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march
22mar12:00 pmFriday Lunchtime Concert: Heathcliff Trio IIFriday lunchtime music
Event Details
Friday 22nd March 2024 at 12pm Doors open at 11.30am Tickets: £12.00 (under 30s half price) Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE Alternatively from Britten Pears
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Event Details
Friday 22nd March 2024 at 12pm
Doors open at 11.30am
Tickets: £12.00 (under 30s half price)
Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE
Alternatively from Britten Pears Arts’ box office at Snape Maltings Concert Hall or by calling 01728 687110.
The Janáček transcription is played alongside Schumann’s second piano trio and Rihm’s Fremde Szenen III – a piece inspired by Schumann.
Ashley Tong violin
Clara Lindenbaum cello
Jonathan Siahaan piano
About Heathcliff Trio
Bonded by a musical consensus and shared vision, the Heathcliff Trio was founded in late 2020. It grew out of a collaboration between childhood friends Ashley Tong and Sebastian Kolin, who had studied together at the Yehudi Menuhin School, and Danish pianist Jonathan Siahaan.
They recently won first prize in the 9th International Johannes Brahms Chamber Music Competition (2022). The Heathcliff Trio is currently based in Copenhagen under the guidance of Tim Frederiksen at The Royal Danish Academy of Music on the Advance Postgraduate Program and is also a member of the European Chamber Music Academy.
Each Friday from January to March we welcome some of the best young ensembles from the UK and abroad to Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall for Britten Pears Arts’ Friday Lunchtime Concert series.
Time
(Friday) 12:00 pm
Location
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall
Event Details
Saturday 23rd March 2024 at 11.00am Doors open at 10.30am Tickets: £10 Tickets are available HERE By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm
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Saturday 23rd March 2024 at 11.00am
Doors open at 10.30am
Tickets: £10
Tickets are available HERE
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
Sarah Doig presents a potpourri of tales about some of the county’s famous and not so well-known women, all of whom achieved great things in their chosen fields including art, poetry and charity work. Sarah explores the fascinating lives of our county’s suffragettes, including Sophia Duleep Singh. She also dips into the life of Norah Lofts who drew inspiration from Suffolk’s rich history for her writing. Also included are the stories of the Elizabethan surgeon and herbalist Catherine Tollemache, the amazing ‘Human Arro’ Pansy Chinery and many more of our county’s heroines.
The talk lasts approximately 75 minutes.
Time
(Saturday) 11:00 am - 9:30 pm
Location
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall
Event Details
Saturday 30th March 2024 at 7.30pm Doors & bar open at 7.00pm Tickets: £18 Tickets are available HERE By phoning
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Saturday 30th March 2024 at 7.30pm
Doors & bar open at 7.00pm
Tickets: £18
Tickets are available HERE
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
A delightful musical tour of jazz’s history with music from legends Bix Beiderbecke, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker and Miles Davis with stylistic nods to New Orleans, swing, bebop, cool jazz, modal and Latin. Trumpeter Paul Higgs is widely recognised as one of the UK’s best jazz trumpeters. A versatile and varied career has seen him in the post of Musical Director at the National Theatre and the RSC, and he has performed with artists and orchestras from the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra to Johnny Dankworth, Lulu, Tony Hatch, John Williams, and Nancy Wilson. With Jim Watson (piano), Jeremy Brown (bass) and George Double (drums).
“A gorgeous tone, unflagging inspiration, stylistic cognizance at its most perceptive and enviably faultless chops” JAZZ RAG
Watch the official trailer here
The performance ends at approx. 9.30pm including an interval
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm
april
Event Details
Thursday 4th April 2024 at 7.30pm Doors & bar open at 7.00pm Tickets: £20 Tickets are available HERE By phoning
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Thursday 4th April 2024 at 7.30pm
Doors & bar open at 7.00pm
Tickets: £20
Tickets are available HERE
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
Media executive turned stand-up comedian, Cally Beaton is now a favourite on BBC Two’s QI, and regular contributor to The Apprentice: You’re Fired, as well as Radio 4’s The Now Show, The Unbelievable Truth and Saturday Live. She’s an eloquent natural story-teller – a rollercoaster ride of anecdotes, observations and stuff even your best mate wouldn’t admit to – majoring on the life, loves and trials of a 50-something woman. And it’s quite a life. She didn’t take to the stage until her mid-40s, inspired by a chance encounter with the late, great Joan Rivers, having been a high-flying media executive including a stint as Senior Vice-President at the US Studio giant CBSViacom (if you want someone to blame for bringing South Park and SpongeBobSquarePants into the world then look no further…).
She’s also a writer and podcaster (creating Namaste, Motherf***ers, an unlikely but hilarious collision of self-help, business and comedy) and her regular TikTok on-location mini-confessionals are a delight. And who wouldn’t love a character who named her 2017 debut Edinburgh show Super Cally Fragile Lipstick…
Packing a support act, Louis Green as compere and sets from rising stars into the evening, the first Aldeburgh Comedy Club of the year is full of the joys of Spring.
“A comedy queen – fiery, intelligent and totally original” Sara Pascoe, Comedian & Actor
“Cally Beaton is an exciting and hilarious talent, definitely one to watch. Sometimes you just know when someone’s got it – and she’s got it” Time Out
The performance ends approx. 9.45pm (including two intervals)
Time
(Thursday) 7:30 pm
06apr10:00 amA Carousel of CraftingPresented in association with Aldeburgh Library Foundation
Event Details
Saturday 6th April 2024 10.00am - 4.00pm In partnership with Aldeburgh Library Foundation A whole day course – expert tuition from experienced crafters in
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Saturday 6th April 2024
10.00am – 4.00pm
In partnership with Aldeburgh Library Foundation
A whole day course – expert tuition from experienced crafters in
- Wire sculpture
- Stained glass and traditional leaded glass
- iPad art
- Calligraphy
- Lino cutting and printing
- Jewellery making
Course fee £30
More details and booking here
Time
(Saturday) 10:00 am
Event Details
Friday 12th to Sunday 14th April 2024 Friday 12th April 2024, 7.30pm Saturday 13th April 2024, 2.30pm & 7.30pm Sunday 14th April 2024, 11.00am Doors open 30 minutes before each performance Tickets:
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Event Details
Friday 12th to Sunday 14th April 2024
Friday 12th April 2024, 7.30pm
Saturday 13th April 2024, 2.30pm & 7.30pm
Sunday 14th April 2024, 11.00am
Doors open 30 minutes before each performance
Tickets: £12.50
Tickets are available here:
Friday 12th April, 7.30pm HERE
Saturday 13th April, 2.30pm HERE
Saturday 13th April, 7.30pm HERE
Sunday 14th April, 11.00am HERE
Bright Sparks are back with a bang for Rapunzel, the Hair-larious Family Pantomime. Join us for the fairytale of Rapunzel, a girl who was kidnapped as a baby and has been locked away in a tower for almost 18 years. Her Parents, The King and Queen, release Lanterns each year on Rapunzel’s birthday in hope that she will follow them home. However, The Witch has placed a curse on the whole village forbidding them to search for her. There will be lots of Boos, Ahhs, Laughter and maybe even some tears along the way. Will Rapunzel discover the truth? or will the Witches curse get in the way and leave her a lost princess forever.
Presented by Bright Sparks
The performance lasts approx. 2 hours including an interval.
Time
12 (Friday) 7:30 pm - 14 (Sunday) 11:00 am
20apr9:30 am1:00 pmSpring Farmers MarketFine Suffolk food and artisan produce
Event Details
Saturday 20th April 2024, 9.30am - 1.00pm Free entry Come to our Spring Farmers Market, for fine Suffolk food and artisan produce. Discover all kinds of local food and drink makers who
Event Details
Saturday 20th April 2024, 9.30am – 1.00pm
Free entry
Come to our Spring Farmers Market, for fine Suffolk food and artisan produce.
Discover all kinds of local food and drink makers who come to sell their produce direct to you. This is a friendly market offering an excellent range of high-quality local produce.
If you are interested in booking a stall, please contact manager@aldeburghjubileehall.co.uk. Spaces will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis.
Time
(Saturday) 9:30 am - 1:00 pm
Location
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall
21apr7:00 pmKathryn Tickell & The DarkeningThe songs, landscape and mythology of North-East England
Event Details
Sunday 21st April 2024 at 7.00pm Doors & bar open at 6.30pm Tickets: £21 Tickets are available HERE By phoning
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Sunday 21st April 2024 at 7.00pm
Doors & bar open at 6.30pm
Tickets: £21
Tickets are available HERE
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
Based in the shadow of Hadrian’s Wall yet reaching out to the wider world, Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening explore the connecting threads of music, landscape and people over a period of almost 2000 years. Songs range from themes of freedom, nature and venturing out into the world after times of darkness, to a Roman inscription with links to Libya and Syria magnetically pulled into the 21st century with glorious vocal harmonies and the wildest of piping.
Kathryn Tickell is the foremost exponent of the Northumbrian pipes; a composer, performer, educator and successful recording artist “No one has evoked the landscape and traditions of Northumbria more affectingly than Kathryn Tickell” wrote The Observer…”she is steeped in the songs and mythology of the north-east.”
Named after the old Northumbrian word for twilight, The Darkening is made up of four North-East England-based members: Kathryn (Northumbrian smallpipes, fiddle, vocals), Amy Thatcher (accordion, synth, clogs, vocals), Kieran Szifris (octave mandolin), Joe Truswell (drums, percussion); with Josie Duncan from the Isle of Lewis (vocals, clarsach).
www.kathryntickell.com
Twixxer: @kathryntickell
Instagram: kathryntickell
Facebook: kathryntickell
Youtube: @TheKathrynTickell
Time
(Sunday) 7:00 pm
may
11may7:30 pmEliza CarthyA solo tour from folk superstar
Event Details
Saturday 11th May 2023 at 7.30pm Doors & bar open at 7.00pm Tickets: £22 Tickets are available HERE ** Tickets
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Saturday 11th May 2023 at 7.30pm
Doors & bar open at 7.00pm
Tickets: £22
Tickets are available HERE
** Tickets are on sale from 29th September 2023
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
If there is one musician who embodies the dynamism and vitality of the English folk scene, it’s Eliza Carthy MBE. Beloved of staunch traditionalists and iconoclasts alike, Eliza’s music effortlessly crosses boundaries of genre and style. Whether solo or fronting a big band, performing a centuries-old ballad or a self-written song, have influenced a whole generation of young musicians.
The daughter of folk legends Martin Carthy & Norma Waterson, Eliza was championed from an early age by John Peel, Andy Kershaw and Billy Bragg. Twice nominated for the Mercury Prize, and winner of innumerable other accolades over her thirty-year career, Eliza has performed and recorded around the world with a diverse array of artists including, Paul Weller, Rufus & Martha Wainwright, Patrick Wolf, and Jarvis Cocker.
Tonight she goes solo, showcasing her powerful, nuanced voice, fiercely beautiful fiddle-playing and effervescent on-stage presence. Describing herself simply as a modern English musician, she is one of the most impressive, engaging, and important performers of her generation.
‘Unarguably the queen of English Folk’
The Observer
‘Not the Messiah, but a very naughty girl’
Stewart Lee
The event ends approx. 9.30pm (inc. interval)
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm
Event Details
Saturday 18th May 2024 7.30pm Tickets: £18 Tickets available HERE By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner
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Saturday 18th May 2024
7.30pm
Tickets: £18
Tickets available HERE
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
Marie Jones writer
Jake Smith director
Venture across the Irish Sea to County Kerry. Local lads Jake and Charlie are working as extras on a Hollywood epic movie that has taken over their small village in rural Ireland. Switching from plucky Irish extra to know-it-all American movie star with a flick of the wrist, Jake and Charlie take on all fifteen characters to tell the story of the impact this movie has on their local community. The result is a sad, hilarious and irresistible play that pushes the boundaries of storytelling.
Inspired by the cinematic stylings of Wes Anderson, Eastern Angles are also adding newly composed music and video projection to the multi-award winning play. A hit in Dublin, Edinburgh and London’s West End, Stones In His Pockets is a chance for audiences to laugh, cry and revel in the power of theatricality.
“Marie Jones pulls off an ingenious theatrical trick that has political kick” Time Out
Age Guidance 14+
The performance ends approx. 2hr and 20 mins including an interval.
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Location
Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall
Event Details
Saturday 25th May 2023 at 7.30pm Doors & bar open at 7.00pm Tickets: £22 Tickets are available HERE By phoning
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Saturday 25th May 2023 at 7.30pm
Doors & bar open at 7.00pm
Tickets: £22
Tickets are available HERE
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
Multi award-winning jazz vocalist and BBC Radio presenter, Claire Martin OBE presents a celebration of some of the greatest jazz vocalists of the 20th Century.
Arranged and curated by Claire, this concert celebrates the music of the twentieth century’s quintessential jazz vocalists – whose legacy and influence continues to define a classic era of music. She packs the evening with stylish reworkings of Great American Songbook classics from the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Shirley Horn, Carmen McRae and more, as well as sneak previews from her forthcoming album Almost in Your Arms.
Versatile, charismatic and a passionate advocate for jazz in all its forms, Claire Martin is a tour de force on the UK jazz scene gaining many awards, including winning the British Jazz Awards eight times during her career. A professional singer since the age of 19, she has since released 18 CDs with on the prestigious Linn label, collaborating with musical luminaries including Martin Taylor, John Martyn, Stephane Grappelli, Kenny Barron, Richard Rodney Bennett and Jim Mullen.
Claire co-presented BBC Radio 3’s flagship jazz program Jazz Line Up from 2000 to 2017 and interviewed many of her musical heroes such as Pat Metheny and the late Michael Brecker. She was awarded an OBE for her services to jazz in 2011.
She ranks amongst the four or five finest female jazz vocalists on the planet Jazz Times USA
A consummate jazz singer with old-school virtues … she wins plaudits everywhere she works
The Guardian
The performance ends approx. 9.30pm including an interval.
Time
(Saturday) 7:30 pm
30may3:00 pmWiFi Wars (matinée)The live comedy gaming show
Event Details
Thursday 30th May 2024 at 3.00pm Doors open at 2.30pm Tickets: £12 / £10 (18 and under) Tickets are available
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Thursday 30th May 2024 at 3.00pm
Doors open at 2.30pm
Tickets: £12 / £10 (18 and under)
Tickets are available HERE
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
WiFi Wars is the live comedy family gaming show where you all play along. Log in with your smartphone or tablet and compete in a range of games, puzzles and quizzes to win the show, and prizes!
Hosted by comedian Steve McNeil (team captain on UK TV’s hit comedy/gaming show Dara Ó’Briain’s Go 8 Bit) and aided by Guinness World-Record-Breaking tech whizz, the award-winning Rob Sedgebeer.
As featured in Time Out’s Critic’s Choice, The Times’ Hot List and Metro’s Top Ten London Geek Nights Out.
Watch the YouTube trailer here
Recommended for ages 6+ (matinee)
Website: www.wifiwars.co.uk
Twitter: @WiFiWarsUK
The event lasts approximately 90 minutes including an interval
Time
(Thursday) 3:00 pm
30may7:00 pmWiFi Wars (evening show)The live comedy gaming show
Event Details
Thursday 30th May 2024 at 7.00pm Doors open at 6.30pm Tickets: £12 / £10 (18 and under) Tickets are available
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Thursday 30th May 2024 at 7.00pm
Doors open at 6.30pm
Tickets: £12 / £10 (18 and under)
Tickets are available HERE
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
WiFi Wars is the live comedy family gaming show where you all play along. Log in with your smartphone or tablet and compete in a range of games, puzzles and quizzes to win the show, and prizes!
Hosted by comedian Steve McNeil (team captain on UK TV’s hit comedy/gaming show Dara Ó’Briain’s Go 8 Bit) and aided by Guinness World-Record-Breaking tech whizz, the award-winning Rob Sedgebeer.
As featured in Time Out’s Critic’s Choice, The Times’ Hot List and Metro’s Top Ten London Geek Nights Out.
Watch the YouTube trailer here
Recommended for ages 12+ (evening performance)
Website: www.wifiwars.co.uk
Twitter: @WiFiWarsUK
The event lasts approximately 90 minutes including an interval
Time
(Thursday) 7:00 pm
june
02jun7:30 pmFolkEast presents: Wakefire - a midsummer celebrationA midsummer folk music celebration
Event Details
Sunday 2nd June 2023 at 7.30pm Doors & bar open at 6.45pm Tickets: £18 (plus booking fee) Tickets are available
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Sunday 2nd June 2023 at 7.30pm
Doors & bar open at 6.45pm
Tickets: £18 (plus booking fee)
Tickets are available HERE
Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith – the team behind Awake Arise! – present a show in development – a new show that is an essential incantation to the summertime and all that it holds.
On the longest day of the year, anything can happen… Lady Maisery and Jimmy Aldridge & Sid Goldsmith invite you into their next alchemic collaboration!
Having bewitched and galvanised audiences through many cold Decembers with their much loved wintertime tour ‘Awake Arise’, which twice sold out St George’s in Bristol and filled venues around the country, “two of the most engaging and inventive acts on the current folk scene” (FRUK) return with a brand new show for the summer!
With more folk songs historically collected about May than about any other time apart from Christmas, the charismatic 5-piece embark on a journey to mark this season in song. And being the kind of artists they are, ‘as I walked out…’ is just the beginning. There is of course morris, mayday, migration and magic. There is also ritual, rave and cider with Rosie. There are countryside hares and city foxes. There is the fear for our warming planet alongside the promise of ripening fruit. There is class struggle, cuckoo calls, beaches and barbecues. As with their celebrated winter work, the Awake Arise show is an essential incantation to the summertime and all that it holds.
Award winning trio Lady Maisery (Hannah James, Rowan Rheingans and Hazel Askew) have for nearly a decade produced some of the most exquisite, thrilling vocal harmony work in the English folk scene (The Guardian)
The beguiling musical partnership of Jimmy Aldridge and Sid Goldsmith complete the powerful line-up, bringing the outstanding vocals, sensitive instrumentation and powerful social conscience that has won them widespread critical acclaim. Rousing stuff The Observer.
Presented by FolkEast
www.ladymaisery.com
www.jimmyandsidduo.com
www.alanbearmanmusic.co.uk
The performance ends approx. 9.45pm including an interval.
Time
(Sunday) 7:30 pm
29jun7:30 pmThe FugitivesFolk-roots & Americana from all-star Vancouver collective
Event Details
Saturday 29th June 2023 at 7.30pm Doors & bar open at 7.00pm Tickets: £18 Tickets are available HERE By phoning
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Saturday 29th June 2023 at 7.30pm
Doors & bar open at 7.00pm
Tickets: £18
Tickets are available HERE
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
From Vancouver, a folk-roots collective with a reputation for their scintillating live shows. “They bring enough energy to the stage to light up a small city… writes their home-town paper “the quartet conjures up a sound that’s like the missing link between Leonard Cohen and the Pogues”
Songwriters Adrian Glynn and Brendan McLeod, joined by banjo player Chris Suen (Viper Central) and violinist Carly Frey (The Coal Porters), create a sound that’s a beguiling bedrock of traditional roots and Americana with lyrics that are unafraid to tackle the biggest issues of today. Nowhere more so than in their latest album No Help Coming. A quirky, compelling collection of songs about the complexities of the everyday – of families, partners and friendships – it is set against the ever-present clarion call of climate change “There’s still a tendency to create in a vacuum,” they say, “to write a love song as if our province wasn’t engulfed in smoke”.
Their previous album Trench Songs was nominated for a prestigious JUNO Award for Traditional Roots Album of the Year and they’ve spread their alluring blend of complex harmonies, captivating story-telling and top-notch musicianship across the globe, from Western Europe to North America’s West Coast, British Columbia to Britain.
Catch them on their only East Anglian date on an extensive UK tour.
Listen to excerpts from the new album here
The performance ends approx. 9.30pm including an interval.
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(Saturday) 7:30 pm
november
Event Details
Friday 1st November 2024 at 7.30pm Doors & bar open at 7.00pm Tickets: £15 (21 and under £10) Tickets are
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Friday 1st November 2024 at 7.30pm
Doors & bar open at 7.00pm
Tickets: £15 (21 and under £10)
Tickets are available HERE
By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.
The year is 1900 – the dawn of a new century. Young Jack Grimes arrives to take up his post as assistant to the keeper of the Toll Point Light, off the coast of East Anglia.
Isaac Troop has been keeper at Toll Point for 20 years, without the need of an assistant. His self-imposed solitude is threatened by the new arrival – is he there to assist or to replace him?
Guessing that his bosses at Trinity House have doubts about his mental fitness, he hesitates to tell Grimes about the other inhabitant of the lighthouse, as that would likely mean the end of his career. But Isaac is not the only one disturbed by the newcomer…
Ghost of The Toll Point Light, in the context of a good old-fashioned ghost story, also explores questions around why people seek seclusion, as a means of escape or of atonement, or as a way of finding peace or achieving enlightenment.
A play with music in two acts.
The performance ends at approximately 9.45pm including an interval
Time
(Friday) 7:30 pm
About the Hall
Nestling in the heart of the seaside town of Aldeburgh in Suffolk sits the historic and much-loved Jubilee Hall. Built in 1887 by local businessman Newson Garrett to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee, the hall was intended for “concerts and dramatic entertainments provided by well-known artistes, dances for the little people on wet afternoons and for ‘the grown-ups’ in the evenings”. Ever since then the hall has offered an array of musical and dramatic performances, both amateur and professional and has also served the community as a film-theatre, dance-hall, badminton court and roller-skating rink. The Jubilee Hall is nothing if not adaptable.
At Jubilee Hall we are ambitious for our building and what goes on within it, ensuring we not only survive, but thrive, for decades to come. We work in partnership in Aldeburgh, Suffolk and beyond, from schools to businesses, from community groups to performing artists, providing excellence balanced by diversity in both programming and activities.
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A Brief History
The Jubilee Hall gained unexpected fame in 1948 when local residents Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears chose it as a venue for their ‘Festival of Music and the Arts’. In 1960 the first ever performance of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream was given in the hall, and since then many notable opera premières have taken place there, such as Britten’s The Little Sweep, William Walton’s The Bear and Harrison Birtwistle’s Punch and Judy. Although the main venue of the Aldeburgh Festival has moved to Snape Maltings, many of the Festival events continue to take place in the Jubilee Hall.
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