Ongoing dates. We are proud to have an ongoing programme of book talks in association with Rossiter Books. Forthcoming events are: to be announced. In the meantime please see: https://rossiterbooks.co.uk/category/forthcoming-events/
Monmouth Big Band Concert
Saturday 18th April, 7.30 – St Mary’s Church Monmouth Big Band’s sound is lively, upbeat and swinging. Big band repertoire spreads back nearly a hundred years, with so much variety of style and feel – all of it sizzling with that quintessential vibrant sound. The music will cascade off the stage with all the vibrancy…
Conversations Over Lunch – Free lunchtime talks.
Usually on the third Wednesday of each month (April – October) at 1.00pm. New for 2025, and following the success of St Mary’s FREE lunchtime concert series, we offer a season of FREE lunchtime talks. Please feel free to bring your lunch; any of the excellent food outlets on High Street will be happy to…
PAST EVENT: AGM 2025
Wednesday 25th June, 7.00pm. Join us for our AGM, over a glass of wine. All members of The Friends are welcome. There is no event after the meeting this year; there is so much going on at other times. We are asking all members of The Friends who make an oging donation to complete a…
PAST EVENT: Music in Country Churches for OPEN GARDENS 2025
Saturday 31st May at 6.30pm & Sunday 1st June 2025 at 4.00pm We are delighted to be working with Music in Country Churches to host two major concerts over the weekend of Open Gardens. Saturday 31st May, 6.30pm – The English Chamber Orchestra Wind Ensemble ProgrammeLudwig van Beethoven (1770–1827): Octet, Op. 103 Beethoven: Rondino in E flat…
PAST EVENT: OPEN GARDENS 2025
Saturday 31st May & Sunday 1st June 2025 Our big event returns in 2025. We are hoping, once more to have may exciting gardens on offer for you to visit across the weekend. Right now we are recruiting gardeners and gardens. Please onsider opening your garden. If you will please contact us
PAST EVENT – Book Talk: My Family and Other Rock Stars
Thursday 15th May, 7.00pm Tiffany Murray will talk about her unique childhood in and around Ross on Wye, Monmouth and Rockfield Studios. My Family and Other Rock Stars is Tiff’s remarkable, truly unique story of growing up in a rural idyll, of Cordon Bleu cookery and of a childhood where the chances of bumping into…
PAST EVENT: Tea Dance with Monmouth Big Band
Sunday 4th May, 2.00pm One of St Mary’s contributions to the town’s 80th anniversary of VE Day celebrations. It’s also an event in the new Herefordshire Histories Festival. We are delighted to welcome back Monmouth Big Band to lead the dancing. Afternoon Tea will be provided. SOLD OUT – you can join a waiting list…
PAST EVENT: Book Talk: The Wye Valley Walk
Wednesday 2nd April 2025, 7.00pm – St Mary’s Church. This year is the 50th birthday of the Wye Valley Walk, which started as short sections between Chepstow, Monmouth and Ross in 1975 and gradually extended to become the 138 mile classic long distance route which attracts walkers from across the UK and round the world….
PAST EVENT: Book Talk: Church Going – Andrew Ziminski
Thursday 6th March 2025, 7.00pm – St Mary’s Church. Churches are many things to us – they are places of worship, vibrant community hubs and oases of calm reflection. To know a church is to hold a key to the past that unlocks an understanding of our shared history. Andrew Ziminski has spent decades as…
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