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Abingdon is a beautiful town known for hosting numerous fun-filled events each year. We have current information about everything that's going on in Abingdon, from championship football games to the annual Ock Street Michaelmas Fair. Our handy website even provides you with news about local concerts and parades, as well as occasions worthy of bun-throwing from the top of the Abingdon County Hall Museum. No matter what you're looking for, you're sure to find it here.

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Huw  Rhys James Piano Recital
  • Sunday 14th September 3:00pm until 5:00pm
Please join us for an afternoon of exciting music performed by Huw Rhys James, Viennese conductor and concert pianist. Do bring your family and friends along to enjoy this programme of music by Haydn,... View event
Brass Extravaganza with Wantage Band
  • Sunday 14th September 4:00pm until 5:00pm
Wantage Band, the elite, championship selection band are joined by pupils from Abingdon School for some numbers to showcase the brass family in both its sonic majesty and subtlety in equal measure! View event
Ocean Film Festival World Tour 2025
  • Saturday 20th September 7:30pm until 10:00pm
Climb aboard for a night of ocean adventure! The Ocean Film Festival World Tour features a new collection of the world’s most incredible ocean films! View event
RBO Live: Tosca
  • Wednesday 1st October 6:45pm until 10:00pm
The splendour of Rome. The devastation of war. Puccini’s operatic thriller returns in an epic new production starring Anna Netrebko, Aleksandra Kurzak, Freddie De Tommaso and Gerald Finley.... View event
An Evening with Philippa Gregory
  • Tuesday 7th October 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Join Philippa Gregory, as she takes you on a journey through the history you thought you knew. View event
Simon Yates - Pleasure & Pain
  • Saturday 11th October 7:30pm until 9:30pm
Touching the Void’ mountaineer, Simon Yates, is a veteran of over eighty expeditions to high/remote mountains around the globe and shows no signs of slowing down. This is his story of the last decade,... View event
RBO Live: La Sonnambula
  • Tuesday 21st October 6:45pm until 10:00pm
Nadine Sierra summits another peak of the soprano repertoire as Amina, who sleepwalks her way into audiences’ hearts in Bellini’s poignant tale of love lost and found. This event will be streamed from... View event
AOS Presents: Hello Dolly!
AOS bring the smash-hit 60s musical to the Amey Theatre! Featuring well-known songs such as ‘Before the Parade Passes By’, ‘Put On Your Sunday Clothes’ and, of course, ‘Hello, Dolly!’ View event
In Conversation with Clare Balding
  • Monday 3rd November 7:00pm until 9:00pm
Join Mostly Books in welcoming Clare Balding to Abingdon to discuss her debut novel Pastures New. View event
RBO Live: La Fille mal gardée
  • Wednesday 5th November 7:15pm until 9:30pm
The Royal Ballet presents Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée. This affectionate portrayal of village life combines exuberant good humour and brilliantly inventive choreography in what is undoubtedly... View event
NT Live: Mrs Warren's Profession
  • Thursday 6th November 7:00pm until 8:45pm
Five-time Olivier Award winner Imelda Staunton (The Crown) joins forces with her real-life daughter Bessie Carter (Bridgerton) for the very first time, playing mother and daughter in Bernard Shaw’s incendiary... View event
NT Live: The Fifth Step
  • Tuesday 2nd December 7:00pm until 8:40pm
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David... View event
RBO Live: The Nutcracker
  • Wednesday 10th December 7:15pm until 9:45pm
Featuring Tchaikovsky’s most familiar melodies and brought to life by Julia Trevelyan Oman’s exquisite designs, The Nutcracker is sure to be a festive firecracker for all ages. This event will be streamed... View event
The Snowman Live with Wantage Band 2025
Listen to the Christmassy soundtrack of the 1982 popular short film played live along to a screening of the film itself! View event
RBO Live: La Traviata
  • Wednesday 14th January 6:45pm until 9:45pm
As intimate as it is sumptuous, La traviata features some of opera’s most famous melodies, and is a star vehicle for its leading soprano role sung by Ermonela Jaho. This event will be streamed from the... View event
NT Live: Hamlet
  • Thursday 22nd January 7:00pm until 10:00pm
Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultimate question – you know the one. View event
RBO Live: Woolf Works
  • Monday 9th February 7:15pm until 10:00pm
This Olivier-award winning Royal Ballet triptych captures the heart of Virginia Woolf’s uniquely artistic spirit. This event will be streamed from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. View event
Leo Houlding - Exposed
  • Saturday 28th February 7:30pm until 9:30pm
Join legendary climber Leo Houlding for his next new show, Exposed, a gripping live experience with stunning visuals, film, and storytelling from the world’s wildest places. View event
RBO Live: Giselle
  • Tuesday 3rd March 7:15pm until 9:30pm
Peter Wright's Giselle, set to Adolphe Adam's evocative score and with atmospheric designs by John Macfarlane will be streamed from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. View event
RBO Live: The Magic Flute
  • Tuesday 21st April 6:45pm until 10:00pm
Princess Pamina has been captured. Her mother, the Queen of the Night, tasks the young Prince Tamino with her daughter’s rescue. This event will be streamed from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. View event
RBO Live: Eugene Onegine
  • Tuesday 5th May 6:00pm until 10:05pm
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young heroine in this ardent operatic adaptation of Pushkin. This... View event