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Variety of Seasonal music, readings and audience participation for all the family

Join all the Abbey choirs including the young Melody Makers in their Christmas celebrations. Music, readings and audience carols…there will be something for everyone!

8.30pm finish with interval drinks.

Variety of Seasonal music, readings and audience participation for all the family.

Join all the Abbey choirs including the young Melody Makers in their Christmas celebrations.

Music, readings and audience carols…there will be something for everyone!

Handel’s glorious masterpiece sung by acclaimed Abbey choirs of Girls and Lay Clerks, accompanied by the ‘superb’ virtuosic specialist players, Rejouissance.

Previous performances by the same choir described as ‘intense and electrifying’, ‘full of energy and urgency’ with ‘outstanding’ soloists taken from the Abbey’s own choir.

8.30pm finish with interval drinks.

Handel’s glorious masterpiece sung by acclaimed Abbey choirs of Girls and Lay Clerks.

Accompanied by the ‘superb’ virtuosic specialist players, Rejouissance.

Previous performances by the same choir described as ‘intense and electrifying’, ‘full of energy and urgency’ with ‘outstanding’ soloists taken from the abbey’s own choir.

Children are invited to come dressed as a shepherd, angel or wise man or star to take part in a fun retelling of the Nativity – with a real live donkey! The Family Carols begins at 3.30pm.

 John Rutter, the legendary composer and conductor, will be taking over the baton at Bath Camerata’s Christmas concert once again this year. 

The concert will feature a festive feast of well-loved carols and Christmas music, both familiar and less well known. Naturally there will also be a few Rutter favourites interspersed throughout, plus there’ll be the opportunity to sing along with some classic audience carols. 

Tickets are priced from £10 to £30 with half-price tickets available for under 25s. 

A Christmas meditation with organist Huw Williams and scripture readings. All welcome, and starts at 7pm. No reserved seating or tickets required.

Join Bath Abbey for a joyful celebration of Christ’s birth as we welcome in Christmas Day in this special service of Holy Communion.

As part of Candlemas, in January we celebrate Epiphany, the time when the wise men from distant lands brought gifts to the baby Jesus in the stable at Bethlehem.

Welcome the New Year with a magical evening of enchanting music sung by the acclaimed Bath Abbey Girls’ Choir. Music includes Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece, A Ceremony of Carols and John Rutter’s Tomorrow shall be my dancing day accompanied by beautiful sounds of the harp. The concert will begin at 7pm.