Lewes Festival of Song 2026
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This year's festival will be held on Saturday 31st October and Sunday 1st November 2026, with 5 wonderful concerts spread across the weekend. Concerts 1/2/4/5 will be held at St Anne's Church, Lewes, and concert 3 at Westgate Chapel (just down the road from St Anne's):1. 31 October 2.30pm - scottish soprano Eve Pearson Maxwell with pianist Francesca Lauri bring us a folk and sometimes Scottish-inspired concert including Villa Lobos, Grieg, Brahms, James Macmillan and Rodrigo.
2. 31 October 7.00pm - mezzo-soprano Joanna Harries and pianist Sholto Kynoch, founder of the Oxford International Song Festival, will perform ‘Letters from Scandinavia’, weaving together music and text that follows in the footsteps of intrepid nineteenth century women journeying in the ‘wild north’.
3. 31 October 9pm - buy a drink at the bar and relax to the music of Merlin and Polina Shepherd (clarinets, voice, piano) as they present a somewhat darker world of Klezmer for Hallowe’en night.
4. 1 November 2.30pm - mezzo-soprano Sally Bradshaw, pianist Julian Broughton and actor Gareth Armstrong bring a words and music concert called God Almighty First Planted a Garden, focused on the poetry of George Herbert and song settings of his and other poets’ words.
5. 1 November 7pm - for our Festival Finale, tenor James Gilchrist, pianist Nancy Cooley, the Elmore string quartet, and cor anglais and flautist, perform Warlock’s haunting The Curlew to poems by Yeats, Gurney’s song-cycle Ludlow and Teme for tenor and string quartet, and more Yeats settings for voice and piano by Muriel Herbert and Rebecca Clarke.
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Saturday 31 October 2026 - Sunday 1 November 2026 (UTC+01)Location
St Anne's Church
High St, Lewes , East Sussex BN7 1RJ
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