Concerts

Coming up in 2026:

Saturday 28th March 2026 at 7.30pm at Lanercost Priory – music for Easter and Passiontide

Saturday 30th May a performance of the “Nelson” Mass by Joseph Haydn

Friday 17th July at 7.30pm Summer Concert at St Martin’s Church, Brampton, repeated elsewhere (to be confirmed) on Sunday 19th July.

Recent performances:

Sunday 14th December 2025 at 3pm at Lanercost Priory with harpist Lucy Nolan and a really big audience – thank you for supporting us.

Our 2025 summer concerts were at St Martin’s Church Brampton on Friday 11th July, repeated at Holm Cultram Abbey, Abbeytown near Wigton on Sunday 20th July. We were delighted to be joined by the talented saxophonist Anna Morley. (Thank you Alan Sawyer for the photo)

Our springtime concert featured Haydn’s “Nelson” Mass at Lanercost Priory. Here we are enjoying the applause at the end of the performance.

And you can read a review of the concert, from Nicky Beecham, here:

Christmas concert Sunday 15th December 2024 at 3pm at Lanercost Priory. Read the review here:

Carols at The Fleece, Ruleholme, Sunday 22nd December 2024 at 3pm.

On Friday 12th July at St Martin’s Church, Brampton and Sunday 14th at St Augustine’s Church, Alston.

Concert review here:

Sunday 2nd June 2024 at 3 pm, an informal concert for our patrons.

Saturday 23rd March 2024, our Passiontide concert “Radiance” at Lanercost Priory at 7.30pm

Sunday 10th December: Christmas concert at Lanercost Priory. Thank you to everyone who came, and to our reviewer. You can read the review here:

Sunday 17th December 2023: carol singing at The Fleece, Ruleholme at 3 pm, followed by a carol service at Lanercost Priory.

On Saturday 25th November 2023: a concert for Advent at St Kentigern’s, Caldbeck.

In July 2023, we were delighted to welcome the wonderful Eden Brass quartet for a concert featuring music by Gabrieli, Bach, Palestrina and Purcell. It took place at Holme Cultram, Abbeytown near Silloth – what a fabulous place to perform!

Our Passiontide concert was on Saturday 25th March, at Lanercost Priory. We sang sacred music for the season of Lent, including masses by William Byrd (1539 – 1623), and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525 – 1594).

Our last Christmas concert was on Sunday 11th December 2022. Thank you to Brampton Methodist Church for allowing us to come to your warm building after problems with the heating at Lanercost Priory.

On Saturday 24th September 2022 we were at St Kentigern’s Church in Caldbeck. “Songs for September” featured works by Henry Purcell and Ralph Vaughan Williams, and what a warm welcome we received – thank you for having us.