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
Sun, 12 July 2026 — Sat, 25 July 2026
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.
Events
Leipzig to Hamburg 1725
Anne Heemskerk | Kate Bennett Wadsworth | David Wright
- Fri, 17 July 2026
All Saints' Church, King's Lynn
6:00pm
£17.50 (u25s £10.50)
King's Lynn Festival
The art of the Italian concerto
Academy of Ancient Music
- Sat, 18 July 2026
- St Nicholas' Chapel, King's Lynn
- 7:30pm
- £26 (u25s £15.50)
- King's Lynn Festival
Before the guillotine
Dialogue Viols
- Sat, 18 July 2026
- St Nicholas' Chapel, King's Lynn
- 9:30pm
- £10 (u25s £6)
- King's Lynn Festival
Silly bees and nightly cares: Dowland songs
Dowland's Foundry
- Fri, 24 July 2026
- All Saints' Church, King's Lynn
- 6:00pm
- £17.50 (u25s £10.50)
- King's Lynn Festival
Location
King's Lynn, Norfolk
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