Salisbury Gig Guide
Salisbury Musick
Music festival - October 3rd to 5th, 2025Website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk
Salisbury Musick is a three day festival, celebrating early music. The inaugural festival will be held on October 3rd to 5th, 2025. In the eighteenth century, three day festivals of music were held annually in Salisbury to great acclaim. Salisbury Musick brings together local musicians and visiting Baroque experts to provide a wonderful range of concerts, talks and educational opportunities for all ages.
Salisbury Musick Events:
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Friday 03 October 2025
Venue: All Saints Church map 
Live music
• Music festival
Address: South Street, Broad Chalke, Wiltshire, SP5 5DW Event: Salisbury Musick: Venice to Vienna - 11am - Free entry with retiring collection - An exploration of early brass music and the natural horn. This 'coffee and cake' concert celebrates talented local brass players from Salisbury schools. They will take you on a fascinating journey from the Renaissance (including Gabrieli and Susato) to the baroque, with Handel's Fireworks Music. The concert will also feature a demonstration of the origins and development of the natural horn by local musician Laurie Truluck, and a performance of the Beethoven Horn Sonata. This event is unticketed, with free entry and retiring collection for those who would like to make a contribution. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk. 
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Friday 03 October 2025
Venue: Fovant Free Chapel map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: Rectory, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 5JL Event: Salisbury Musick: Music by the Brook - 11am - Free entry with retiring collection - Nadder Baroque: Lynn Menzies (baroque violin), Pauline Gallear (baroque violin), David Copus (baroque cello) and David Davies (harpsichord). Domestic music-making was a very popular activity in the 18th century and composers across Europe responded to the demand for music to play. A particularly common form was the trio - actually four instruments: 2 violins, a cello and a keyboard. Nadder Baroque enjoy continuing this tradition and are happy to share their experience with a wider audience. This event is unticketed, with free entry and retiring collection for those who would like to make a contribution. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk.
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Friday 03 October 2025
Venue: St Thomas's Church map
Live music
Address: St Thomas's Square, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 1BA Telephone: 01722 322537 Event: Salisbury Musick: LUNCHTIME CONCERT – EBBLE BAROQUE & BAROQUE N ROLL - 12.15pm - Free entry with retiring collection - Baroque 'n' Roll, the South Wilts Grammar School Baroque Ensemble, with Ebble Baroque and members of Salisbury Baroque This programme brings together South Wilts Grammar School Baroque Ensemble who call themselves Baroque ‘n’ Roll, Ebble Baroque and members of Salisbury Baroque to explore a range of pieces from across the baroque era, including works from Dowland and Gibbons to Purcell and Vivaldi. Baroque ‘n’ Roll, the South Wilts Grammar School Baroque Ensemble is just one performing group out of a diverse array of musical opportunities available to Salisbury's students in the school's vibrant and forward-thinking music department. These young players are thrown into a 17th- or 18th-century perspective through reading music from copies of original manuscripts and prints, by adapting their playing towards a baroque style, and by learning to improvise. This event is unticketed, with free entry and retiring collection for those who would like to make a contribution. Venue's website: stthomassalisbury.co.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/StThomaschurchSalisbury
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Friday 03 October 2025
Venue: The Salisbury Museum map
Music festival
• Talk
Address: The Kings House, 65 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EN Telephone: 01722 332151 Event: Salisbury Musick: Salisbury Festival in the 18th Century - Talk by Nigel Wyatt - 3pm - The inaugural Salisbury Musick festival in 2025 takes its inspiration from the annual music festivals of 18th century Salisbury which drew large audiences and featured many of the leading performers of the day. The modern festival is named after the ‘Salisbury Society of Musick’ – the group of local players and singers who formed the core of the festival musicians. Taking the festival of 250 years ago, in October 1775, as a starting point, Nigel Wyatt will discuss the origins of the festivals and those who performed at them. He will explore the factors that led to the success of the annual events and the reasons behind their sudden decline after 1780. As well as enjoying the talk, you can choose to buy an extra voucher for a hot drink and cake in the Museum café for £6. You can use this before or after the talk. Nigel will come to the café as soon as he can after the talk. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk. Venue's website: salisburymuseum.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/SalisburyMuseum
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Friday 03 October 2025
Venue: Medieval Hall map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: Sarum St. Michael, West Walk, Cathedral Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EY Event: Salisbury Musick: More than a Woman - celebrating women in early music - 6pm - Sounds Historical: Lynda Sayce, Alison Kinder, Mary Tyers and Heidi Fardell. Performing on a variety of fascinating instruments, Sounds Historical put women at the centre of their latest programme and introduce you to some remarkable females who left a tangible musical legacy in many ways - from patrons to poets, printers to publishers and composers, students and scribes, including Isabella d'Este, Anne of Denmark, Anne Boleyn, Lady Russell Countess of Bedford, Jane Pickeringe, Isabella Leonarda, Elizabeth Herbert Countess of Pembroke and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk. Venue's website: salisburymedievalhall.com Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburymedievalhall
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Friday 03 October 2025
Venue: Medieval Hall map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: Sarum St. Michael, West Walk, Cathedral Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EY Event: Salisbury Musick: Night Music - 8.30pm - Julia Bishop (unaccompanied violin). Enjoy by candlelight an evocative evening of solo violin music from the 17th and 18th centuries. This was an extraordinary period of development for the violin and this concert will include selected movements from the sonatas and partitas by the great JS Bach, fantasies by the highly popular GF Telemann, and feature in particular the iconic Passacaglia in D minor by the earlier virtuosic violinist and composer Heinrich Biber, a work which was to have a huge influence on the masterpieces for solo violin which were to come later. With the pace and noise of modern life ever more hectic, here is an opportunity to step back in time for an hour of sublime, intimate music from the Baroque! Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk. Venue's website: salisburymedievalhall.com Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburymedievalhall
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Saturday 04 October 2025
Venue: Barford St Martin Church map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: Duck Lane, Barford St Martin, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 4AJ Event: Salisbury Musick: The Merry Organ - 11am - David Davies (organ). Works by Orlando Gibbons, Pachelbel, Couperin, Stanley and, of course, Bach. David, who also plays harpsichord with Salisbury Baroque, has been playing the organ for 70 years! He now plays regularly at Barford and Chilmark. Recent recitals have been at the Horniman Museum in London and for Salisbury Chamber Music Club. The Barford organ is an excellent example of a modest sized instrument. Ben Maton, in his YouTube explorations of village organs pronounced it one of the finest he had ever played, particularly noting its versatility. This event is unticketed, with free entry and retiring collection for those who would like to make a contribution. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk.
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Saturday 04 October 2025
Venue: St George & All Saints Church map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: Harnham Road, East Harnham, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP2 8JJ Event: Salisbury Musick: Ayres and Dances - 11am - The Festival Minstrels. Enjoy a selection of jolly ayres and dances from the 17th century, featuring composers of the day, music from John Playford’s The English Dancing Master (1651) and some local tunes, played on a variety of period instruments including recorders and viols of all sizes, mandola, fiddles and crumhorns. The band: Vaughan Danning, Frances Eustace, Pauline Gallear, Karen Goodwin, Malcolm McDonald, Julie Mettyear, William Shering, Shelley Stokes, Jane Young Coffee available at the Parish Hall from 10 until 12. This event is unticketed, with free entry and retiring collection for those who would like to make a contribution. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk.
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Saturday 04 October 2025
Venue: St Thomas's Church map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: St Thomas's Square, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 1BA Telephone: 01722 322537 Event: Salisbury Musick: The Leipzig Connection - 12.30pm - Sarum Baroque: Miranda Dodd (recorder and baroque violin), Lynn Menzies (baroque violin), Matthew Dodd (baroque bassoon), Hilary Brooks (baroque cello) and Nigel Gardner (chamber organ). Leipzig in the 18th century, being at the confluence of trading routes and host to regular trade and book fairs, was a thriving cosmopolitan city with international connections. The city’s renowned choir school at St. Thomas’ Church and the university attracted students from Saxony and beyond; many musicians who were later to become respected composers received the foundations of their musical training in the city. For Salisbury Musick Sarum Baroque is pleased to present music by composers connected to Leipzig in various ways: Fasch as a student at St. Thomas’ School, Telemann as a university student, Bach as Cantor at St. Thomas’ Church and Handel as a regular visitor to the city. The members of Sarum Baroque met playing Bach Cantatas with Bishop David Stancliffe. Most are familiar to local audiences as regular members of Salisbury Baroque. With both early and late Baroque recorder and string models available they enjoy exploring a wide repertoire aiming at all times for historically informed performances. This event is unticketed, with free entry and retiring collection for those who would like to make a contribution. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk. Venue's website: stthomassalisbury.co.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/StThomaschurchSalisbury
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Saturday 04 October 2025
Venue: The Salisbury Museum map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: The Kings House, 65 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EN Telephone: 01722 332151 Event: Salisbury Musick: Behind the Scenes: preparing and performing the Mass in B minor - 3pm - Colin Howard (conductor and singer) and Julia Bishop (violinist) in conversation with Gillian Taylor. Preparing to perform any work requires time, thought and practice but with a masterwork like Bach's Mass in B minor this process is even more fascinating. Colin Howard recently conducted a performance with Dorchester Choral Society. Julia Bishop led the orchestra for that performance and leads the performance that concludes our festival. Come along to hear more about this remarkable work and how musicians prepare for it. As well as enjoying the talk, you can choose to buy an extra voucher for tea or coffee and cake in the Museum café for £6. You can use this before or after the talk. The speakers will come to the café as soon as they can after the talk. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk. Venue's website: salisburymuseum.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/SalisburyMuseum
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Saturday 04 October 2025
Venue: Medieval Hall map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: Sarum St. Michael, West Walk, Cathedral Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EY Event: Salisbury Musick: The Virtuoso Harpsichord - 6pm - David Wright (harpsichord). Internationally acclaimed concert artist David Wright will celebrate the golden age of the harpsichord with dazzling works by baroque giants Bach, Handel and Scarlatti alongside some of their lesser known contemporaries. This recital will be presented with anecdotes about the composers and musical life at the time and will prove to be a very entertaining evening. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk. Venue's website: salisburymedievalhall.com Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburymedievalhall
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Saturday 04 October 2025
Venue: Medieval Hall map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: Sarum St. Michael, West Walk, Cathedral Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EY Event: Salisbury Musick: Come, Heavy Sleep - 8.30pm - Charlotte La Thrope (soprano), Hugo Hymas (tenor) and Sergio Bucheli (lute). This intimate, candlelit concert explores the rich repertoire of lute song in England and France at the turn of the seventeenth century. Soprano Charlotte La Thrope and tenor Hugo Hymas, with lutenist Sergio Bucheli, present music of love and longing by Dowland, Campion and Purcell, alongside rarely heard Airs de Cour by composers such as Ambruys and Lambert. This programme will trace the expressive range of early song from private melancholy to courtly elegance, performed here in historically informed style and atmospheric surroundings. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk. Venue's website: salisburymedievalhall.com Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburymedievalhall
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Sunday 05 October 2025
Venue: The Salisbury Museum map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: The Kings House, 65 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EN Telephone: 01722 332151 Event: Salisbury Musick: Tots concert 'Come and Join the Party!' - 10.15am & 11.15am - Led by Alice Poppleton (baroque violin) with Jacob Garside (baroque cello). "Come and Join the Party". A musical party to celebrate all the fun of the festival. Led by Alice Poppleton, who grew up in Salisbury and is now working professionally as a musician, this concert will explore the wonders of baroque music with pre-school children and their parents or carers. Please note that all children must be accompanied by an adult. Alice will be assisted by Jacob Garside (baroque cello). Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk. Venue's website: salisburymuseum.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/SalisburyMuseum
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Sunday 05 October 2025
Venue: Medieval Hall map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: Sarum St. Michael, West Walk, Cathedral Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EY Event: Salisbury Musick: A Taste of Italy - 3pm - Early Bird: Jean Paterson (baroque violin), Stefanie Heichelheim (baroque viola), Sebastian Comberti (baroque cello) and Sharon Gould (harpsichord). 18th century Italy was a hot-bed of musical creativity, inspiring composers throughout Europe. This afternoon's programme is a musical ‘Lasagne’, mostly Italian, but with layers from France and Germany - and a sprinkle of folk-music for seasoning. The four musicians of Early Bird present solos, duos, trios and quartets by Antonio Vivaldi, Anna Bon di Venezia, Tommaso Giordani and Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, along with grand desserts by Handel and Bach. Followers of Early Bird will recognise the names of Anna Bon and Elisabeth Jacquet as the creators of unexpectedly popular items performed in recent concerts by the group. In response to requests for more from these two neglected geniuses, Early Bird brings you a Venetian Divertimento and a Parisian Sonata, each featuring the three string instruments and harpsichord. Solo items include Bach's 'Aria variata alla maniera italiana' and fiddle tunes from Calabria, Puglia and Alsace. Outer layers of the lasagne are provided by chamber works from Vivaldi and the four years' Italian resident, Handel. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk. Venue's website: salisburymedievalhall.com Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburymedievalhall
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Sunday 05 October 2025
Venue: St Thomas's Church map
Live music
• Music festival
Address: St Thomas's Square, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 1BA Telephone: 01722 322537 Event: Salisbury Musick: Mass in B minor - 5.30pm - Gala concert: Bach Mass in B minor with The Farrant Singers and Salisbury Baroque. Bach's Mass in B minor has been described by many as a masterpiece and the greatest choral work ever composed. This gala concert will bring together two local groups, visiting professional players and a world class team of soloists under the baton of Philip Lawson as a fitting conclusion to our inaugural festival. Salisbury Musick's website: www.salisburymusick.org.uk. Venue's website: stthomassalisbury.co.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/StThomaschurchSalisbury
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FRIDAY 03 OCTOBER 2025
Salisbury Musick: LUNCHTIME CONCERT – EBBLE BAROQUE & BAROQUE N ROLL
Venue: St Thomas's Church
12.15pm
Baroque 'n' Roll, the South Wilts Grammar School Baroque Ensemble, with Ebble Baroque and members of Salisbury Baroque This programme brings together South Wilts Grammar School Baroque Ensemble who call themselves Baroque ‘n’ Roll, Ebble Baroque and members of Salisbury Baroque to explore a range of pieces from across the baroque era, including works from Dowland and Gibbons to Purcell and Vivaldi. Baroque ‘n’ Roll, the South Wilts Grammar School Baroque Ensemble is just one performing group out of a diverse array of musical opportunities available to Salisbury's students in the school's vibrant and forward-thinking music department. These young players are thrown into a 17th- or 18th-century perspective through reading music from copies of original manuscripts and prints, by adapting their playing towards a baroque style, and by learning to improvise. This event is unticketed, with free entry and retiring collection for those who would like to make a contribution.