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.

Friday 31st January 2025 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.

Each Friday from January to April 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.

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.

Friday 7th February 2025 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.

Each Friday from January to April 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.

Friday 14th February 2025 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.

Each Friday from January to April 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.

Tuesday 18th October 2025, 10.30am to 12.30pm

Doors open at 10.00am

Tickets: free entry, but register your interest HERE

Let’s get singing this half-term!

Join award-winning singer, choir leader, and educator Tom Appleton this half term at Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall for a vocal workshop suitable for singers of all ages and abilities.

With music to suit all tastes, high-quality vocal warm-ups, Tom’s infectious enthusiasm and humour, and support from pianist Jonathan Rutherford this promises to be a family-friendly event not to be missed.

The two-hour workshop is free to attend and will culminate in an informal presentation – to which friends and family are very welcome to come – at 12.10pm.

Open to all, but we ask that any under 18s are accompanied by an adult at all times (who are welcome to sing or watch!).

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  

Friday 21st February 2025 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.

Each Friday from January to April 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.

Friday 28th February 2025 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.

Each Friday from January to April 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.

Friday 28th February 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.

Budapest Café Orchestra play gypsy and folk-flavoured music in a refreshingly unique way. Evoking vivid images of fiddle maestros, Budapest café life and gypsy campfires it’s a hugely entertaining blend of virtuosity, profound musicianship and infectious energy.   

With 15 albums to their name, the quartet create an astonishing soundscape and aural alchemy combining violin, guitar, accordion, double bass, saz, balalaika, domra and percussion to dazzling effect. Whether in Hungarian, Balkan and Russian traditional music or their artful distillations of Romantic masterworks to soaring Gaelic folk anthems, BCO is a musical experience like no other. It is enough to make you want to book that holiday down the Danube!    

Two of the country’s celebrated international soloists revel at the heart of proceedings. Accordionist Eddie Hession is a supreme accordion champion of Great Britain. In his illustrious career he has accompanied Luciano Pavarotti, Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Chris Rea.  Christian Garrick is one of the world’s most celebrated jazz violinists. He has played music with Dame Cleo Laine & Sir John Dankworth, Wynton Marsalis, Nigel Kennedy, Bireli Lagrene, Tim Minchin, Caro Emerald and John Etheridge. They are joined by one of Russia’s most enigmatic musical exports, Adrian Zolotuhin – a master of the strummed strings of domra, balalaika, guitar and saz – and veteran bassist Kelly Cantlon who first found fame with Northern Soul sensations Jimmy James and the Vagabonds.   

“Not so much a band as a whole genre of its own, Budapest Café Orchestra embraces an encyclopaedia of music and mischief.”  The Scotsman 

“the fiery vivacity and awe-inspiring musicianship of the finest purveyors of Eastern European gypsy music this side of a Lada scrap heap will leave you with a grin on your face and rhythm in your feet…”  The TImes 

The performance ends at approx. 9.30pm including an interval. 

Wednesday 5th March 2025 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.

Singer and instrumentalist, actor and presenter Paul Jones has been a household name since the 1960s.  He was lead singer for Manfred Mann, founder and leader of The Blues Band, star of stage and screen and presenter of the BBC Radio 2 Blues programme for 32 years. He is the voice of worldwide hits Do Wah Diddy Diddy, 5-4-3-2-1 and Pretty Flamingo.  He still tours regularly with former bandmates as The Manfreds. 
 
Joined by the all-star band of guitarist Denny Ilett (a regular at Ronnie Scott’s with his Electric Lady Big Band) plus Jazz@Jubilee regulars Jim Watson (keyboards) and George Double (drums), Paul presents an intimate evening of rhythm and blues classics, original material and gems from the Manfred Mann and Blues Band back catalogues.  For blues & jazz fans this is an unmissable visit from  one of the great blues musicians. 

The performance ends at approximately 9.30pm including an interval. 

Seating for this event is arranged as a mixture of raked seating, and cabaret tables on the flat.

Thursday 6th to 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 

Friday 14th March 2025 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.

Each Friday from January to April 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.

Friday 21st March 2025 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.

Each Friday from January to April 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.

Saturday 22nd March 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.

“Why not make our own festival?  Why not have an Aldeburgh Festival”.  Peter Pears’ words are inscribed on our doors.  It was a suggestion readily embraced by his partner Benjamin Britten and from its inception in 1948, Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall was at the centre of this remarkable undertaking.   For the Festival’s first two decades, before the construction of Snape Maltings Concert Hall, it was the Festival’s major venue, and continued to play a significant part thereafter.  These walls have ears; the hall  played host to an array of events including premieres of Britten’s music and an astonishing array of some of the leading figures in twentieth century music.  Dr Nicholas Clark, Librarian at Britten’s former home The Red House, traces the history of Britten, Pears and Aldeburgh Jubilee Hall, the music they performed here and their notable musical guests. 

The event ends at approximately 12.00pm.

Friday 28th March 2025 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.

Each Friday from January to April 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.

Friday 4th April 2025 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.

Each Friday from January to April 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.

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 

Thursday 10th April 2025, 2.00 – 4.30pm

Doors open at 1.30pm

Tickets: £5

Tickets are available HERE

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

Create your own short animated film in an afternoon.  Unleash your imagination and harness the power of stop-motion animation with a taster session from Suffolk’s I Made This.  Suitable for children 8-18, materials including software, screens and laptops are provided and a team of experts and educators are on hand to guide you in all things animation.  Participants will be able to take away their work on a memory stick to keep. 

Tickets should be booked for children only. Adults can drop children and collect at 4.30pm, or stay to watch if they wish. The cafe will be open for refreshments. 

Friday 11th April 2025 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.

Each Friday from January to April 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.

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).

Saturday 19th April 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.

From the howling winds of Skye to the fen-sucked fogs of East Anglia, explore the power and beauty of British weather in all its wild and stormy forms. 

In All Weathers takes us from the howling winds of Skye to the fen-sucked fogs of East Anglia, as Matt Gaw embarks on a series of walks across Britain – through rain, fog, wind, ice and snow – to look again at our most widely accessed experience of the natural world. He explores the science of weather, the ways it is changing, its impact on our psychology and culture, and how we can embrace it as a positive presence in our lives.  

It’s time to throw open the doors, window and soul to the inspiring wildness of weather. 

The event ends at approximately 12.00pm.

Friday 25th 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.

Roger McGough, President of the Poetry Society not only helped kickstart the musical careers of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix, but inspired hundreds, if not thousands of young poets (well, quite a few), on their poetic journeys. 

87 years old and at that awkward age now between birth and death, he puts on a brave face and takes to the stage with a show featuring new poems as well as old favourites. 

The show takes audiences on a journey back to key moments of his life. McGough reflects on his Liverpool childhood just before World War II, with memories and poems including The Full English, The Overall Winner and Learning to Read. Memories of his mum and dad are told through poems The Railing and What Does Your Father Do, and some are a throwback to the ’60s, namely The Beatles and Top of the Pops. 

New verses have been added for Lily the Pink, which take a playful update on the 1968 classic by The Scaffold. As well as laughs, there will be poems about growing old. A Joy to be Old, A Cure for Ageing and Let me Die an Old Man’s Death, which aptly round up the new show. 

Roger will be signing copies of the 2024 release The Collected Poems after the performance. 

“This triumphant anthology stuns with its sheer variety…There is something here for everyone” The Guardian on The Collected Poems 1959-2024 

“McGough is a true original and more than one generation would be much the poorer without him.” The Times 

“The patron saint of poetry.” Carol Ann Duffy 

The performance ends at approx. 9.30pm including an interval.