Welcome to the 2025 Music and Merriment Concert web page.

Music and Merriment Saturday 6 December 2025

Tickets are available HERE. Plans are well advanced with our talented soloists: Sarah, outstanding teenage violinist, and Sergey, mega-talented pianist aged 12 (here playing in an internationals concors for young pianists in Geneva). There will be a junior choir of 12 local children directed by Lucy Head, and an adult choir directed by William Bishop, St Mary’s Music Director; there will be St Mary’s handbells, our favourite brass players, the 5Ts Brass, and leading Berkshire organist Alan Rapley.

And there will be lots more, including entertaining readings, audience carols, not to mention mince-pies and mulled wine — free — at the interval!

Concert tickets

Online concert tickets are available HERE. You can also use the QR code at the top of this web-page. The flyer shown there will also be visible around Winkfield.

Adult tickets are £14, and 13s-and-under can have concession tickets at £7. Note that all performers enter free, and, for members of the Junior Choir, one parent can have a ticket at the concession price of £7.

Online ticket sales will not be available after 7pm on Friday 5 December.

Tickets can also be purchased (card or cash) at the door of St Mary's church before the concert on 6/12/25.

The Music and Merriment Concert 6/12/25

Music and Merriment is a big annual community Concert in St Mary's church Winkfield. It is a fund-raiser for the fabric and facilities of the church as a community asset.

This year it is being held at 7:30 pm on Saturday 6 December. It offers a full evening of entertainment for everybody, with adult and children’s choirs, festive readings, audience carols, handbells and instrumentalists, and more.

Our performers are people from our area: local singers, adult and children, local musicians, and other talented performers. In each concert we also have included performances by talented young musicians, as well as by excellent adult musicians.

Location of St Mary's church

The church is located on Church Road in the rural village of Winkfield, opposite the White Hart pub. It has a forecourt for limited parking, and for the concert itself there will be additional parking - the [General parking] button above for details. You can look at a map of the area by pressing the [Church location] button above. The postcode to be used for satnavs is SL4 4SF.

There is substantial off-road parking; roadside parking is unrestricted, and you will also be able to park in the White Hart pub car-park oppposite the church (patrons and non-patrons, by kind permission).

General management

The concert is run as a fund-raising project by the Friends of St Mary's Winkfield. All funds support the PCC of Winkfield by providing funds for the maintenance and the running of St Mary's church as a community asset.

General contact

If you have queries, comments or problems, please contact me:
Anthony Hodson, Concert Director, Tel: 01344 483347 or email aeh@xdotd.co.uk or info@fosmw.com"