HAY FESTIVAL WINTER WEEKEND, 28 NOVEMBER – 1 DECEMBER 2024
the following events are at St Mary’s Church
Friday 29 November 2024, 7pm – 9.30 pm
Event 12
Father Richard: Silent Film with Live Organ – Metropolis
Gifted organist and composer Father Richard Williams, former vicar of St Mary’s, performs a stunning live accompaniment to Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 silent film Metropolis.
The above event includes an interval. Interval drinks may be purchased from the bar inside St Mary’s Church. For all the events below, the bar will be serving tea/coffee and cakes, or drinks, depending on the time of day, to purchase before the start of the event. All the proceeds from the bar go to St Mary’s church.
Saturday 30 November, 10 am
Event 16
George Nash – Neolithic Tombs of Wales
Saturday 30 November, 11.30 am
Event 19
Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston – Can We Live Forever?
Saturday 30 November, 1 pm
Event 22
Alex McCarthy talks to Caryl Lewis – Debut Discoveries: The Unbroken Beauty of Rosalind Bone
Saturday 30 November, 2.30pm
Event 25
Chloe Dalton talks to Helen Bagnall – Raising Hare
Saturday 30 November, 4 pm
Event 28
Tom Chatfield talks to Adam Rutherford – Wise Animals: How Technology Has Made Us What We Are
Saturday 30 November, 5.30 pm
Event 31
Sarah Clegg feat. John Kirkpatrick and Blackthorn Ritualistic Folk
The Dead of Winter: The Demons, Witches and Ghosts of Christmas
Saturday 30 November, 7 pm
Event 33
Tom Mustill and Vahakn Matossian – Whale Song Sound Bath
Saturday 30 November, 8.30 pm – 9.30 pm
Event 36
Maxim Calver – Cello Concert
Saturday 30 November, 10 pm
Event 37
Danny Robins – Ghost stories: Into the Uncanny
For further details and prices, see HAY FESTIVAL WINTER WEEKEND
Wednesday 4 December, 3 pm
Christmas Carol Concert with the Wye Border Singers
In aid of Hay Dial A Ride
£4 entry includes cakes, mince pies and refreshments.
Saturday 7 December 10.30 am coffee for 11.00 am
Monthly Organ Recital with guest organist, Fr. Richard Williams
Saturday 7 December, 3.30 pm
Hay Madrigals
This Christmas Hay Mads will be doing a different sort of concert. Conductor Paul Sweeting has chosen a stunning set of Christmas songs and settings, including newer arrangements of mediaeval carols and pieces by the likes of Rutter, Gardner, etc. So not the usual Baroque repertoire. And we are joining with the Come Back Quire. The wonderful organist from Brecon Cathedral, Stephen Power, will be accompanying us and will open the concert with a piece of his own choice.
Usual tea and cakes afterwards, and a lovely Christmassy programme and atmosphere.
Tickets £10, on the door.
Sunday 8 December, 7.00 pm
Hay Community Choir Concert
Saturday 14 December, 7.00 pm
Hay Music’s Grand Christmas Concert: The Choir of King’s College London
Music for the Christmas Season with one of Britain’s great university choirs: Tavener, Rachmaninoff, Poulenc, Beamish, Aleotti, MacMillan, Cornelius and more. Book early – this annual Christmas concert has become a sell-out event.
Tickets and full details at Hay Music.