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We bring beautiful music, inspiring performers and thought-provoking programmes to Lewes every year.
2026 Festival EVENTS
SWEET LIGHT OF THE MUSE
Sunday July 5th at 6pm
Our special summer evening concert is part of the year-long Festival Britten: 50 years on, at St. Anne’s Church in Lewes.
Tenor Nicholas Mulroy and pianist Nancy Cooley will perform two radiant song-cycles illuminated by new loves: Britten’s Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo and Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson.
Their concert also includes some beautiful English songs.
There will be an interval with refreshments
This concert is dedicated to Felicity Lott, a dear friend to our Festival
OUR FESTIVAL HAS MOVED TO THE AUTUMN
We bring you five concerts spread over the weekend of 31st October and 1st November
* Tenor James Gilchrist is coming to sing here for the first time in an all-English programme with instrumental ensemble
* Mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries and pianist Sholto Kynoch will perform ‘Letters from Scandinavia’
* The winners of the 2025 Ashburnham English Song Award, soprano Eve Pearson Maxwell and pianist Francesca Lauri, lean into diverse folk traditions from many countries
* Polina and Merlin Shepherd will wow us with a late-evening Klezmer concert
* Mezzo-soprano Sally Bradshaw, pianist Julian Broughton and actor Gareth Armstrong bring us music and the spoken word about the garden, based round the poetry of George Herbert
Tickets for the Festival will be released soon and will be available through this website.
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