Events & Concerts

General Information

Welcome to our Events and Concerts area. Here, you can find out about what’s happening at St. John’s.

If you are looking for information on our worship, please visit our Worship Services area, where you can find our service times, styles, and locations. Any variations from the regular pattern appear on this page.

Other activities include our Welcome Centre on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 12 noon to 3 pm (run jointly with Our Lady & St Thomas RC Church), and on Fridays from 12 noon to 2 pm the church is open for private prayer.

Concerts

St John’s Church has held fortnightly lunch-time concerts since 1975. Concerts are held on alternate Thursdays throughout most of the year with breaks at Christmas, Easter and the summer. Please check this calendar for the next few dates (and programmes, when available).

Light refreshments are available from 11.45am and the concert begins at 12.30pm. There is usually an interval and the concert finishes at around 1.45pm.

Admission is free but there is a collection on the way out to cover expenses. Please come and join us!

December 2023 – January 2024

Dec

Thu

Concert: Christmas music with Adrienne Walters

Dec 14 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Lunch time music with Adrienne Walters (soprano)

Music includes some Christmas music and carols for the audience to sing.

Provisional list of the music:
Mozart: Alleluia (from Exultate Jubilate)
Eric Fogg: The Carol of the Little King
Peter Cornelius: The Three Kings
Cecil Gibbs: Why do I love?
Daquin: The Cuckoo (piano solo)
Bach: Two movements from Magnificat: Et exultavit; Quia respexit
Britten: Four songs
Adolphe Adam: O Holy Night
Strauss: Audition Aria (from Die Fledermaus)