Motown Christmas by Candlelight

Motown Christmas by Candlelight comes to Gloucester Cathedral on Saturday 5 December, with a live band and a cast of vocalists performing Motown hits with a Christmas twist. The set draws from the biggest names of the era, with songs by The Supremes, The Temptations, Diana Ross, Stevie Wonder, The Commodores and Marvin Gaye. The whole thing is played by candlelight in the Nave, so it's the Motown songbook rather than a Christmas concert in the usual sense.

The venue is the Nave of Gloucester Cathedral, 12 College Green, GL1 2LX. It's one of the finest medieval buildings in the country and the burial place of royalty, with architecture spanning more than a thousand years, from Norman through Perpendicular to the present day. Stonemasons still carve and cast on site, and the fan-vaulted medieval cloisters and the Great East Window are national treasures. The Lady Chapel houses some of the finest Arts & Crafts glass in the country. Seating is unreserved and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis, and the cathedral has a bar.

There are two sittings on the night. For the first, doors open at 5:45pm and the show runs from 6:15 to 7:30pm. The second opens at 8:00pm, with the show from 8:30 to 9:45pm. Tickets are VIP £40, Premium £35, Band A £30, and Side Aisles (with no view) £10, plus a £4.50 booking fee on each. There's also an Access Ticket for £30, which includes a free Carer Ticket.