Gloucester Tall Ships is back for 2022 with a jam-packed schedule of family fun and entertainment, setting sail over Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee Weekend, Friday 3rd - Sunday 5th June. As well as performers and entertainers, the free-to-attend festival has a huge range of fantastic traders selling gifts, crafts, street food, drink, homewares and […]
Gloucester Sea Shanty Festival to return alongside Tall Ships. Sea Shanties have become a viral trend on Tik Tok, and now they arrive on Gloucester’s ‘shores’ at the 2022 Gloucester Shanty Festival. Expect lots of rhythmic thigh slapping and catchy nautical folk songs at the event. It straddles the Queen’s Jubilee weekend of June 4 […]
The Gloucester Folk Trail first arrived in the city in 2018. Folk musicians, artists and poets from around the county congregate in venues around the city, paying homage to traditional forms of Folk music, performance, entertainment, and arts & crafts. It is funded and supported by the businesses and venues involved and Gloucester BID. For […]
London Concertante present a sensational evening at the opera with an array of the finest opera arias and overtures, including works from Puccini, Verdi, Rossini, and Mozart – some of the best from Madame Butterfly, Turandot, Tosca, The Barber of Seville, Carmen, Cosi fan Tutti and so much more. Presented by Candlelight with some of […]
This rescheduled concert promises to be every bit as special as the occasion deserves. Herbert Howells’s Hymnus Paradisi was first performed at the Gloucester Three Choirs Festival of 1950. Hymnus Paradisi is set in six movements that combine the texts of psalms, the Latin mass and other sacred texts for chorus, orchestra and soli. Rarely performed, […]
It's Easter time again, and that means our biggest festival of the year! brewe50+ beers, street food, live music!
INCREDIBLE DANCE, PARKOUR AND ACROBATICS - FREE 30 min outdoor performance - Featuring leading circus company @ockhamsrazoruk & over 100 Gloucester residents - All welcome – just turn up
This Summer our Steampunk Festival celebrates characters from Quartermain, Fogg, and van Helsing to Randolph and John Carter, to Holmes and Adèle Blanc-Sec, and all those other extraordinary gentlefolk. As well as our Market full of intriguing and beautiful objects there will be a whole host of Talks, activities for all the kids and our […]
Nine days of great live music in various venues around the city. More information to follow when confirmed.
This year’s Gloucester Three Choirs Festival will be the 295th! No other UK festival can come near to that record of longevity. We have centuries of tradition to refer to and to respect, but the festival has survived so long through innovation, sometimes gentle and sometimes radical. My first festival as a chorister in 1969 […]
