Broadway Arts Festival is taking shape nicely for next year and looks to be another of those events where a Cotswold community creates an important cultural event by drawing on local passion and long term historical connections. 

Broadway is a gem of a Cotswold village, very well known to US visitors and this Festival will do more to strengthen the link.  The American painter John Singer Sargent created his masterpiece ’Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ whilst staying in Broadway - having fled Paris where his painting of ’Madame X’, had scandalised the art world.

2010’s Festival will be between the 11-20th of June and the organisers have already secured loan from the Tate of important studies for the picture.