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!

October – November 2021

Oct
3
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Oct 3 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.

Oct
7
Thu
Concert: John MacDomnic (trumpet) and Adrian Boynton (piano/organ)
Oct 7 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Lunch time music with John MacDomnic (trumpet) and Adrian Boynton (piano/organ)
Albinoni: Sonata in C for Trumpet and Strings
Francis Thomé: Fantaisie for Trumpet and Piano
Bach: Fugue in E flat (St Anne)
Haydn: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E flat
Thorvold Hansen: Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Op. 18
Boellmann: Prière à Notre-Dame and Toccata (Suite Gothique)
Leonard Bernstein: Four Miniatures
Percy Code: Zelda (Caprice)

Oct
10
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Oct 10 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.

Oct
17
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Oct 17 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.

Oct
21
Thu
Concert: Niel du Preez (piano)
Oct 21 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Lunch time music with Niel du Preez (piano).
Busoni: Ich ruf’ zu dir, Herr
Beethoven: Sonata No. 17, Op. 31 No. 2 in D minor (“Tempest”)
Chopin: Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op. 60
Scriabin: Six Études
Liszt: Vallée d’Obermann

Oct
24
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Oct 24 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.

Oct
31
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Oct 31 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.

Nov
4
Thu
Concert: Odinn Baldvinsson (flute) and Mayumi Iida (piano)
Nov 4 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Lunch time music with Odinn Baldvinsson (flute) and Mayumi Iida (piano)
Philippe Gaubert: Sonata No. 1 in A major for flute and piano
Paulo Taballione: Fantasia on La Traviata by G Verdi
Tchaikowsky: Lensky’s aria from Eugene Onegin
Schubert: Sonata in A minor (Arpeggione)

Nov
7
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Nov 7 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.

Nov
14
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Nov 14 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

All are welcome to our main Sunday service. It is a full sung Holy Communion service (Order 1 of Common Worship), and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details). Refreshments afterwards. There are usually activities for children.