Southwell Music Festival 2025

Southwell Music Festival returns this August, filling the Nottinghamshire town with musical delights for all to enjoy from Friday 22 – Monday 25 August.

The full programme will be announced on 16 May at our free Launch Concert at Southwell Minster. But for now, here's a sneak peek of some of the many Festival highlights you can enjoy this year.

🎵 Selections from Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts. Blending jazz with spiritual themes, the sublime Festival Voices perform with Southwell Music Festival’s very first Big Band act, The Cottontail Orchestra.

🎵 Acclaimed folk artist Kathryn Tickell returns to Southwell Music Festival after a sell-out performance in 2023, this time alongside her band The Darkening.

🎵 The Festival Voices and Baroque Sinfonia join forces to fill the Minster Nave with glorious sound with a performance of Bach’s majestic B Minor Mass, conducted by Artistic Director Marcus Farnsworth.

Plus we have news about Come and Sing, the Musical Picnic, our first Relaxed Concert and the free Festival Fringe.

Tickets on sale from Monday 9 June.

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