Our 2026 Festival Programme

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

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 – Jazz up the 80s with the Jay Rayner Sextet


Thursday 7th May

9am – Reflections on Drawn to Imperfection
6pm –Rokas 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 Portraits with Personality art workshop
2pm –Houses and History Walk

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

7.30pm Symphonic Abba – The Thames Valley Festival 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