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Celebrate the festive season in style with the vocalists and instrumentalists of the Down for the Count Orchestra, as they return to Bath Forum for their annual festive extravaganza!

This is a Christmas celebration like no other, as Down for the Count recreate the music of Nat ‘King’ Cole, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra and many more in a luscious 30-piece orchestral setting evoking the sounds of the great Capitol Studios recordings. 

Expect to hear faithful recreations of the best music of the swing era including I’ve Got You Under My Skin, Let’s Face The Music and Dance and ‘S Wonderful, alongside original arrangements of jazz and festive standards written by principal conductor Mike Paul-Smith and arranger Simon Joyner including The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting) and It’s Beginning To Look a Lot Like Christmas.

“Awesome!” Michael Bublé

“A sonic sleigh ride back to the sounds of Capitol Studios in the 1950s” DownBeat Magazine

“A potential rival to the John Wilson Orchestra” Jazzwise Magazine

Visit the website to book tickets and find out more

Join Grenville Jones and The Bath Welcome Chorus for an afternoon of carol singing, mulled wine and mince pies at The Gainsborough Bath Spa!

Go along with family and friends to spread some festive cheer.

Grenville Jones
Grenville is based in the City of Bath and is well-known for his work with choirs in the South West. Over the past 30 years Grenville has helped to raise over a million pounds for charities across the UK. Grenville’s rallying cry has always been that “SINGING should be on Prescription.” Over the years his commitment to bringing music, fun and singing has impacted on hundreds of thousands of lives across the World.

Located in the Chapel at The Gainsborough Hotel Bath Spa. All proceeds from the event will be donated to The Genesis Trust, supporting homeless and vulnerable people in the Bath area. Begins at 4.45pm, Friday 8 and Saturday 9 December

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!

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.

Where All is Peace: The Spirit of Christmas is a festive programme combining timeless carols, traditional songs and contemporary works by British and American composers. With a focus on peace, hope and winter’s beauty, this concert will be the perfect opportunity to embrace the Christmas spirit through soul-stirring choral music.

Expect to hear classic arrangements such as In the Bleak Mid-Winter, The 12 Days of Christmas, The Holly and the Ivy, and Malcolm Daglish’s showstopper Star in the East, among others.

Visit the website at thehandful.org to find out more

Head down to Bath Recreation Ground for an evening of carols, family fun and a celebration of Christmas in the heart of Bath on Wednesday 13 December from 6pm-7pm.

From carols to mince pies, all-age excitement to mulled wine, there’ll be something for everyone at Carols at the Rec!

Tickets are free, but you must show yours on entry to the ground, so get yours now at carolsattherec.com

The Circus Area Residents Association (CARA) is hosting Carols in the Circus at 7pm, Friday 15 December.

All CARA members, Bath residents and friends are welcome to go along to the event and join in the carols with the Salvation Army providing the music. This year they are delighted to also have Nicole Medin joining them to sing two of their selected carols as their guest soloist. 

There will be a charity collection at the event on behalf of nominated charities, so save the date and enjoy the musical magic of the Circus.

15 December | 7pm | The Circus, Bath BA1
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Steeple Rocks is a fabulous rock choir, performing pop, rock and a little gospel, including Christmas classics. Pop along for an afternoon performance with sing-along songs and the special magic that comes from a big group of live singers. A festive treat for all the family in the run up to Christmas!

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.

An afternoon performance featuring the best in local jazz, indoors in the Stables. Sit back and relax with John Law’s Re-creations and light refreshments from the Deli.

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.