Join us for a wonderful evening of dancing at St John's Waterloo with our Christmas Ceilidh, welcoming back the amazing band Banter. Www.Banter.Band Banter are: Simon Care on melodeon & concertina, Nina Zella on keyboards & vocals, Tim Walker on drums, percussion, brass, guitar, bass & vocals and Mark Jolley on bass, fiddle, guitar & vocals. Four fine musicians whose roots are firmly in the traditional English genre, but who enjoy stretching the limits. Formed in 2015, they realised that a common love for the living traditions of English song and dance music was at their core and began to pursue it’s evolution, bringing in flavours from a wider palette of musical influences. They have gained a reputation for being powerfully unique in the English traditional music genre. Their popularity has placed them in great demand to perform at many of the UK’s largest festivals including: Glastonbury, Cambridge Folk Festival, Broadstairs Folk Week, Sidmouth Folk Festival, Whitby Folk Week, Folk East, Oxford Folk Week, Wickham Festival, Gate To Southwell Festival and Towersey Festival as well as internationally at European festivals such as Rudolstadt (Germany) and Costa festivals in Portugal and Ibiza. This is a fun and inclusive evening of music and dancing. No experience necessary - all the dances are carefully explained. Come with friends or by yourself - it's a great way to meet new people. Bar provided. Waterloo Ceilidhs is a leading ceilidh series at St John's Church, opposite Waterloo station. Featuring some of the country's top ceilidh bands and callers, we bring inclusive and high-energy ceilidhs to the London music scene. Tickets We want to keep our prices affordable, whilst showcasing the country's top ceilidh bands in this wonderful venue in Central London. There are three price options: Standard admission You can choose to pay a bit more to help us get this ceilidh series of the ground and safeguard future events concessions. This option is subsidised and designed for students or people without a regular, full-time, salaried income.

Join us for a special Halloween celebration ceilidh in the magnificent St John's Waterloo as part of the 'dancing boots' album launch tour of Brown Boots Boogie Band. Dressing up encouraged! Http://brownbootsmusic.Com/brown-boots-boogie-band/ Brown Boots Boogie Band sees the formidable melodeon and fiddle duo of Will Allen and Martin Clarke, combine with Will Chamberlain on piano and Paul Quarry on drums. They are joined by Hannah Moore, one of the country's leading ceilidh callers. This is a fun and inclusive evening of music and dancing. No experience necessary - all the dances are carefully explained. Come with friends or by yourself - it's a great way to meet new people. Bar provided. Waterloo Ceilidhs is a leading ceilidh series at St John's Church, opposite Waterloo station. Featuring some of the country's top ceilidh bands and callers, we bring inclusive and high-energy ceilidhs to the London music scene. Tickets We want to keep our prices affordable, whilst showcasing the country's top ceilidh bands in this wonderful venue in Central London. There are three price options - standard admission, supporters (pay a bit more to help us get this ceilidh series of the ground and safeguard future events), or concessions (subsidised option for students or people without a steady income).

To start we shall be playing the Cockaigne Overture by Edward Elgar. Our concerto will be by W A Mozart - Piano concerto no.21, with Milda Daunoraite as our Soloist. The second half of the concert shall be The Miraculous Mandarin by Bela Bartok. Tickets are £15 online in advance or £18 on the door, (£12 for Concessions online and £15 on the door). There is 10% booking fee with online tickets.

DVORAK - Four Slavonic Dances op.46 RAVEL - Piano Concerto in G Major (Soloist: Gabriele Sutkute) J. STRAUSS - The Blue Danube Two Polkas; Tritsch Trasch and Thunder & Lightning R. STRAUSS - Der Rosenkavalier Suite with conductor Peter Selwyn

Debussy Sarabande from Pour le piano arr. Ravel Paule Maurice - Tableaux de Provence Beethoven Symphony no. 1 Our concert will open with the ERSO debut of our new Assistant Conductor Beth Fitzpatrick, conducting Debussy’s beautiful Sarabande from Pour the Piano, arranged by Ravel. We are then thrilled to present Meg Glover, the hugely talented saxophonist who won our 2026 Soloist of the Year competition. She will be performing Tableaux de Provence by Paule Maurice who was a significant female composer. This work, which is a staple of the saxophone repertoire, has five movements of contrasting character and shows off the instrument in all of its soloistic glory. The second half of the concert will begin with Principal Conductor Christopher Stark illuminating some of the key aspects of our final piece - Beethoven’s First Symphony - using well chosen musical examples conducted by Assistant Conductor Beth Fitzpatrick. This symphony was premiered in 1800 at the Burgtheater in Vienna (shown on our concert flyer) in a concert which Beethoven put on for his own benefit. The work was dedicated to the Baron van Swieten, the patron and connoisseur who had helped introduce Beethoven to Vienna society. Join us for an early evening concert of wonderful music!

As a young man Richard Strauss, with a group of friends, took an expedition up a local mountain, lost their way and were caught in a storm and soaked on the way down. Strauss stored the adventure in memory and in 1899 started work to capture the whole experience in music. He put it to one side, unfinished, until the death of Gustav Mahler in 1910 prompted him to revisit his sketches and he completed the symphony in 1914. In the process he transformed his experience into a profound meditation on the place of man in nature. The Britten Courtly Dances make an excellent concert suite. Britten’s opera Gloriana, from which they were taken, was not well received at its premiere, in June 1953, by an audience expecting a patriotic celebration of the new Elizabethan era. Only recently has it been recognised as exploring the relationship between love and duty, and responsibilities of power. Tickets are £15 online in advance or £18 on the door, (£12 for Concessions online and £15 on the door). There is a 10% booking fee with online tickets.