Schools from Swindon, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire come together for a Christmas festival of song with up to 1,000 children and professional musicians across four performances.
The Swindon and Wiltshire Christmas Voice Festival returns to the Wyvern Theatre on Wednesday 18 November, with the first performance starting at 4:45pm. It's a tradition that comes around every November, and this year it's getting a bit bigger. Schools from across Swindon and Wiltshire have always been the core of it, but Gloucestershire is joining the mix for the first time.
Across four performances, up to 1,000 children from different schools take to the stage. They sing much-loved Christmas songs from across the ages, and they don't do it alone — they're backed by professional musicians from Swindon and Wiltshire Music. It's a big, communal thing: kids from different schools sharing the stage rather than each one having their own slot, and the professional musicians keeping them on track. The songs are the ones most of us grew up with, the classics that work as well in a theatre as they do in a classroom.
The festival is part of the Swindon Theatres and Swindon and Wiltshire Music programmes, so it sits right in the middle of the town's music and theatre scene. The audience watches from a seated room in the Main Auditorium, and the venue is in Theatre Square, just a short walk from the station, which makes it an easy one to get to if you're coming in from outside the town centre.
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With four performances running, there's a bit of choice in when you go. The first one kicks off at 4:45pm on Wednesday 18 November at the Wyvern Theatre, in Theatre Square, Swindon.
