Events

Venue - Cawston Village Hall

Cost - £6 per person

Type of Event - Quiz

Join us for an exciting evening filled with music, fun, and refreshments! Test your knowledge of music across various genres while enjoying delicious snacks and drinks. Our engaging compere will guide you through the quiz, ensuring a lively atmosphere.

To book your tickets, click here.

Venue - Cawston Parish Church

Cost - Free Event - donations encouraged 

Type of Event - Singalong

Come and request your favourite hymns, and we'll sing as many of them as we can fit in! We might not have the resources of the famous BBC TV programme, but we plan to fill the church with your favourite hymns.

If you'd like to request your favourite hymn(s), click this link to send us the details.

Venue - Cawston Village Hall

Cost - Free Entry 

Type of Event - Fundraiser

Not strictly a musical event, but a fundraiser for our village community choir. It takes place at Cawston Village Hall starting at 7.30pm. 

Entry is free and is open to everyone so please bring your friends and family. You can buy a horse and place bets - please bring cash for this. There will also be a paying bar and we will take cash and card for this. 

Venue - Cawston Parish Church

Cost - £10 per person (under 18 free) 

Type of Event - Instrumental Recital

The organ at Cawston Parish Church will be put through its paces by celebrated organist, Dr John Carnelly, President of the Norfolk Organists' Association.   

Entry is £10 per person, payable on the door. Refreshments will be provided after the performance. 

Venue - Cawston Parish Church

Cost - Free Event - donations encouraged 

Type of Event - Workshop

In this workshop session, Rev'd Andrew Whitehead will teach you all songs of worship from around the world. There will be short chants from Africa and South America, plus new hymns you may not know. Be prepared to learn something new - you may even go away with a few ear-worms!  

There's no cost to attend, but donations to the Church will be welcomed.

Venue - Cawston Village Hall

Cost - Ticketed Event - £5 per person - buy here

Type of Event - Disco / Party

Cawston Village Hall is the venue for a night of energetic music that will take you back in time!

 Bring your own snacks and drinks, Tea & coffees & soft drinks will be available to purchase, Optional 1970's dress 

Venue - Cawston Parish Church

Cost - £10 per person (under 18s free) payable on the door

Type of Event - Folk concert

The amazing Cawston Parish Church is the venue for exciting East Anglian folk musicians, Georgia Shackleton and Aaren Bennett who are touring Georgia’s new album ‘From the Floorboards’, alongside traditional East Anglian material from ‘Harry’s Seagull’. Self penned and traditional songs and tunes rooted in history, the sea, and storytelling.

Joined on tour by guitarist Aaren Bennett, Georgia weaves her distinctive songwriting together with traditional songs penned by Shackleton and his crew while stranded in Antarctic ice, as well as East Anglian folk material, creating a seamless dialogue between past and present. Expect an immersive journey through icy seas, eroding coastlines, and living oceans - honouring early explorers while reflecting on today’s fragile marine world.

“Beautiful Songs” - Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2

“Spirited storytelling and timeless tunes” - Tom Robinson, BBC 6 Music

Venue - Haveringland Parish Church

Cost - Free Event

Type of Event - Rehearsal / Workshop

If you've ever anted to sing evensong but never had the chance, you'll be very welcome to join our scratch choir for the Evensong in Haveringland on the 28th June. We'll have 2 rehearsals to get to grips with hymns, chants and maybe an anthem. If you can't make both rehearsals, don't worry - come to what you can.

Tuesday 23rd June - 11:30am

Thursday 25th June - 2pm

Venue - Cawston Parish Church

Cost - no charge

Type of Event - Act of Christian Worship

The Norwich Taizé Group will lead us in an act of worship in the style of Taizé, the French community renowned for its contemplative character and easily-sung short chants. The Norwich Taizé Group lead regular services at St Luke's in Norwich.

If you'd like a chance to learn the chants, then come at 6pm for a short run-through of the music. The service starts at 6:30pm and will be followed by refreshments. 

Venue - Cawston Parish Church

Cost - Ticketed Event 

Type of Event - Concert

On the evening of the 27th June our community choir will bring a varied programme of music for your entertainment, and there may be some opportunities to sing along too!

For this event the Community Choir will be joined by CAWrus (Cawston Primary Academy's Choir), Weston Longville's "Singing for All" Choir.

Doors will open at 6:30pm and a bar will be available, selling beers wines and soft drinks.

Tickets are available on the door and are priced at £5 per adult (under 18s free) 

Venue - Cawston Parish Church

Cost - Free Event - donations encouraged 

Type of Event - Workshop / Christian Worship

For this final event of the festival, we extend our parish boundaries to include the nearby village of Haveringland. The church in Haveringland is dedicated to St Peter, whose Feast Day falls at the end of June. We will celebrate with a service of Evensong.

If you're a singer and would like to learn how to sing Evensong, then come along on Tuesday 23rd at 11:30 and/or Thursday 25th at 2pm.  We will learn some chants, hymns and an anthem ready for the evensong service on the Sunday.  

The Sunday service will begin at 6:30pm in church and all are welcome.

The service will be followed by wine and nibbles.