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!

January – May 2022

To mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, our morning service this week will be a united service at Harrow Baptist Church, College Road, [...]
Concert: Valentin Schiedermair (piano)
Thu 27 January 2022 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Lunch time music with Valentin Schiedermair ‘Mozart’s 265th Birthday concert’ Mozart: Sonata in C major K. 330 Beethoven: Sonata in E major Op. 14 No. [...]
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 30 January 2022 @ 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 [...]
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 6 February 2022 @ 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 [...]
Concert: Dominika Rosiek (violin) and Miho Sanou (piano)
Thu 10 February 2022 @ 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 [...]
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 13 February 2022 @ 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 [...]
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 20 February 2022 @ 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 [...]
Concert: An-Ting Chang (piano)
Thu 24 February 2022 @ 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 [...]
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 27 February 2022 @ 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 [...]
Ash Wednesday sung Communion
Wed 2 March 2022 @ 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 [...]
World Day of Prayer service
Fri 4 March 2022 @ 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 [...]
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 6 March 2022 @ 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 [...]
Concert: Sarah Gait (cello) and Frederic Bager (piano)
Thu 10 March 2022 @ 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 [...]
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 13 March 2022 @ 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 [...]
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 20 March 2022 @ 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 [...]
Concert: Dominic John (piano)
Thu 24 March 2022 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Lunch time music with <a href=”dominicjohn.co.uk”>Dominic John</a> (piano) [We regret that Warren Mailley-Smith is indisposed and are very grateful to Dominic for stepping in at [...]
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 27 March 2022 @ 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 [...]
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 3 April 2022 @ 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 [...]
Concert: The Plaegan Piano Trio
Thu 7 April 2022 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Lunch time music with the Plaegan Piano Trio Helen Sills (violin) Bettina St.J Lawrence (cello) Alan Brown (piano) Beethoven: Piano Trio in C minor, Op. [...]
Palm Sunday procession and Eucharist
Sun 10 April 2022 @ 9:50 am – 11:20 am
We meet by Katy’s statue at the junction of St Ann’s Road and Station Road carrying palm branches and palm crosses to celebrate Jesus riding [...]
Maundy Thursday Communion
Thu 14 April 2022 @ 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm
“Maundy” comes from the Latin for “commandment” (like “mandate”). At the Last Supper (on the night before his crucifixion on Good Friday) Jesus told his [...]
Good Friday walk of witness
Fri 15 April 2022 @ 10:30 am – 11:45 am
Central Harrow church members walk with a large wooden cross from Harrow Baptist Church in College Road through the streets to St John’s, where we [...]
Good Friday meditation
Fri 15 April 2022 @ 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Join us to pray about the events of Good Friday and what it means for us today.
Stainer’s Crucifixion
Fri 15 April 2022 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Stainer's Crucifixion
The Choir of St John’s, with other local singers, will perform The Crucifixion, by John Stainer, on Good Friday, 15 April, at 7 pm. Leaving [...]
Easter Vigil
Sat 16 April 2022 @ 8:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Jesus died on Good Friday. On Saturday his body lay in a tomb. We do not know the exact time that he rose from the [...]
Easter Day Festival Eucharist
Sun 17 April 2022 @ 10:00 am – 11:15 am
Come and join us for our Eucharist to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 24 April 2022 @ 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 [...]
Concert: Nicola Tait (cello) and Mina Miletic (piano)
Thu 28 April 2022 @ 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm
Lunch time music with Nicola Tait (cello) and Mina Miletic (piano) Schumann: 5 Volkstücke: No. 1 With Humour Janacek: Pohadka 1st movement Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade: Tale [...]
Sung Holy Communion service in Church
Sun 1 May 2022 @ 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 [...]
We will be holding our Annual Meeting of Parishioners to elect Churchwardens and our Annual Parochial Church Meeting in St John’s at about 11 am [...]