CCS Family Carols has become a much-loved part of Christmas for so many in Canterbury – a joyful mix of everyone’s favourites with some less well-known but highly engaging Christmas music from the UK and beyond.

Join them for a festive celebration featuring carols for all the family, including Away in a Manger, Once in Royal David's City, O come, All Ye Faithful, The First Nowell, and a selection of carols performed by Canterbury Choral Society and its Youth Choir.

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Canterbury Choral Society presents Family Carols

Canterbury Cathedral

To mark the 50th anniversary of Benjamin Britten's death, Canterbury Choral Society and Youth Choir will perform his popular cantata St Nicolas. This inventive work features dramatic storms and shipwrecks alongside touching scenes from the saint's life, with audience participation in two hymns.

Joining the choir are the world-renowned London Mozart Players, who will also perform two of the finest English works for string orchestra by Elgar and Vaughan Williams.

Together with Holst's moving Psalm 86, this promises to be an evening of rich enchantment and powerful storytelling.

Canterbury Choral Society presents Britten: St Nicolas

An opportunity to hear Verdi’s great choral masterpiece, as Canterbury Choral Society and its Youth Choir demonstrate their power and expressive range in this dramatic work.

Verdi, the opera composer, combines his operatic roots in the great arias with a sense of universal spaciousness in the choruses of telling splendour. One of the most enduring choral favourites from the 19th century, the Requiem brings together a wide-ranging palette combining all his finest attributes – touching lyricism, luxuriant orchestral colour, and choruses which range from the whispered to earth-shattering fortissimos, stretching soloists and choir alike to extremes.

Canterbury Choral Society

Dec 17, 2025

Canterbury Choral Society presents Family Carols

Jan 24, 2026

Canterbury Choral Society presents Britten: St Nicolas

Jun 20, 2026

Canterbury Choral Society present Verdi: Requiem

Canterbury Choral Society