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!

February – March 2022

Feb
6
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Feb 6 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

From Sunday 19 September 2021 our service has reverted to its usual time of 10 am. It is a full sung Holy Communion service, and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details).

Feb
10
Thu
Concert: Dominika Rosiek (violin) and Miho Sanou (piano)
Feb 10 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Lunch time music with Dominika Rosiek (violin) and Miho Sanou (piano)
Beethoven: Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30, No. 3
G.Bacewicz: Polish Caprice
Sarasate: Romanza Andaluza
E. Mlynarski: Romance
J. Massenet: Meditation from Thaïs
Simonetti: Madrigal
J. Achron: Hebrew Melody

Feb
13
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Feb 13 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

From Sunday 19 September 2021 our service has reverted to its usual time of 10 am. It is a full sung Holy Communion service, and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details).

Feb
20
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Feb 20 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

From Sunday 19 September 2021 our service has reverted to its usual time of 10 am. It is a full sung Holy Communion service, and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details).

Feb
24
Thu
Concert: An-Ting Chang (piano)
Feb 24 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Lunch time music with An-Ting Chang (piano)

Claude Debussy: Poisson d’or (The Fish of Gold)
Enrique Granados: Quejas, ó la Maja y el Ruiseñor (The Maiden and the Nightingale)
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Flight of the Bumblebee
Camille Saint-Saëns: The Carnival of the Animals

Pieces by An-Ting Chang (1985-):
Songs from My Room; London Night; Plague Time; Ping Pong Dance; Last June; Hoxton Street; Past Tense; Purple Dream

Feb
27
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Feb 27 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

From Sunday 19 September 2021 our service has reverted to its usual time of 10 am. It is a full sung Holy Communion service, and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details).

Mar
2
Wed
Ash Wednesday sung Communion
Mar 2 @ 8:00 pm – 8:45 pm

All are welcome to our Sung Eucharist at 8 pm for Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent. (There will also be the usual on-line service at 10.30 am.)

Mar
4
Fri
World Day of Prayer service
Mar 4 @ 7:00 pm – 7:45 pm

All are welcome to this annual event: this year the service in central Harrow is at St John’s, and will be on the theme “I know the plans I have for you”. The service has been devised by the Christian women of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Refreshments will be served afterwards.

Mar
6
Sun
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Mar 6 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am

From Sunday 19 September 2021 our service has reverted to its usual time of 10 am. It is a full sung Holy Communion service, and we are also streaming it live on the Internet (email us for details).

Mar
10
Thu
Concert: Sarah Gait (cello) and Frederic Bager (piano)
Mar 10 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm

Lunch time music with Sarah Gait (cello) and Frederic Bager (piano)
Janacek: Pohadka
Lili Boulanger (trans. Gait): Le Retour
Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Chopin: Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65
Schumann: “Mein schöner Stern” Op. 101, No. 4 (transcribed by S. Gait).