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We bring beautiful music, inspiring performers and thought-provoking programmes to Lewes every year.
Welcome to our 2026 Festival
Five concerts over the weekend of 31st October and 1st November
All concerts at St. Anne’s Church
except Late Night Klezmer which is at Westgate Chapel
SATURDAY OCTOBER 31ST
2.30PM
A Skein of Folk
folk-inspired songs including Villa Lobos,,
Grieg, MacMillan, Rodrigo, Thea Musgrave and Brahms
with the winners of the Ashburnham English Song Award, soprano Eve Pearson Maxwell and pianist Francesca Lauri
7PM
Letters from Scandinavia
Intrepid journeys in the wild north
with mezzo Joanna Harries and pianist Sholto Kynoch
9PM
Late Night Klezmer for Hallowe’en
Buy a drink and enjoy a relaxed evening
with Polina and Merlin Shepherd on clarinet, voice and piano
please note this concert is at the Westgate Chapel
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1ST
2.30PM
God Almighty First Planted a Garden
a weaving of music and poetry inspired by George Herbert
with mezzo Sally Bradshaw, pianist Julian Broughton,
and actor Gareth Armstrong
7PM - Festival Finale, with refreshments in the interval
Of the curlew and the wild country
Warlock’s The Curlew, Gurney’s Ludlow and Teme
and settings of poems by Yeats
with tenor James Gilchrist, the Elmore String Quartet,
flautist Jamie McClenaghan, cor anglais Maisie Ireland
and pianist Nancy Cooley
TICKETS
Festival Pass for the whole weekend £90
Late night Klezmer £15
Festival Finale £25
All other concerts £20
under 30s £10, £5 for Klezmer evening
under 18s free
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