Southwell Minster to host shows including A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens and ‘Elvis by Candlelight’

Southwell Minster is set to bring a classic Christmas tale, a tribute to the King, and beautiful choral music to audiences this month.

Chapterhouse Theatre Company is presenting A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens at Southwell Minster on Thursday (November 14).

Charles Dickens’ classic ghost story is brought alive in this most traditional of productions, as the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is whisked away on a terrifying journey through the past and into the future, accompanied by three fearsome ghosts on Christmas Eve, determined to make him realize the true meaning of Christmas and melt his frozen heart and embrace the festive spirit.

Complete with beautiful period costume, song, dance, and a magnificent, original musical score, as well as authentic period costuming, this production promises to be the perfect accompaniment to the festive season.

Join family and friends at the most magical time of the year and be swept back in time nearly two centuries to the world of Scrooge’s London.

Doors open at 6.45pm and start time 7.30pm.

November 10 will see Music in the State Chamber by Matthew Spillett from 7.30pm to 8.30pm.

Currently a Lay Clerk at Southwell Minster, Matthew Spillett began singing as a chorister and choral scholar at Peterborough Cathedral, before training at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire.

He subsequently held posts at St Chad’s Cathedral, Birmingham, the Birmingham Oratory and Guildford Cathedral, alongside a career that has seen him perform throughout Europe and America.

Matthew will present a programme of German and English song, including Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte, Ian Venables’s Love’s Voice and Shiela McQuattie’s From the Percy Reliques.

Admission is free, with a retiring collection.

Then on Tuesday (November 12), Southwell Minster is set to be ‘all shook up’ as one of the UK’s leading Elvis tribute acts, along with an incredible live band, perform in ‘Elvis by Candlelight’.

Grab those ‘Blue Suede Shoes’ and enjoy an incredible night of hits, including Jail House Rock, Suspicious Minds, Devil in Disguise, The Wonder of You and many more

Featuring an incredible live band, epic backing vocalists and one of the UK’s leading Elvis tributes, don’t be ‘lonesome tonight’ and book your tickets now- they will definitely not be ‘returned to sender’!

Doors open at 6.45pm. with the show to run from 7.30pm to 9.30pm.

The Minster’s lunchtime concert on November 22, St Cecilia’s Day — the Patron Saint of Music — will be by Mariatu Kanneh-Mason, as part of the Friday Lunchtime At The Cathedral series.

The youngest of the seven famous members of the Kanneh-Mason family, Mariatu, 15, attends Trinity Catholic School in Nottingham and studies cello and piano at Junior Royal Academy of Music.

She has grade eight distinctions on cello and piano and she is working towards her piano diploma.

Her older siblings Isata, Braimah and Sheku all performed at the Proms this year, and Mariatu will be performing a programme including music by Bach, Rachmaninov, and Paganini, accompanied by Simon Parkin from the Royal Northern College of Music.

Her recital will take place from 1.30pm to 2.15pm.

Admission is free, with a retiring collection supporting the Minster’s Milo Chorister Fund.