Where is it?
St Marylebone Parish Church is in the heart of Marylebone, located just next to the Marylebone High Street in Central London. Both the church and the area are filled with incredible heritage, something which our Festival really focuses on bringing to life.
How to get there?
St Marylebone Parish Church is located close to a number of stations and buses, including Marylebone, Kings Cross, St Pancras and Euston. The two closest tube stations are Baker Street or Great Portland Street (around a five minute walk) and Marylebone Road is serviced by bus numbers 18, 205, 27, 30, 453 and N18.
Why visit the festival?
The St Marylebone Festival is a week full on incredible concerts and events, a huge mixture of everything means that there is something for everyone to enjoy – from music to theatre and heritage to community engagement.
What are the venues like?
St Marylebone Parish Church is one of the largest and most important public buildings in the area, dedicated to supporting and sustaining our community. The church built in 1817 is the fourth parish church of St Marylebone – with plenty of incredibly heritage and famous faces connected to our grade I-listed building the church is an incredible place to sit back and enjoy the amazing music and ambience.
Local accommodation
There are plenty of hotels in Marylebone and London, but normally visitors would not need to stay in the area
What can tourists visit nearby?
Regent’s Park,
Madame Tussauds
Food & Drink
There are plenty of places for food and drink around St Marylebone Parish Church at all times.
What type of programmes does the festival have?
Every year, our festival as part of the St Marylebone Changing Lives project, tells the stories of our local community in creative and vivid ways. Join us for a week of music, dance and drama. There is a South-American flavour to this year’s programme. So, with this is mind, learn how to tango with experts from Arthur Murray Dance Studios, or join Joanna MacGregor and her amazing band of musicians for their ‘Tango Nuevo’ evening, or even enjoy food, drink and music at our ‘South American Soirée’.
This year, other highlights include a 'Come and Sing' with John Rutter, a 150th birthday celebration of Ralph Vaughan Williams with The Joyful Company of Singers. new Marylebone-themed song commissions by Royal Academy of Music composers sung by international counter-tenor Andrew Watts, a new Charles Dickens piece written and devised by composer Martin Bussey, and the Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, in a concert that charts our connection with the Wesley family. And if that was not enough, we celebrate some of our lesser known, and perhaps more surprising, local figures such as Vaslav Nijinsky, Florence Nightingale, the late clarinettist Alan Hacker, and even Madonna!
Dress code
The event will be inside, there is no specific dress code and it is often a very warm week in England.