King's Lynn Festival
An arts & music Festival based in King's Lynn, West Norfolk. Founded in 1951 by Ruth, Lady Fermoy.
When
☀️Summer festival
TBA
About
King’s Lynn Festival proudly announces its 75th Anniversary Festival, taking place over two weeks in July 2026 (12th–25th), marking three-quarters of a century of world-class music, arts and cultural celebration at the historic Hanseatic League port in the heart of West Norfolk. The Festival will once again fill the streets, churches and community spaces of King’s Lynn with a diverse programme of music, talks, exhibitions and events.
Festival highlights include Mark-Anthony Turnage as featured composer and artists including Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, Novo Quartet, baritone Roderick Williams, pianist Boris Giltburg, filial duo on cello and piano Sheku and Isata Kanneh-Mason, flamenco dancer Nuria Garcia and the Academy of Ancient Music, plus a talk on taste by writer Christopher Frayling.
Past events
Silly bees and nightly cares: Dowland songs
Dowland's Foundry
- Fri, 24 Jul 2026
All Saints' Church, King's Lynn
6:00pm
£17.50 (u25s £10.50)
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Before the guillotine
Dialogue Viols
- Sat, 18 Jul 2026
- St Nicholas' Chapel, King's Lynn
- 9:30pm
- £10 (u25s £6)
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The art of the Italian concerto
Academy of Ancient Music
- Sat, 18 Jul 2026
- St Nicholas' Chapel, King's Lynn
- 7:30pm
- £26 (u25s £15.50)
- King's Lynn Festival
Leipzig to Hamburg 1725
Anne Heemskerk | Kate Bennett Wadsworth | David Wright
- Fri, 17 Jul 2026
- All Saints' Church, King's Lynn
- 6:00pm
- £17.50 (u25s £10.50)
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Medieval Women in Song
Voice
- Fri, 25 Jul 2025
- All Saints Church, King's Lynn
- 6:00pm
- £17.50 (£13 students & U25)
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Brecon Baroque and Rachel Podger (violin)
Brecon Baroque
- Sat, 19 Jul 2025
- St Nicholas' Chapel, King's Lynn
- 7:00pm
- £25 (£15 students & U25)
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From Halle to Hamburg
Ensemble Hesperi
- Fri, 18 Jul 2025
- All Saints Church, King’s Lynn
- 6:00pm
- £17.50, £13 student, u25
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Dr Burney’s Teatime Music
Steven Devine | Kate Semmens
- Sun, 6 Oct 2024
- All Saints Church, King's Lynn
- 3:00pm
- £18, £9
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Steven Devine and friends
Steven Devine
- Sat, 5 Oct 2024
- All Saints Church, King's Lynn
- 7:00pm
- £18, £9
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Burney's Brass
Crispian Steele-Perkins (trumpet) and Ian Legrice (organ)
- Fri, 4 Oct 2024
- All Saints Church, Kings Lynn
- 7:00pm
- £16, £8
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Charles Burney Festival
Consone Quartet
- Fri, 27 Sep 2024
- King's Lynn Town Hall
- 11:00am
- £16 (under 25's 50% off)
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European Union Chamber Orchestra
- Sat, 20 Jul 2024
- St Nicholas' Chapel, King's Lynn
- 7:00pm
- £22 / under 25's 50% off
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Organ Recital
Harvey Stansfield
- Sat, 20 Jul 2024
- St Nicholas' Chapel, King's Lynn
- 12:00pm
- £12 / under 25's 50% off
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Ear Worm
Tabea Debus
- Fri, 19 Jul 2024
- All Saint's Church, King's Lynn
- 6:00pm
- £16 / Under 25s 50% off
- King's Lynn Festival
Location
King's Lynn, Norfolk
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