Host a concert in your church
Music in Country Churches gives churches the opportunity to host musicians and ensembles of national and international repute, and raise money for the maintenance of your church building’s fabric.
There are 16,000 church buildings in England, Scotland, and Wales. All are in need of funds to keep the buildings in good repair and open for people to admire, explore, and pray in. Church buildings hold significance for regular worshippers as well as those from the wider community. They provide a focus for shared history and identity. Their monuments, fittings, and shape hold so much historical and cultural significance.
Churches were built with music in mind and nothing brings a building to life better than music. Organising a concert is great way to get people who would not ordinarily visit churches into a church building. Concerts can involve people from across your local village or town community.
You can help by hosting a Music in Country Churches concert. You’ll not only give your community a wonderful evening of music, but also be helping to raise awareness for your church building. Concerts bring together people with a diverse range of skills and experience, uniting them in a project with a common purpose and clear, achievable goal.
Your church would be featured in our annual concert series brochure and on our website. While you would be doing most of the work organising the concert, we will offer lots of support, promotion, not to mention excellent musicians. We’d love to hear from you and arrange a visit. In the first instance, please email us info@musicincountrychurches.org.uk.
Our Churches
Since 1989 weekends and concerts series have been held at the following parish churches:
ST MARY
DRIFFIELD
ST NICHOLAS
DERSINGHAM
ST PETER AND ST PAUL
NORTHLEACH
ST MARY
BIBURY
ST LAWRENCE
LECHLADE
HOLY TRINITY
MINCHINHAMPTON
THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST
BRECON
ST MARY & ALL SAINTS
FOTHERINGHAY
ST MARGARET OF ANTIOCH
CLEY-NEXT-THE-SEA
ST PANCRAS, WIDECOMBE-IN-THE-MOOR
ST EDMUND, WARKTON
ST MARY, SNETTISHAM
Norfolk
Salle
Beeston
West Walton
East Harling
Cawston
Walpole St Peter
South Lopham
Wolferton
Wymondham
Dersingham
Blakeney
Cley-next-the-Sea
King’s Lynn
Wiveton
Castle Acre
Hingham
South Creake
Swaffham
Old Hunstanton
Thornham
Great Massingham
Snettisham
Suffolk
Stoke-by-Nayland
Hadleigh
Redgrave
Clare
Blythburgh
Lavenham
Mildenhall
Framlingham
Eye
Southwold
Orford
Ixworth
Wingfield
Long Melford
Walsham-le-Willows
Woolpit
Devon
Widecombe-in-the-Moor
Chagford
Gloucestershire
Lechlade
Berkeley
Bibury
Cirencester
Minchinhampton
Fairford
Northleach
Winchcombe
Wiltshire
Malmesbury
Steeple Ashton
Edington
Ramsbury
Amesbury
Devizes
Wales
Brecon
Oxfordshire
Bloxham
Dorchester-on-Thames
Bampton
Chipping Norton
Northamptonshire
Fotheringhay
Warkton
Geddington
Herefordshire
Abbey Dore
Hertfordshire
Ashwell
Lincolnshire
Brant Broughton
Essex
Hatfield Broad Oak
East Sussex
Coleman’s Hatch