Upcoming Events

8 “on site” 3-hour lessons exclusively at the Bee barn and our teaching apiary here at the Abbey. Each group will be no more than 6 people. Clean bee suits available to borrow. Gloves provided. Notes to each session will be provided as PDF attachments, or as hard copie...

Spend some time with our bees and learn about their lifecycle, environment, and their importance to our world. Starting at 11am and finishing at 3pm, this day will include lunch and refreshments.

You will be given the opportunity to dress up in a bee suit and experience...

The Abbey Choir & Orchestra presents an all-Mozart programme, including his celebrated setting of the Requiem Mass, which remained uncompleted at his death in 1791. Alongside the Requiem will be an Epistle Sonata and his well-known setting of Ave verum corpus...

Queen Rearing

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. This...

Buckfast Abbey Organist, David Davies, presents a dynamic and colourful programme to explore the range of the Ruffatti organ.

David Davies organ

Alvington Singers returns to Buckfast to perform a programme of sacred music spanning 400 years, from Orlando Gibbons to John Tavener. The centerpiece of the programme is Benjamin Britten’s cantata Rejoice in the Lamb, based on a poem by Christopher Smart and comm...

Brent Singers performs a popular programme of Baroque music with orchestra, including Vivaldi Gloria and Purcell Come, ye sons of art, away.

Brent Singers & Orchestra
Matthew Searles director

If you are booking a pre-concert meal please take you...

Summer 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. ...

David Acres returns to Buckfast after a seven year break with his choir from South Carolina, The King’s Counterpoint. Members of The King’s Counterpoint, and their sister choir Contrapunctus from Cleveland, Ohio join together to bring a wonderfully eclectic choice of s...

Join Buckfast Abbey Choristers and Lay Clerks for a recital of sacred music spanning the 16th to the 21st centuries, to mark the end of the academic year.

Choristers & Lay Clerks of Buckfast Abbey
Matthew Searles director
David Davies organ

Titular organist of Poitiers Cathedral (France) and professor at the Paris Conservatoire, Olivier Houette performs a virtuosic recital including his own transcription of the Second Orchestral Suite by Bach, Mendelssohn’s delightful Variations sérieuses and Widor ...

Join the boy choristers and lay vicars of Truro Cathedral Choir for a splendid evening of choral music spanning Byrd to Chilcott, culminating in Fauré’s beautiful setting of the Requiem. Opening with traditional American spiritual Shenandoah, their program...

This family friendly musical will be an incredible mix of amazing adventure, magical music, comical characters and swashbuckling sword fights. The whole family will be entertained, from the youngest to the eldest and we will give you an experience you’ll be talking about...

Building on the success of our recent Christmas Market, we are delighted to announce that Buckfast Abbey will host a Summer Fair over three days, Thursday 4th, Friday 5th and Saturday 6th August.

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...

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. ...

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...

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

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
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).

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 and Gorecki Totus Tuus.

West Devon Chorale
M...

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 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...

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...

A sequence of choral music, carols and scripture readings for the season of Advent.

Exeter Chamber Choir presents an a cappella concert in celebration of the festive season.

Exeter Chamber Choir
Andrew Daldorph director

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...

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.