Saturday 24th May 2025

7.30pm (Doors & Bar open at 7pm)

Tickets: £15

Tickets available HERE

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

There is nothing quite like the sound of a Big Band.

Horn Factory perform an impressive and extensive range of contemporary big band jazz by composers such as Buddy Rich, , Maynard Ferguson, James Morrison, Bobby Shew, Thelonious Monk, Chuck Mangione, Chick Corea and many more!

An evening of fast moving, hard hitting, toe tapping jazz from a spectacular 18-piece big band that features soloists and ensemble players from around East Anglia.

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

Monday 26th May, 2pm

Doors open at 1.30pm

Tickets: £12/£15 available HERE

Friday 30th May, 7.00pm

Doors open at 6.30pm

Tickets: £8 available HERE

Saturday 31st May, 7.30pm

Doors open at 7pm

Tickets £15 available HERE

A DOLL’S HOUSE, PART 2

BY LUCAS HNATH

At the end of Ibsen’s classic, ground breaking 1879 play, A Doll’s House Nora walks out on her marriage, home and young children.

Playwright Lucas Hnath builds on Ibsen’s seminal work by imagining what happens when Nora returns years later with an urgent request.

Old School Theatre Company presents Hnath’s rich, stand alone sequel, eloquently exploring traditional gender roles and social class still inherent in today’s society.

A Doll’s House, Part 2 received its UK premiere at the Donmar Warehouse, London in 2022.

Tickets available through the links above, by phoning 01728 454022, or in person Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 10-12pm at the AJH corner office.

Saturday 7th June 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.

Wendy Holden, also sometimes known as Taylor Holden, is an experienced author and novelist with more than thirty books published, fifteen of which are bestsellers. She has also had numerous works transferred to radio and television, and four of her books have been optioned for film.

The Teacher of Auschwitz, Holden’s latest book, tells the remarkable true story of Fredy Hirsch, a young, gay, German Jewish prisoner who defied the Nazis daily at great personal risk to protect the thousands of children in his care.

At the dark heart of the Holocaust, there was a wooden hut whose walls were painted with cartoons; a place where children sang, staged plays and wrote poetry. Safely inside, but still in the shadow of the chimneys, they were given better food, kept free of vermin, and were even taught meditation to imagine full stomachs and a day without fear. The man who became their guiding light was a young Jewish prisoner named Fredy Hirsch.

The event ends at approximately 12.15pm.

Saturday 7th June 2025

7.30pm (Doors & Bar open at 7pm)

Tickets: £20

Tickets available HERE

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

“One of the tiny handful of undeniably perfect jazz musicians” The Observer

Saxophonist Art Themen has been an engaging and inventive presence on the British jazz circuit for over 60 years. This living legend has played in the bands of Alexis Korner and Stan Tracey as well as on recordings with Joe Cocker, Jack Bruce and even Bing Crosby. Recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Worshipful Company of Musicians and shortlisted for the Jazz Instrumentalist of the year in the recent Parliamentary Jazz Awards, he remains as brilliant and inimitable as ever, with his trio featuring organist Pete Whittaker, formerly of The Nigel Price Organ Trio, and drummer George Double who has worked as sideman to Shirley Bassey and Jack Jones. The band’s groove-led re-imaginings of quirky curiosities from the jazz canon are a perfect vehicle for the twinkly mischief of this genuine grandee of British jazz and have delighted crowds at major London jazz venues including Ronnie Scotts, and across the UK. The Trio’s third album Live In Soho is released on Ubuntu Music and captures a magical night at PizzaExpressLive in Dean Street in August 2023.

For tonight’s concert, the trio are joined by pianist Jim Watson. Jim is co-promoter of Jazz@Jubilee and has worked with Sting, the BBC Big Band, the BBC’s ‘Strictly’ band and of course…Wet, Wet, Wet.

“A perfectly melded unit… A masterclass in tenor technique” Jazz Journal
“One of the most distinguished trios on Britain’s scene today” Jazz Rag
“the total performance a joy” Jazzwise

Watch the trio in action here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdANh6fOqvI

Monday 16th June 2025 at 10.30am 

Doors open at 10am

Tickets: £15, £12.50; under 30s half price

Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE

A fascinating morning of expert discussion and creative writing inspired by the idea of North, and the music of Helen Grime and Gavin Higgins that brings it to life.

… I come
From a land of poems trudged across the fells
Like coffins … (Katie Hale, from Offcomer)

In a special conversation chaired by Northumbria University historian Professor Julian Wright, Gavin Higgins will be joined by artists including poet Katrina Porteous and singer Claire Booth to discuss the way words and music have come together in this new song book, and to continue the conversation about our contemporary sense of northern-ness and the notions of living at the margins.

In Gavin Higgins’ new work Speak of the North, poetry and music are woven with the sound of the folk violin – the Hardanger fiddle which once inspired the Norwegian composer Grieg in his exploration of the sound world of historic Norway. Inspired by the way Grieg deepened his appreciation of landscape and history through folk resonance, Claire Booth and Christopher Glynn asked Gavin to develop a new English song book, one that resonates in its own folk-inspired sound world, seeking out the rhythm and beauty of a contemporary English north and bringing that to life in words and music.

With its beautifully curated selection of contemporary poetry, the song book explores “northern-ness” as we might find it at the borders of England, in the derelict farms or mines of the Pennines, or the lonely heart of northern towns. This is a world where our minds are drawn to the border, to places where our own solitariness aches for space and music.

Claire Booth soprano
Gavin Higgins composer
Katrina Porteous poet
Prof Julian Wright historian

Friday 20th June 2025 at 11am 

Doors open at 10.30am

Tickets: £23, £17.50; under 30s half price

Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE

Thursday 26th June 2025 at 10.30am 

Doors open at 10am

Tickets: £15, £12.50; under 30s half price

Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE

Friday 27th June 2025 at 11am 

Doors open at 10.30am

Tickets: £23, £17.50; under 30s half price

Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE

Saturday 28th June at 11am

Doors open at 10.30am

Tickets: Free; booking is essential

Tickets are available from Britten Pears Arts’ website HERE

Saturday 28th June at 3pm

Doors open at 2.30pm

Tickets: Free; booking is essential

Tickets are available from the Britten Pears Arts website HERE

Recorder players of all ages and abilities: come and take part in this workshop, led by Rebecca Austen-Brown.

The workshop is about the joy of sharing music and playing together, and there will be parts and options for all abilities. Feel free to bring your own instrument, though descant recorders will be available for all to use for free.

The event celebrates the 70th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s Alpine Suite, which Britten wrote in 1955 while holidaying in the Swiss mountain resort of Zermatt with Peter Pears and the artist Mary Potter. Mary Potter fell and injured her leg on the first day of the holiday, so was confined to the hotel. Pears, Potter and Britten were competent recorderists, so the composer felt that a short piece of music for three recorders (2 descant and 1 treble) that the three of them could play, would be a good idea. And so it was created.

In partnership with The Early Music Shop.

Friday 11th July 2025 at 11.00am

Doors open at 10.30am

Tickets: £15 (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.

A relaxed morning recital featuring musicians from the Prometheus Orchestra.

Jim O’Toole – violin, Jody Hughes – cello, Jonathan Rutherford – piano, Cliff Whybrow – clarinet

Programme to include:
Joseph Haydn Piano Trio in C major (Hob.XV/27)
Robert Schumann Fantaisie-Stücke (Op. 73) for clarinet and piano

The event ends at approximately 12.00 noon.

Friday 11th July, 7.30pm

Doors open at 7pm

Tickets: £15 available HERE

Saturday 12th July 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.

Mike Warner of A Passion for Seafood, is among many things, a seafood & fisheries consultant, food writer and UK seafood ambassador.

With a deep rooted passion for seafood and fish, he continues to work directly with local fishermen and now has his own fishmonger and wholesale fish merchants shop at Grange Farm, Hasketon.

Join us to hear about his life transition from agriculture to seafood, Suffolk’s fishing industry, explore what our coastline can offer throughout the year; underpinned with a special reference to the Suffolk Heritage Coast and Aldeburgh in particular.

The event ends at approximately 12.15pm.

21st July – 30th August 2025 

Tickets: from £16

Tickets are available HERE

By phoning 01728 343344, or in person at ACT box office 1-5pm from 7th July.

Monday 21st – Saturday 26th July SEE HOW THEY RUN! By Philip King

Monday 28th July – Saturday 9th August GASLIGHT by Patrick Hamilton

Monday 11th – Saturday 16th August THINGS WE DO FOR LOVE by Alan Ayckbourn

Tuesday 19th – Saturday 30th August WHILE THE SUN SHINES by Terence Rattigan

Friday 5th September 2025 at 11.00am

Doors open at 10.30am

Tickets: £15 (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.

A relaxed morning recital featuring musicians from the Prometheus Orchestra.

The Ward Piano Quartet
Nicholas Ward violin, Kathryn Parry viola, Harriet Bennett cello, Tim Carey piano

Programme:
Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor K. 478
Dvorak Piano Quartet no. 2 in E flat major Opus 87

The event ends at approximately 12.00 noon.

Saturday 20th September 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.

Join beloved printmaker, illustrator, and author Angela Harding to celebrate the arrival of autumn and her new book Falling into Autumn,  part of her seasonal quartet, which takes readers on a journey through the seasons, reflecting Angela’s view as the nature around her transforms and evolves over the months.

Angela will share insights into her creative process, what draws her to the British countryside, and how she translates those observations into her artwork.

This event offers a unique glimpse into the world of an artist inspired by the changing seasons.

Aldeburgh Bookshop will be selling Angela’s books after the talk.

The event ends at approximately 12 noon.

Sunday 28th September 2025 10am – 3pm

Doors open at 10am

Free entry, no booking required

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 Whether you’re dreaming of relaxing on sun-kissed beaches, exploring vibrant cities, or embarking on a luxurious cruise, this is your moment to turn those dreams into reality.

 Don’t miss out on this brilliant opportunity. This fantastic Holiday & Cruise Show is your gateway to discovering travel wonders and creating memories that will last a lifetime. We can’t wait to see you there!

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The event ends at approximately 3pm.

Friday 3rd October 2025 at 7.30pm

Doors open at 7pm

Tickets: £20 (£10 for under 18s & students) 

Tickets are available HERE

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

Reimagining the poetry of Gertrud Kolmar. An immersive musical journey with Professor Julian Marshall.

Beginning in 2007 with the startling discovery of the truly remarkable yet tragically little-known poet Gertrud Kolmar, who perished in Auschwitz in 1943, composer Julian Marshall set out on what has become a deeply involving, transformative creative journey. This has, so far, resulted in five works under the collective name The Welten Project – the seventeen-poem cycle on which all works are based.

In this evening’s presentation, Julian will share the story and process of this project and play a specially curated playlist of music.

Julian says about the event:

‘Towards the end of 2024, I began to feel that an event offering some sort of consolidation and contextualisation of Welten Project works written so far would be worth exploring. I had for some time become aware that from each of the five existing works there could be drawn a kind of distilled, concentrated playlist – a carefully curated compilation that could become a new ‘whole work’ in of itself.

This has now become a reality and I very much look forward to sharing this new endeavour with you – an evening that will take the form of an immersive listener experience prefaced by a short introductory talk and completed with a Q&A session.’

Julian is composer and a professor at the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance (ICMP) in London, England.

You will hear recorded performances from:

James Gilchrist

Melanie Pappenheim

Miranda Ostler

Avigal Tlalim

Louisa Clein

Sophie Harris

Lucy Railton

Raj Bhaumik

Philharmonia Orchestra cellos (sextet)

The Rupa Ensemble

Schoolhouse 6 Ensemble – conducted by Howard Moody

Engineering and mixing by Philip Bagenal and Jonas Persson.

Saturday 4th October 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.

Author and Journalist Simon Barnes talks about his most recent book ‘Spring Is The Only Season’ and some of the ideas involved – love, religion and poetry as well as butterflies, birdsong and climate.

‘Spring is not so much a season as the meaning of life – at least it is to all of us who live in the seasonal lands. I have walked in rainforest, in desert and in the African savannah and that has taught me that there is no greater miracle on earth than the coming of spring.

Spring can be found in birdsong, in the awaking butterflies and in the quickening of the land as the returning light and warmth sparks the growth of plants. Spring can also be found in great festivals of religion, ancient custom and sport. Spring is traditionally the time of love. Spring has been made still more vivid by the greatest artists that ever lived.

And me, I intend to celebrate every  possible aspect of the spring, for, after all, hope springs eternal in the human breast.’

The event ends at approximately 12 noon.

Saturday 4th October 2025 at 7.30pm 

Doors open at 7pm

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.

The year is 1916.
Drawn from two years of Sussex retirement for the funeral of his friend, Dr Watson, Holmes returns to Baker Street to resolve ‘the last act’ of his epic career.
A theatrical evening then unfolds, with fourteen characters, all played by Nigel Miles-Thomas in a tour de force performance.
Cross-examinations, heated arguments between Holmes and Watson, and all manner of comic and serious interactions, between many famous Conan Doyle characters.
As the play concludes, the great detective reveals a shocking secret.

Written by Conan Doyle expert David Stuart Davies, directed by award-winning Gareth Armstrong.

‘Nigel Miles-Thomas plays Holmes with magical candour. Brilliant, Unmissable’ ***** (Noho Arts)
‘A Classy Holmes” **** (The Daily Mail)
‘There is nothing elementary about this production, top class’ *****(Glam)
‘A Firework display of Acting virtuosity’ ***** (Theatre Weekly)

Watch the trailer here 

Sunday 26th October 2025 at 4pm

Doors open at 3.30pm

Tickets: £15 (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.

A relaxed afternoon recital featuring musicians from the Prometheus Orchestra.

English music of the 17th & 18th centuries by William Williams,  Godfrey Finger, Henry Purcell, John Loeillet, Andrew Parcham and William Corbett.

Liz Page – recorder
Caroline Radcliffe – recorder
Jody Hughes – cello
Julian Larkin – harpsichord

The concert will be around 1 hour with no interval.
Tickets: £15 including a free tea or coffee.

Friday 21st November 2025 at 11am

Doors open at 10.30am

Tickets: £15 (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.

A relaxed morning recital featuring musicians from the Prometheus Orchestra.

Neil Carlson – Oboe

Cliff Whybrow – Clarinet

Steve Lock – Bassoon

Kay Dawson – French horn

Jonathan Rutherford – Piano

Programme
Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds in Eb Major K452
Beethoven Quintet for Piano and Winds in Eb major Op.16

The concert will be around 1 hour with no interval.
Tickets: £15 including a free tea or coffee.

Saturday 22nd November 2025 at 7.30pm 

Doors open at 7pm

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.

‘Lime and limpid green, a second scene now fights between the blue you once knew.’

And so, it began back in 1967 and the music of Pink Floyd has continued to intrigue, attract, and delight audiences for almost 60 years.

The Post Floyd Dream is at its nucleus, made up of 7 experienced musicians with a passion for this iconic band, performing the music in a way that will satisfy even the most diehard Pink Floyd fan.

Originally formed in 2015 for a one-off charity event in memory of a musician local to the bands Essex base, the band founding members decided to continue and expand the project. Since then, TPFD has evolved and developed with the current line-up being the most dedicated yet to achieving an authentic tribute to Pink Floyd’s music.

A two and a half hour set of Floyd classics spanning Meddle to The Division Bell including tracks from The Dark Side of the Moon and a few surprises for which mention must go to Pink Floyd’s drummer and founder member Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets touring band.

Audiences will be treated to a full stage show complete with lights, lasers, visuals, sound effects and stunning audio quality.

We look forward to seeing you join us to celebrate the endless river that is the truly amazing Pink Floyd.