Southwell Minster to host popular bank holiday organ concerts, and Organ Festival to celebrate return of instrument from overhaul

A cathedral’s popular bank holiday organ concerts are to return for 2025 — with additional performances to mark the return of its organ.

Southwell Minster’s bank holiday concert programme will begin on April 21, with a performance by the cathedral’s own Timothy Selman.

Then, on May 5, Philip White-Jones of Lancing College will perform, and on May 26, it will be the turn of Bury St Edmunds’ James Thomas.

The series will conclude on August 25 with the Minster’s Paul Provost.

The bank holiday concerns are free to attend with a retiring collection, and begin at 3.30pm.

The cathedral will host more performances as part of an Organ Festival celebrating the return of the Nicholson Quire Organ from overhaul.

These will begin on May 21, when concert organist Tom Bell will play works from Bach, Messiaen, and Alain.

On June 11 the Royal Academy of Music’s Anthony Gritten will perform Widor, Roth, and Alain, and on July 9 Timothy Selman will bring the sounds of Stanford, Cochereau, and Widor.

Two further performances will come from Tewkesbury’s James Lancelot on September 17, with the works of Rheinberger, Vierne, and Dupré, and Jonathan Allsopp of the Minster on October 8, playing Bach, Tournemire, and Pott.

The festival concerts begin at 7.30pm and are £10 on the door.