Our 2026 Festival Programme – almost!

(Details may change slightly and events be added until tickets go on sale)

Friday 1st May

Scarecrow Trail – Historical figures (to 10th May)
Drawn to Imperfection – Festival Art Exhibition by David Nevard (to 10th May)
Community Art Installation with Emma Coleman-Jones (to 10th May)
6.30pm – The Festival Launch Party


Saturday 2nd May

9.30am – Family Dog Show
10.30am to 4.30pm – Local Artists exhibition (to 10th May)
12noon – Grand Opening and Tower Abseil
1pm Cygnets Art School (age 5-13) – Spring
2pm – Amici della Voce
3pm – Cygnets Art School(age 5-13) – Anime
4pm – Dr Xa Sturgis CBE – Illusion in Art
7.30pm – Brian Bilston
8pm – Open Mic


Sunday 3rd May

5am – Dawn Chorus Walk (followed by breakfast)
10.30am – Festival Family Service

12.30 to 4.30pm – Tentertainment!
1pm –  Silver Clay Jewellery Workshop
2.30pm – Violin & Piano Recital Jeremy Boughton & Sharon Warnes

5pm – Duck Race
7.30pm – The Kings Singers

Bank Holiday Monday 4th May

10am – Willow Weaving Workshop
11am – Festival Charity Fun Run
12noon to 4pm –Science mad!
1pm – Science show – Amazing Air
2pm – Vicar Custard Walk
2.30pm – Science Show – Space and Time
3.30pm – La Boheme in the Manor House Garden
7.30pm – Folk Night – Steve Knightley & Rusty Shackle


Tuesday 5th May

7.30pm – Jazz Supper with Cate Cody


Wednesday 6th May

7.30pm – Jay Rayner Jazz Sextet


Thursday 7th May

9am – Reflections on Drawn to Imperfection
6pm –Raku Valuntonis – Pianist
7.30pm – Comedy Night 

Friday 8th May

12noon – Music for Autistic Schools
7.30pm – Liza Pulman Sings Streisand
7.30pm – Pour my Bluff  


Saturday 9th May

10am to 5pm – Food & Gift Fair
10am-2.30pm –Latte Art Masterclasses
10am – Quintessential
10am – Pet Portrait Workshop
10am – Gypsy Baker Sourdough workshop
2pm –Houses and History Walk

2pm – Curry Masterclass
2pm, 3.15pm, 4.30pm -Mad Hatters Tea Party

7.30pm Abba Illuminated – The Thames Valley Film Orchestra
8pm Birdsong Walk – Evensong


Sunday 12th May

10am – Skogen Cinnamon Bun Workshop
10.30am – Festival Service with Revd Dr Malcolm Guite
12noon to 5pm – Food & Gift Fair
1pm – Lego Masterbuilders Club
2pm – Malcolm Guite – Poetry and the Life of the Spirit

3.30pm – Lego Masterbuilders Club

7.30pm – Big Lights Big Band Night – BBC Elstree Concert Band & Oxford Collutorium Singers


Sunday 31st May

10am – John Rutter Come & Sing