Each event begins with a Spotlight Concert that showcases a number of young musicians from local schools, before the main concert featuring professional musicians.

[5] There is also an art exhibition, and raffle raising money for charitable causes.

[11] In 2015, the Concert Series launched the Sandbach Young Musician of the Year, an annual competition "open to individual performers aged 19 and under who have performed at one of the Sandbach Concert Series Spotlight concerts during the previous calendar year".

The competition was won by Alex Flanders, with prizes awarded by Sandbach Mayor Elsie Alcock.

[14] Notable performers have included Craig Ogden,[15] Chris Stout & Catriona McKay,[16] Gwilym Simcock,[8] Paul Edmund-Davies,[17] Bramwell Tovey,[18] Linda Richardson,[19] and Tina May and pianist Nikki Ile.