised by a band and a choir for the first time. In each subsequent year, the number and range of participating choirs has grown and community, as well as political choirs are now included. In 1997, separate festivals for choirs and bands were held, and so the event continues to change with time. Recent Street Music Festivals: 1998 in Leicester
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