Forthcoming Events
Highlights for 2025-6 will include music for St Cecilia's Day in November, Holy Week and Summer concerts, and a 'come and sing' event, along with our normal Cathedral services. Further information below, or you can download this season's brochure here.
2025
Saturday 8th November
Come & Sing: Glorious Works
Vivaldi Gloria
Haydn The Heavens Are Telling and Achieved Is the Glorious Work from Creation
Blackburn Cathedral, 2-5pm
Singers £15 (Tickets and more information available here)
Informal performance at 4.30pm, free entry.
Saturday 22nd November
St Cecilia's Day Concert
Including Howells Hymn to St Cecilia, and pieces by Vaughan-Williams, Benjamin Britten and C. V. Stanford
St Silas Church, Blackburn, 7.30pm
Tickets (£10, free for students) available on the door
Thursday 18th December
Carol Service
Blackburn Cathedral (time t.b.c.)
2026
Monday 2nd February
Candlemas (service)
Blackburn Cathedral, 7:30pm
Wednesday 1st April
“Ash Wednesday to Easter” – a Holy Week concert
Journey through Holy Week with a moving programme of choral and organ music from Ash Wednesday to Easter Day, featuring works by Mendelssohn, David Briggs, Maurice Greene, Peter Nardone, and Kenneth Leighton.
Blackburn Cathedral, 7:30pm
Thursday 14th May
Ascension Day (service)
Blackburn Cathedral, 7.30pm
Saturday 11th July
Summer Concert
Haydn: Nelson Mass
Hosking: Requiem
Blackburn Cathedral, 7.30pm
Blackburn Chamber Choir
Blackburn Cathedral, Cathedral Office, Cathedral Close, Blackburn, BB1 5AA
Telephone: 01254 277 436
