Wednesday 20th November 2024 at 6.00pm

Doors open at 5.30pm

Tickets: £4

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

This lecture will examine the history of the Atlantic slave trade and its abolition in Britain. It will explain the origins and causes of anti-slavery at the end of the eighteenth century and consider the individuals and groups who led it in Britain. We shall examine both the abolition of the slave trade in 1807 and the emancipation of slaves in the British empire in 1833. Why did Britain come first in the history of anti-slavery? Why was the movement ultimately successful? But why did it take so long?

Professor Lawrence Goldman taught the history of American slavery and emancipation in Oxford for three decades where he specialised in Modern British and American History.  He is the former director the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography and of the Institute of Historical Research, University of London.

The event ends at approximately 7.15pm.

Saturday 23rd November 2024, 10.00am – 2.00pm

Free entry

In association with Aldeburgh Town Council.

Come to our Christmas Craft Fair, for fine Christmas crafts, fine Suffolk food and artisan produce.

Discover all kinds of local craft and food makers who come to sell their produce direct to you. This is a friendly market offering an excellent range of high-quality local products.

Festive refreshments will be served.

Stall holders

If you are interested in booking a stall, please contact sam@aldeburghtowncouncil.co.uk

We are open to crafters who operate within a 25-mile radius of Aldeburgh.

No re-sellers please, only primary producers.

Spaces will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, and crafters may be put on a waiting list dependant on other confirmed stall holders and what they offer.

Saturday 23rd November 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.

As seen on BBC The One Show, the Sounds of Simon is a tribute to the wonderful music of Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, through their years as Simon and Garfunkel, to the successes of both their solo careers.  Exploring the friendship of one of the greatest and most distincitve musical duos that produced songs such as Mrs Robinson, The Sounds of Silence and Bridge Over Troubled Water, the band cover the pair’s solo careers (ou Can Call Me Al, Graceland, and Art’s smash hit, Bright Eyes.) 

Paul and Art are played to perfection, bringing in elements of their famously fractious relationship, as well as replicating the beautiful harmonies flawlessly. With video clips, stories and memories from over a half century of music-making, this multi-media show is packed with wonderful music. 

This is the UK’s longest running tribute to Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel, and with its mix of brilliant musicianship, nostalgia and a genuine affection for two stellar musicians, it’s easy to see why. 

www.soundsofsimon.co.uk 

The performance ends at approx. 9.45pm including an interval. 

Seating for this event is arranged as tables at the front of the hall, with tiered seating behind. 

Sunday 1st December 2024 at 2.30pm & 5pm

Doors & bar open at 2pm and 4.30pm

Tickets: £15 / £7.50

Tickets for 2.30pm show are available HERE

Tickets for 5pm show are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

‘The Selfish Giant’

Story by Oscar Wilde

Music by Jonathan Rathbone

When the Giant bans all children from his garden, Summer never comes. Until one day, a strange boy appears, and nothing is quite the same again.

&

‘The Pied Piper of Hamelin’

Text by Robert Browning

Music by Jonathan Willcocks

The Town of Hamelin is infested by rats, but what can the Townsfolk do? Until one day, a stranger appears, and nothing is quite the same again.

The children of Jubilee Opera with

Robert Davies The Giant

Katherine Macrae The Pied Piper

Jenny Hall Narrator

&

Ben Parry Conductor

with Jubilee Opera Ensemble

and a group of children from local primary schools

Jubilee Opera was formed in 1987 as a result of a production of Britten’s ‘Noye’s Fludde’ in Aldeburgh Church, the first time it had been performed there. Such was the enthusiasm in the local community that it was decided to start an opera company for young aspiring performers to work with professionals on productions of the highest possible quality and standard. The aim was to give children, with little opportunity elsewhere, the chance to discover their own abilities and to develop their musical and performance skills, thus engendering a lifelong love of the performance arts. This is what lies at the heart of Jubilee Opera’s ethos.

jubileeopera.co.uk

The performance last for approximately 75 minutes, including a 15-minute interval.

Saturday 7th December 2024 at 4.00pm

Doors & bar open at 3.30pm

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.

Hauntingly atmospheric story-songs for a midwinter’s night. 

The Furrow Collective is a much-loved all-star folk quartet with a unique take on traditional music of England, Scotland and beyond.  With each member an established songwriter, singer and instrumentalist they have crafted a distinctive blend of haunting vocals and string-based instrumentals.  

A decade since their first full-length album, they bring songs from their substantial back catalogue but focus on songs from their most recent album We Know by the Moon, a lunar-themed album of songs set after dark.  “The moon, the stars, darkness and night are threads woven through these songs” they say – “songs to be listened to after dark, by candlelight, firelight, or under the steady light of our constant lunar companion.” 

Their signature sound – exquisite, keening vocals, rich harmonies, understated instrumental accompaniment – is perfect for these captivating story-songs, drawing us in closer to the songs, traditions and culture of our islands. 

The Furrow Collective are Lucy Farrell (viola, voice & saw), Rachel Newton (harp, fiddle, voice), Emily Portman (banjo, concertina, voice) and Alasdair Roberts (guitars, voice). They won 2017 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards ‘Best Group’ and tour extensively throughout the UK as well as in mainland Europe, delighting audiences with their beguiling approach to traditional song. 

The performance ends at approx. 9.45pm including an interval. 

Seating for this event is arranged as tables at the front of the hall, with tiered seating behind.

Friday 13th December 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.

Star vocalist Joanna Eden and the Chris Ingham Quartet celebrate the season in style with jazzy festive favourites, as featured on the silver screen sung by Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin and a host of others. 

The show has sold out Ronnie Scott’s annually for over a decade and is now established as an Aldeburgh Christmas fixture.  The set-list and arrangements may change but the spirit remains the same.  It’s an evening packed with great music, sophisticated swing, superb vocal and instrumental talent, sparkling with an infectious, palpable joy.   

The UK’s answer to Norah Jones and Diana Krall Time Out on Joanna Eden 

Seek her out! Michael Parkinson 

One of the finest combos in the country and a seriously talented vocalist..a great evening that satisfied both jazz and movie buffs. Quite a trick. Jazz Journal 

The performance ends at approx. 9.45pm including an interval

The seating is a mix of tables at the front and tiered seating.

Saturday 14th December 2024 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £25

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Live on stage, television favourites Colin Baker (Doctor Who, The Brothers) and Peter Purves (Blue Peter, The Office) lead the cast in a new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ Christmas classic. 

“He was a tight-fisted hand at the grindstone, Scrooge – a squeezing, grasping, covetous, old sinner!” 

On Christmas Eve, Ebenezer Scrooge is warned by the ghost of his late partner, Jacob Marley, that he will be visited by three Spirits – Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet To Come. Together they whisk Scrooge to the past and his happy boyhood Christmastimes, to the present to meet Tiny Tim at Bob Cratchit’s Christmas feast, and finally to the future and Scrooge’s own miserable grave – all attempting to show him the error of his ways. But will Scrooge wake on Christmas morning a changed man? 

Presented by the Crime And Comedy Theatre Company as a radio-play-live-on-stage, our setting is a radio studio, our actors ready as if for a radio broadcast, and our sound effects created live, transporting us to Victorian London for this 180th anniversary production of Dickens’ timeless tale of charity, forgiveness and redemption. 

The performance ends at approx. 9.15pm including an interval. 

Friday 20th December 2024 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £15 (21 and under £12)

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Following in the fine festive tradition of telling ghostly stories by the fireside, this is an evening of haunting, dark delights set during Christmastide. Our night of seasonal spirits features terrors from some of the finest authors of their age… W. W. Jacobs, Algernon Blackwood and A. M. Burrage.  

In Jerry Bundler patrons gather in a London tavern at Christmastime swapping traditionally terrifying ghost stories, only to discover the establishment itself is haunted.  In Smee some festive parlour games are just the thing to raise some spirits. But it’s always wise to know how many people are hiding in the house before you start trying to seek them.  And finally, in The Kit-Bag packing for the Christmas holidays takes a turn for the worse as a young lawyer finds his recent gruesome trial comes back to haunt him. Bone chilling tales to conjure the spirits of Christmas…  

A one-man performance, directed and haunted by Matthew Wood.

Suitable for ages 10 and above.

Presented by Edwrydian Tales 

The performance ends at approx. 8.50pm. There is no interval.

Wednesday 1st – Thursday 2nd January 2025

Wednesday 1st January 2025, 4.00pm – tickets available HERE

Wednesday 1st January 2025 7.30pm – tickets available HERE

Thursday 2nd January 2025 4.00pm – tickets available HERE

Thursday 2nd January 2025 7.30pm – tickets available HERE

Tickets: £16 (21 and under £10)

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

The Suffolk village of Dangleford is hanging by a thread! As Xmas approaches, its veneer of civility is cracking, like last year’s Yule Log. A series of poison pen letters, signed “The Christmas Fairy”, threaten to expose corruption at the heart of village life. As the mulled wine simmers, old grudges reach boiling point. Even Father Brown’s renowned frosted plums may fail to get the party going! He must use all his wits to stop the midwinter madness snow- balling into… a snowball of terror!

Common Ground present another of their much-loved festive comedy mysteries.

Common Ground Theatre Company have been touring the Eastern region for many years now with their unique brand of music theatre.

“One of the best things on the road in East Anglia right now, the ever-inventive Common Ground…pathos, humanity and dry humour. A proper treat.” – Libby Purves

The performance lasts for approx two hours including an interval.

Saturday 1st February 2025 at 11.00am

Doors open at 10.30am

Tickets: £10 (including a free tea or coffee)

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Charlie Haylock is one of Suffolk’s leading media figures and entertainers.  

An Eccentric Look at Suffolk is unique, hilarious and entertaining look at goings on in rural Suffolk,  characterised by Charlie’s rustic storytelling and informed by a lifetime’s experience of the county and its residents.  He explores Suffolk’s traditions, humour, the accent – and the way Old Suffolkers can just look at people and know exactly what the other is thinking.  

Charlie’s regular slot on BBC Radio Suffolk has made him an instantly recognisable voice and source of wisdom.  He has also been the East Anglian Daily Times’ cartoonist, and was notably the dialect coach for Ralph Fiennes – and others – on the 2021 Netflix hit The Dig, the multiple BAFTA-nominated film telling the story of the Sutton Hoo excavations. 

A sideways look at Suffolk through the voice of its people, explaining a few spoken oddities and why they might not be so odd after all…. 

The event ends at approximately 12.15pm.

Thursday 20th February 2025, 2.00pm to 4.00pm

Doors open at 2.00pm

Entry is free but space is limited so please book tickets here

Come and get creative at Brickologists’ Fun Day with Lego including a timed Brickoff LEGO Challenge with prizes for the best model, a ‘free build’ area, Bionicles, Duplo, car building with  downhill racetracks and a mini figure hunt with prizes. 

The Brickoff Lego Challenge is open to everybody from 4 – 99+ with prizes going to the best models made.  Please note adult supervision is required during the event 

​Everyone who takes part will go home with a small something!

All Lego prizes are donated by Brickologists, Young Engineers.  

Further information here FUN DAYS WITH LEGO | brickologists  

Thursday 6th February – Sunday 9th March 2025

A varied and interesting programme of talks and interviews on a wide range of topics covering social history, economics, biography and fiction.

Programme announce and tickets on sale from early January only from The Aldeburgh Bookshop - www.aldeburghbookshop.co.uk. 

Presented by Aldeburgh Bookshop 

Saturday 5th April 2025 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.

Brentwood Mac is a charismatic band dedicated to bringing the timeless melodies of Fleetwood Mac to life. Their repertoire spans all eras of Fleetwood Mac, and their attention to detail in capturing the nuances of each era ensures an authentic and unforgettable experience for audiences.    

From the haunting vocals of Stevie Nicks to the driving rhythms of Mick Fleetwood, Brentwood Mac pays homage to every member of Fleetwood Mac. Whether you’re a fan or a new listener, Brentwood Mac promises a night of captivating music that’s sure to leave you wanting more!  

Following a string of sell-out shows, early booking is essential! 

The performance ends at approx. 9.45pm including an interval. 

Sunday 6th April 2025 at 2.30pm

Doors & bar open at 2.00pm

Tickets: £15 (students and under 16s free)

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

The Suffolk Concert Band is looking forward to playing at the Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall with great anticipation.  They bring a programme entitled Commemorate and Celebrate.  The former is marking the end of hostilities in 1945 and will include a rare performance of William Alwyn’s Desert Victory.  The work is from music written for the film of the same name about the success of the Allies over Rommel and the Afrika Korps in North Africa in 1943.  The celebratory element of the programme will bring the very best scores from musical theatre to the concert platform and includes music from the recently released film of Wicked. 

Military themes are familiar to the Suffolk Concert Band which can trace its roots back via the Suffolk and Cambridgeshire Territorial Regimental Band to the Suffolk Regiment.  It is said that soldiers of the Suffolk Regiment (XII Foot) picked red and yellow roses to wear in their hats as they marched to the battle of Minden in 1759. The battle resulted in victory for the British and became a regimental battle honour.  Those red and yellow hues feature in the recently refreshed jackets worn by the band. 

The band is delighted to welcome Duke Dobing back to direct at this concert.  Duke brings incredible experience and insight to the repertoire from his long career as Principal Flute of the City of London Sinfonia and as a soloist throughout the UK and internationally.  He last directed the band in 2017 and at the time was instrumental in guiding its musical course during that fiftieth anniversary year helping launch their celebratory CD recording SCB at 50. 

This springtime concert will be the Suffolk Concert Band’s first public performance in 2025 and the first outing since their recording with BBC Radio Suffolk’s Christmas Show broadcast on Christmas Day. 

This concert has been made possible with the generous support of The William Alwyn Foundation.  

www.suffolkconcertband.org.uk
www.williamalwyn.co.uk 

The performance ends at approximately 4.30pm 

Presented by Suffolk Concert Band 

Friday 11th April 2025 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.

Appearances TV shows including Live At The Apollo and Have I Got News For You makes Ignacio the most recognisable…but perhaps the only Welsh-Spanish standup.  His family is made up of Spanish, Welsh, Irish, Moroccan, and Germans. Family get-togethers are like a meeting of the UN.   

Droll, deadpan, charming and charismatic, his sharp, warm and honest material has led to his videos receiving over 100 million views worldwide. It’s easy to see why.  There’s no-one better placed to point out the foibles and idiosyncrasies of the British than this charming insider/outsider and audiences can’t seem to get enough of him. Branded Spain’s Best Export by the Spanish Embassy and Office of Culture in the UK, he is one of the British scene’s fastest-rising stars.  

Support comes from Ant Dewson, comedian-singer-pianist and Alexis Roy, with her refreshingly unique slant on parenthood, marriage and increasingly awkward family encounters. Compered by Aldeburgh Comedy Club’s own genial host Louie Green, this is a packed evening of the very best stand-up comedy. 

The seating is a mix of tables/chairs at the front, and raked seating towards the back of the auditorium.

The performance lasts 2 hrs 15 mins including two intervals. 

Saturday 12th April 2025 at 8.00pm

Doors & bar open at 7.30pm

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.

With exact replica instruments and costumes Imagine…The Beatles adopt the sound, look and even the persona of each of the Fab Four.  Faithfully recreating all the biggest hits they take us on a journey from the early Cavern days, through Beatlemania and onto Abbey Rd – a Magical Mystery Tour you won’t want to miss.  

The event ends approx. 10.15pm (incl. interval).