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A drop of golden sun: the BBC Concert Orchestra presents a 90th birthday salute to Dame Julie Andrews.

Friday Night is Music Night: Julie Andrews at 90

Alexandra Palace Theatre

The BSO has brought you ABBA, Queen and Disco and this year we celebrate the 80s and a symphonic party of smash hits from the era of new romantics, big hair and even bigger shoulder pads! Classic tracks feature some of the biggest hits of the decade by Madonna, Toto, Ultravox, Elton John, Bonnie Tyler, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, A-Ha, George Michael and many more. All this plus our usual fantastic fireworks and pyrotechnics!

Symphonic Smash Hits – the 80s! Meyrick Park Proms 2025

The Club at Meyrick Park

Dreaming of a White Christmas? Tonight, holiday wishes come true as we invite you to the most glamorous Christmas party in town. A team of top West End vocalists present a glittering evening of seasonal favourites – the songs everyone loves, from Let it Snow to Santa Baby, wrapped up with a bow and delivered with a swing by the fabulous full Orchestra. You’d better believe it’s the most wonderful time of the year!

White Christmas

Royal Liverpool Philharmonic

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’s much-loved Christmas Cracker concert returns to Cadogan Hall.

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Christmas Cracker

Cadogan Hall 

Richard Balcombe conducts the BBC Concert Orchestra, singers Katie Birtill and Graham Bickley and bass clarinet player Derek Hannigan in dance related light music.

Friday Night is Music Night: Invitation to the Dance

BBC Maida Vale Studios

It was a sad day in February 2023 when the world heard that Burt Bacharach had died. Tonight’s tribute includes many of his most famous songs, including ‘Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head’, ‘What The World Needs Now’, ‘Do You Know The Way to San Jose’, ‘Walk on By’, ‘Close to You’… he wrote the kind of tunes that you know without even realising it. They’re the soundtrack to an era – the easiest of easy listening, with an irresistible swing. Tonight, in the stunning surroundings of the Hall, the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and an all-star cast of vocalists give them the deluxe treatment.

What The World Needs Now: A Tribute to Burt Bacharach

The BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Roderick Dunk and star vocalists Katie Birtill and Emma Kershaw for a celebration of the very best of Broadway and the West End.

Broadway... and All That Jazz

Chichester Festival Theatre

Conductor Stephen Bell will help you get into the Christmas spirit with songs and music performed by the award-winning Hallé, our impressive vocal ensembles and exceptionally versatile vocalists, Oliver Tompsett and Katie Birtill.

Hallé Christmas Cracker

The Bridgewater Hall

A team of show-stopping vocalists and the full Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra will transport you back in time with a programme packed with 80s-tastic smash hits. Dig out those deelyboppers, pull on your dancing shellsuit and moonwalk back to the decade that taste forgot with songs by George Michael, David Bowie, Blondie, Elton John, Ultravox, Madonna, The Human League and maybe even a couple of seasonal surprises!

Symphonic 80s

Deck the halls and get ready for the most wonderful time of the year with the Hallé’s Christmas Cracker – a festive extravaganza bursting with toe-tapping classics including Merry Christmas Everyone and All I Want for Christmas, the magical sounds of Polar Express, the sultry delights of Santa Baby and nostalgic hits like Last Christmas and Driving Home for Christmas.

Let the Hallé add a little extra sparkle to your festive season with a selection box of your all-time favourite Christmas hits.

The Hallé – Christmas Cracker

Continue your festive season with BBC National Orchestra of Wales this Christmas with a cracker of a concert featuring all your favourite Christmas songs from White Christmas, Let It Snow, Sleigh Ride and It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas, to Santa Baby, When a Child is Born and All I Want for Christmas.

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Events

Upcoming events

Dec 12, 2025

Christmas Cracker · The Hallé

Dec 12, 2025

The Hallé – Christmas Cracker · The Bridgewater Hall

Dec 19, 2025

BBC NOW - Christmas Celebrations · Brangwyn Hall

Past events

Sep 12, 2025

Friday Night is Music Night: Julie Andrews at 90 · BBC Concert Orchestra

Aug 9, 2025

Symphonic Smash Hits – the 80s! Meyrick Park Proms 2025 · Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

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