Salisbury Gig Guide
Salisbury Cathedral
6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ - under ½ mile - mapWebsite: www.salisburycathedral.org.uk
Contact: Box office: 01722 656555
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Tuesday 09 December 2025
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map 
Choir
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: Afternoon Carols - 2pm - An afternoon of carols with Salisbury Cathedral Choir for group visitors Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral 
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Saturday 13 December 2025
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Choir
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: Handel’s Messiah - 7pm - A Choral Foundation Concert: Handel's masterpiece Messiah at Salisbury Cathedral One of the most popular fixtures in our festive calendar, Handel’s Messiah returns with the full Cathedral Choir joined by the City of London Sinfonia and four distinguished soloists: Rebecca Hardwick, Hugh Cutting, Ruairi Bowen and Božidar Smiljanić. Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Friday 19 December 2025
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Live music
• Film
• Orchestra
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: The Snowman – Film with Live Orchestra - 2pm - Make this Christmas truly unforgettable with a special screening of the beloved festive classic The Snowman, brought to life by a live performance from a professional orchestra. Presented by Carrot Productions – the world’s leading performers of The Snowman with live orchestra – this award-winning show features some of the UK’s finest musicians. Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Friday 19 December 2025
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Live music
• Film
• Orchestra
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: The Snowman – Film with Live Orchestra - 4pm - Make this Christmas truly unforgettable with a special screening of the beloved festive classic The Snowman, brought to life by a live performance from a professional orchestra. Presented by Carrot Productions – the world’s leading performers of The Snowman with live orchestra – this award-winning show features some of the UK’s finest musicians. Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Friday 19 December 2025
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Live music
• Film
• Orchestra
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: The Snowman – Film with Live Orchestra - 7pm - Make this Christmas truly unforgettable with a special screening of the beloved festive classic The Snowman, brought to life by a live performance from a professional orchestra. Presented by Carrot Productions – the world’s leading performers of The Snowman with live orchestra – this award-winning show features some of the UK’s finest musicians. Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Saturday 20 December 2025
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Christmas
• Film
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: The Muppet Christmas Carol – SOLD OUT - 7pm - The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) is one of the most popular, and certainly one of the most fun, adaptations of Dickens’ classic Christmas story. Sit back, relax, and enjoy this popular festive film on the big screen in the magnificent building adorned with Advent and Christmas decorations and of course the spectacular Christmas tree; the perfect festive scene. Enjoy festive drinks like mulled wine and hot chocolate, plus classic cinema treats including popcorn, milkshakes, and sweets. Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Monday 22 December 2025
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Carols
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: Carols by Candlelight - 7pm Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Tuesday 23 December 2025
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Carols
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: Carols by Candlelight - 7pm Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Wednesday 24 December 2025
- Christmas Eve
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Choir
• Christmas
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: Choral Evensong for Christmas Eve - 5.30pm - All are welcome to this moving service of readings, prayers and choral music sung by the Cathedral Choir, which marks the start of Christmas. Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Thursday 25 December 2025
- Christmas Day
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Choir
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: Festal Evensong - 3pm Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Friday 09 January 2026
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Live music
• Concert
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: David Owen Norris: Piano by Candlelight - 8pm - Described as “perhaps the most interesting pianist in the world”, David Owen Norris returns to Salisbury Cathedral to play a fascinating concert including music by Gibbons, Parry, Vaughan Williams & Billy Mayerl, along with his own transcription of The Scene of the Cold Genius from Purcell’s Fairy Queen, and his restored version of Elgar’s mighty Concert Allegro, which was published only after his death, in a sadly truncated version. Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Saturday 10 January 2026
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Live music
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: Organ Vespers: La Nativité du Seigneur by Messiaen - 5.30pm - All are welcome at this liturgical performance of Messiaen’s organ cycle. Composed in 1935, Olivier Messiaen’s La Nativité du Seigneur is one of the most moving and compelling organ works of the twentieth century. Come and hear this extraordinary music, played on our Father Willis organ by David Halls, in a meditative act of worship. These ‘Organ Vespers’, which will last just over an hour, are an opportunity to find space for prayer and contemplation through Messiaen’s deeply devotional music. Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Friday 06 February 2026
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Live music
• Concert
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: David Halls and Daphne Moody: The Romantic Violin by Candlelight - 8-9pm - Cathedral Director of Music, David Halls and Daphne Moody once again join forces for a concert brimming with late-Romantic colour. Their programme opens with Brahms’s glorious A major Sonata, op.100, before turning to the shimmering wit and tenderness of Erich Korngold’s Four Pieces from Much Ado About Nothing, op.11. The concert concludes with Elgar’s Violin Sonata in E minor, op.82, written in the shadow of the First World War and full of longing, poignancy and unmistakably English passion. Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Saturday 14 February 2026
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Live music
• Choir
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: Johns' Boys Welsh Male Voice Choir – 10th Anniversary Concert - 7.30pm - Join Johns’ Boys Welsh Male Choir as they celebrate 10 incredible years of music-making with their 2025 UK Anniversary Tour! 🎶 From their roots in North Wales to performing on some of the world’s biggest stages, Johns’ Boys have become one of the most decorated British male choirs in history. In 2019, they made history as the first British Male Voice Choir to win the Pavarotti ‘Choir of the World’ title at the Llangollen International Music Festival. They’ve wowed millions on Britain’s Got Talent, The Royal Variety Show, The Last Night of the Proms, and Netflix’s Stay Close — with Simon Cowell calling them “a brilliant choir. I love them!” Their viral cover of Calum Scott’s “Biblical” has over 21 million views worldwide, and their second EP features breathtaking new arrangements of “Angels,” “Bread of Heaven,” and concert favourite “He Lives in You.” Experience their modern, powerful twist on the traditional Welsh male choir in this unforgettable anniversary tour — a celebration of harmony, passion, and the unmistakable sound of Wales. Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Saturday 14 March 2026
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral map
Choir
Address: 6 The Close, Salisbury, Wiltshire, SP1 2EJ Telephone: Box office: 01722 656555 Event: Bournemouth Bach Choir presents Monteverdi Vespers of 1610 with The Sixteen; QuintEssential Sackbut & Cornett Ensemble & Bournemouth Symphony Youth Chorus. - 7.30pm - Claudio Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610 is a towering and undisputed masterpiece of the early Baroque period— at once intimate and grand, prayerful and dramatic, exalted and sensual. Brilliant instrumental writing paired with impressive choruses and virtuoso solos create a luxurious tribute to the Virgin Mary. Venue's website: salisburycathedral.org.uk Venue's Facebook: facebook.com/salisburycathedral
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Salisbury Cathedral - Up Next:
SATURDAY 13 DECEMBER 2025
Lucas Hardy
Venue: Salisbury Cathedral
9pm
Lucas Hardy's website: linktr.ee/lucashardy. Lucas Hardy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/TheRealLucasHardy. Acoustic singer songwriter Lucas Hardy is a two-time winner of the Best Solo Performer at Salisbury Music Awards and is a staple of the Salisbury Music Scene. Lucas is a talented singer, songwriter and guitarist and his performances contain a mixture of his original songs and covers. Examples of Artists that Lucas plays are Blink-172, Green Day, Foo Fighters, Jimmy Eat World and more. Lucas’s originals and covers are a combination of pop punk, rock, folk and emo.