Festival

Tony McAleavy will tell the remarkable story of Walter Powell, MP for Malmesbury in the late 19th century

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Rides, stalls and fun for all the family!

Station Yard car park Thursday Friday 5pm to 9pm Saturday 2pm to 10pm

Preparation for the Procession for everyone who joined in with the Carnival Arts Workshops.

Bigger and better than ever, the Carnival showpiece event returns in all it's glory.

It's all for charity, but someone has to count it!

A joyous celebration held in our beautiful Abbey.

Tickets on sale at every event, £1 per ticket. Chance to win big value prizes and support our charities at the same time.

Igor Stravinsky 'The Soldier's Tale'-  Two performances 6pm and again at 8pm.

Step into a spellbinding fusion of music and theatre as The Soldier’s Tale brings the Devil, a princess, and a wayward soldier vividly to life in Igor Stravinsky’s iconic work.

This production is led by internationally acclaimed violinist Miranda Fulleylove, with a seven-piece ensemble of Britain’s finest musicians, performing with incisive energy and precision in support of a cast of singer/actors.

Directed by immersive theatre specialist Elgiva Field and conducted by Peter Ash, Artistic Director of the Odyssey Festival Orchestra, the performance weaves together fine musicianship with ebullient storytelling.

Lasting just one hour, the performance will be presented twice on the same evening, at 6pm and again at 8pm, providing two opportunities to experience this inventive and exhilarating cautionary tale...

A day of creative, musical fun for the whole family in the 'Tree of Trees.' Back for the third year with acoustic duo Lorna Somerville and Darren Fisher of 'Fly Yeti Fly' performing quirky indie-folk music, before teaching us a song we can all learn together! Enjoy pop-up activities from floral crafts, art, singing mamas, qigong, face painting and garden games. Ticket options: Family ticket (2 adults & up to 4 children) for £60 or 1 Adult (£20) & 1 Child (£10) plus add-on options for more adults

Michele Pasotti in conversation with Donald Macleod at Tetbury Goods Shed.

This conversation will explore the scholarship and artistic choices behind Michele Pasotti’s production of Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda by Claudio Monteverdi. 

St Mary's Church Tetbury.  Tickets £10 - £35

One of the world’s greatest violin virtuosos, Viktoria Mullova continues her collaboration with Alasdair Beatson, together playing Beethoven and Schubert on gut strings and fortepiano. 

During their three-year collaboration they have released a first duo disc of Schubert, followed by a Beethoven disc of Sonatas 6, 1 and 8 in 2024, and more recently their third duo album of Beethoven Sonatas 2 and 10. The combination of fortepiano and gut string violin are what Beethoven’s music craves, giving a rich texture and distinct colours between the registers.

This evening they perform Beethoven's 2nd, 3rd and 9th Sonatas. The fortepiano has been hired from Wigmore Hall, and Viktoria plays either her ‘Jules Falk’ 1723 Stradivarius or her Guadagnini violin.

Ludwig van Beethoven:
Sonata No 3 in E flat major
Sonata No 2 in A major
Sonata No 9 in A major, ‘Kreutzer'