Sherborne Abbey Festival website

Sherborne Abbey Festival held its first concert on Friday, 5th May 2000, and the festival has been held each year since as a four or five day event based around the liturgy and its music. The festival is run by volunteers and aims to bring high quality classical events to the town at a price people can afford. Any profits made are used to fund future festivals and to promote music within the Parish of Sherborne
Dame Emma Kirkby Dame Felicity Lott Photo courtesy of Trevor Leighton	TENTH ANNIVERSARY FESTIVAL In 2009 Sherborne Abbey Festival celebrated its tenth anniversary and to help us celebrate this very special occasion we organised five days crammed full of the most amazing musical treats. The festival this year ran from Friday 1st May - Tuesday 5th May and included such exciting names as The Sixteen with Harry Christophers (the voices of Classic FM) singing Allegri's 'Miserere', Dame Emma Kirkby and the Sherborne Festival Chorus singing Handel's 'Messiah', Dame Felicity Lott, Red Priest , Julian Lloyd Webber and the European Union Chamber Orchestra, Santa Montefiore, Andrew Nethsingha and much, much more. Click on the 2009 programme link on the bar to the left of this page to view all performances included in this Festival.	Red Priest Santa Montefiore
Julian Lloyd Webber	The Sixteen	Andrew Nethsingha

In his book England's Thousand Best Churches, Simon Jenkins lists Sherborne Abbey in the top 18 of England's churches and credits it with some of the finest vaulting in the country. He writes, "I would pit Sherborne's roof against any contemporary work of the Italian Renaissance".

To encounter great music in these beautiful surroundings is something rather special. These moments of real magic are available all too rarely. So why not come and join the growing number of people who return year after year to enjoy our festival in this wonderful setting -- once experienced never forgotten.

Photo courtesy of Mr Stuart Glasby

Sherborne Abbey Festival is run in aid of Sherborne Abbey.

Supported by


Simon Digby Charitable Trust	CHARTERHOUSE Auctioneers and Valuers		THE DUNARD FUND