Tales for The Witching Hour When: Saturday 24 October 2025 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm Where: St Mary's Church, Wivenhoe High St, Wivenhoe CO7 9BD Joy Smith - harps, percussion and storytelling Step into a night where shadows breathe and history whispers. This Halloween, we invite you to a gathering of spine-tingling bedtime tales and haunting harp music, where dark folklore, twisted fairy tales & echoes of history entwine - from the Witch Finder General to the imagination of Angela Carter. Enchanting harp music weaves through stories told with the Queen of Hearts' signature mischief, wit, and a touch of the absurd. Spine-tingling, whimsical, and deliciously uncanny.

Opus Anglicanum return to Wivenhoe with their new Christmas programme Winter Wassail. Join us for an joyous evening full of Christmas merriment and cheer with festive readings from actor Alex Knox mixed with carols and yuletide songs. "One of the UK's Top 10 Carol Concerts" - The Guardian

The concert will feature Wivenhoe Orchestra together with 4 wind players who have formed themselves into a Sax Quartet to play separately during the evening. They played last year and were wonderful. The orchestra will be playing pieces from works by well-known composers. Young people (aged 14 and under) are very welcome at this concert and for half price. Please contact Peter Hill directly for a Young Persons ticket - [email protected] This is the 9th time that Pam Garland, Leader of the Wivenhoe Orchestra will perform for us in St Mary's Church with its wonderful acoustics. We look forward to them each year.