Events

Thursday 6th to Sunday 9th November 2025

The Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival returns this year with an expanded four-day line-up, running from Thursday 6 to Sunday 9 November. This year’s theme is “The Book and Beyond” – exploring everything bookish, from the tactile world of paper and print to artists’ books, performance, technology, and poetry’s future.

Saturday’s Gala Reading (8 November) features acclaimed poets Clare Pollard and Richard Scott.

Other featured poets include Patience Agbabi, Fiona Benson and Roger Robinson, alongside an exclusive performance from Caroline Bergvall. The Robin Boyd Memorial Lecture will be given by Ian Patterson on ‘Reading Time and Writing Time’.

Tickets are available from the Poetry in Aldeburgh website HERE

Ticket prices

Festival Pass: £85 (full price) / £50 (concessions)*
Saturday night gala and final Sunday reading: £15 (full price) / £8 (concessions)
All other readings: £10 / £6 (concessions)
Workshops: £25 / £12.50 (concessions)

*Concessions are available only for those 25 years old and under, and those in receipt of Jobseeker’s allowance/Universal Credit, Income support, Housing Benefit, Council tax benefit or Working tax credit.

Friday 14th November 2025 at 6.30pm

Doors open at 6pm

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 talk will be approximately 1 hour long. Finishing at 7.30pm.

Sunday 16th November 2025

2pm (Doors & Bar open at 1.30pm)

Tickets: £25

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

Saxophonists Derek Nash and Phil Veacock, plus guitarist Mark Flanagan have collectively notched up over 75 years of boogie with the Jools Holland Rhythm & Blues Orchestra. Together, they bring you a show full of swing, blues and grooves, going toe-to-toe for your approval alongside the rhythm section of Pete Whittaker (organ) and George Double (drums). While Jools himself won’t be joining us this time, you’ll be in the expert hands of his long-standing bandmates.

Saxophonist Phil Veacock is best-known as the main arranger, musical director and tenor saxophonist of Jools Holland’s Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. In this role he has arranged for and played with practically everyone of note in popular music from Paul McCartney to Barry White from Elvis Costello to Kylie Minogue.

Derek Nash is one of the busiest freelancers on the UK music scene. A multi award-winning bandleader, instrumentalist and composer, he has been with the Jools Holland R & B Orchestra for nineteen years and delights audiences around the world with his infectious and soulful performances.

Mark Flanagan joined the Jools band in 1988.  Since then he has made countless live, TV, radio and recording appearances with many of the biggest names in the industry.  Mark has also made a name for himself as a solo artist with his own catalogue of songs, written on Dobro and acoustic guitars.  Performing solo, or with a small band, Mark wows his audiences with fine guitar playing and songs written from the heart.

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 afternoon 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.

Friday 21st November 2025 at 7.30pm

Doors & bar open at 7.00pm

Tickets: £15

Tickets are available HERE

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

Matt Price is a storytelling stand-up comic from Cornwall who’s been punched by a gangster, hugged by a psychic, and lived to make jokes about it. With charm, self-deprecation, and wild true tales, he’s like your funniest mate—if your mate had a weirder life and better timing.

A festival favourite and seasoned international performer, he’s headlined at Edinburgh, toured Australia, Asia and Europe, and supported big names like Russell Kane—delivering laughter with generosity, charm and storytelling flair.

He headlines a show featuring local talent taking first steps on the stand-up comedy ladder. The support acts are mini-sets from the participants on compere Louie Green’s Stand-Up course.

Opening the show is Ben van der Velde, a globe-trotting gag-smith whose improv-powered whirlwind once founded the “Church of the Holy Kazoo,” re‑married people via voodoo, and walked the entire Tube for charity. With razor‑sharp spontaneity, audience hijinks, and contagious laughs (scientifically verified), he’s the unpredictable comic you didn’t know you needed.

Experienced stars mingle with newcomers in the Jubilee Hall’s traditionally warm and raucously supportive atmosphere.  Come and enjoy experienced comedians at the top of their game and give your raucous support to new local acts – could there be a star of the future amongst them?

Fancy being on stage rather than in the audience?  Please contact Aldeburgh Library on 01728 587100

The performance ends approx. 9.45pm (including two intervals).

Saturday 22nd November 2025, 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 marketing@aldeburghtowncouncil.gov.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 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.

Friday 28th November 2025 at 7.30pm

Doors 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.

England cricketing legend Graham Gooch OBE is the highest run-scorer of all time, and his 67,057 runs across first class and limited-overs cricket is more even than Sachin Tendulkar’s tally.
One of only 25 players to have scored over 100 first-class centuries, he is a three time Ashes winner, captained England to a World Cup final, and his famous 333 against India is the highest Test score ever at Lord’s.
In 2012 he became England’s batting coach, working with greats including Kevin Pietersen and Joe Root. Gooch’s experience of the game simply can’t be bettered, and he has the stories to prove it!

The event finishes at approx. 9.15pm, including one interval.

Saturday 29th November 2025 at 7.30pm 

Doors open at 7pm

Tickets: £15

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

Expect “initial touches of baroque fusing with modern day folk” (FATEA) as The Finn Collinson Band returns to the stage in 2025.

Joined by two of English folk’s most in-demand musicians, Evan Carson (bodhran, percussion) and Archie Churchill-Moss (guitar, accordion), Finn combines a fundamentally folk approach with elements of early music to sculpt a distinctive and pioneering sound.

Traditional dance tunes meet historical melodies, shaken up in striking new arrangements and brought up to date with Finn’s compositions and trademark recorder style.

Together they create a captivating and wonderfully varied live show, with a respectful eye
on the past but a firm grounding in the present.

“I strongly recommend you take every opportunity to catch them live” – KLOF (Folk Radio)
“Finn is regarded as a leading exponent of the recorder, and deservedly so. Hearing it played as well as it is here, makes me wonder why it’s not heard more in folk music.”– Folking
“His ability to weave tradition and modernity results in an album that feels both familiar and innovative.” (on The Threshold) – Blokfluitist (NL)
“Cutting-edge English folk” – FolkWorld