Name: Carols by Candlelight- Bath Bach Choir
Start: 2024-12-19T19:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-12-19T20:00:00+00:00
Location: Pump Rooms

Four short entertainments for Christmas
Thursday 19 December 2024
Friday 20 December 2024
7.00–8.00pm | 8.30–9.30pm

Carols by Candlelight has been a diary fixture since 1947 when Bath Bach Choir first presented an intimate evening of carols and Christmas music by candlelight in the Roman Baths’ atmospheric Pump Room. For the 2024 edition, the choir presents four short concerts, each just an hour long to fit conveniently into everyone’s pre-Christmas evening calendars.
This year’s Pump Room programme contains the familiar mix of sacred pieces, lively arrangements of well-known carols and cosy old chestnuts from Christmas movies to get everyone in the mood for fireside celebrations. There will also be a nod to Gustav Holst, that pedlar of classic Christmas tunes such as ‘In the bleak midwinter’ and ‘Good Christian men rejoice’, 150 years after his birth.
Voices for Life Bath Children’s Choir will make a welcome return for the early performances, adding the pure sound of young voices to the evening’s line-up. For the later performances, we are delighted to be joined by Belinda Gifford-Guy, BBC Young Chorister of the Year 2023. As is traditional, there will be key moments for the audience to join in where invited.
Come along and help light up the Pump Room in celebration of the true start of Christmas.
Voices for Life Bath Children’s Choir
Belinda Gifford-Guy BBC Young Chorister of the Year 2023
Marcus Sealy accompanist
Benedict Collins Rice conductor