Upcoming Events
Family Drop-ins Summer Craft Sessions
Thursday's 11th – 25th August 10:30 – 15:00 |
Family Drop-ins Summer craft sessions at Buckfast Abbey
Thursday's 11th – 25th August.
Drop-in any time between 10.30am to 3.00pm
FREE
Suitable for ages 5-14
Take away everything you make.
All children must be accompanied by an adult.
Devon Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers Exhibition
Friday 26th – Saturday 28th August |
Devon Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers are back with an exhibition at Buckfast Abbey over the August bank holiday weekend. It’s the perfect setting for showing our achievements over the 70 years we have been active with many and varied examples of what we achieve as ...
Bank Holiday Recital: Geoffrey Morgan
Monday 29th August 2022, 13:30 | Free Entry
First prize winner of the London Organ Week, former Assistant Organist of Westminster Abbey and Visiting Professor of Music at Yale, Geoffrey Morgan performs a kaleidoscopic programme of music to demonstrate the full spectrum of colour available on the Abbey organ.
Geof...
Bee Zoom Workshops - Autumn Management
Saturday 10th September 2022 | £5.00
Autumn Management
Sessions start at 2:00pm
Each is a bookable live zoom joint presentation by Martin and Clare with the opportunity for live chat and questions at the end.
Each zoom will be recorded and put on the Abbey website as a password enabled presentation. ...
Bee Zoom Workshops - Collection
Various Dates | £20.00
Sessions start at 2:00pm
Saturday 15th January 2022 – Winter management
Saturday 5th February 2022 – Spring Management
Saturday 9th April 2022 – Swarming
Saturday 6th June 2022 – Queen rearing
Saturday 9th July 2022 – Summer management
Saturday 10th Septe...
Grand-Orgue Recital: Simon Johnson
Saturday 17th September 2022, 19:30 | £15.00
The newly appointed Master of Music at Westminster Cathedral, Simon Johnson, explores masterworks of the German school in his debut recital at Buckfast Abbey.
Simon Johnson organ
Abbey Choir: Rachmaninov Vespers
Saturday 1st October 2022, 19:30 | £15.00
Join the Abbey Choir for an atmospheric performance of Rachmaninov All-night vigil. Premiered in 1915 in Moscow, the piece consists of settings of texts taken from the Russian Orthodox all-night vigil ceremony. It has been praised as among Rachmaninov’s finest wor...
The Big Buckfast Abbey Quiz Night - October
Friday 7th October, 19:00 | £5.00
The Big Buckfast Abbey Quiz Night
Tickets cost £5 includes the cost of Curry.
There will be a bar to purchase drinks.
Why not get a team together to take part in the quiz
(groups of 6 to 8 people maximum).
West Devon Chorale: Masterpieces from Europe
Saturday 8th October 2022, 19:30 | £15.00
For their annual concert at the Abbey, West Devon Chorale explores some of the finest European choral music written for chamber choir. Their programme includes Palestrina Stabat Mater, Haydn Te Deum in C, Gorecki Totus Tuus & Vierne Messe Solennelle...
Grand-Orgue Recital: Matthew Searles
Saturday 22nd October 2022, 19:30 | £15.00
Assistant Master of the Music, Matthew Searles performs an all-Baroque programme in the first half of the concert, including de Grigny’s setting of the plainsong hymn for Pentecost, Veni creator, and music by J. S. Bach and Sweelinck. After the interval, Matthew e...
Collati Singers: Missa Brevis
Saturday 5th November 2022, 19:30 | £15.00
Collati Singers returns to Buckfast with a programme showcasing the choral music of contemporary composer, Jonathan Dove. They perform his Missa brevis, and the joyful anthem Seek him that maketh the seven stars, a setting of text from the Book of Amos and Ps...
Voces: Christus Rex!
Saturday 19th November 2022, 19:30 | £15.00
Sixteenth century choral music on the eve of Christ the King. Renaissance composers knew nothing of this Feast, which was only established in 1925, but they did often apply their art to celebrating Christ in majesty. This concert, by a choir specialising in music of the pe...
RSCM Advent Carol Service
Saturday 26th November 2022, 16:30 | Free Entry
A sequence of choral music, carols and scripture readings for the season of Advent.
Exeter Chamber Choir: Christmas a cappella
Saturday 3rd December 2022, 19:30 | £15.00
Exeter Chamber Choir presents an a cappella concert in celebration of the festive season.
Exeter Chamber Choir
Andrew Daldorph director
Rowcroft Hospice: Celebration of Christmas
Sunday 11th December 2022, 18:00 | Free Entry
Dartington Community Choir leads a carol service that celebrates the efforts of all those associated with the Rowcroft Hospice, staff, volunteers, patients and their families. We would like to take time in this service to remember all these people during the busyness of pr...
Abbey Choir: Christmas Fantasia
Saturday 10th December 2022, 19:30 | £15.00
Join the Abbey Choir and Orchestra for a programme of traditional music for the Christmas, including Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols and carols with audience participation.
The Choir & Orchestra of Buckfast Abbey
Ph...
Festival Carol Service
Saturday 17th December 2022, 15:00 | Free Entry
In the final days of our Advent journey, Buckfast Abbey presents a sequence of readings, traditional Christmas carols and choral music sung by the Abbey Choir.
