SPECIAL EVENTS
As well as hosting events and concerts for local choirs, orchestras and community groups,
St Saviour's has an annual programme of special events and promotions to which all are very welcome!
You can go straight to our online box office here, or use the links provided with the event listings below.
Look out for our live music events listed on
Thursday 4 June 2026, 8pm
Choral Mass for the feast of Corpus Christi
Sung by St Saviour's Parish Choir.
Corpus Christi is a celebration of the presence of Christ with us in the liturgy of the Mass, and falls on the Thursday after Trinity Sunday.
Music includes the Missa in Simplicitate by Jean Langlais, Tantum ergo by Deodat de Severac and Ave verum corpus by Gabriel Faure.
Followed by refreshments
Saturday 6 June 2026, 7.30pm
Chris Newman
& Maire Ni Chathasaigh
ST ALBANS FOLK FESTIVAL CONCERT
presented by St Albans Folk Music.
Enjoy the music of the longstanding partnership of this virtuoso guitarist and award-winning Irish harpist.
Friday 12 June 2026, 4-9pm
Street Food Heroes
If you love street food (and why wouldn't you?!) then get yourself along to the fourth of this year's #foodfestfridays! The best of local street vendors, plus mobile DJ and licensed bar, are open between 4pm and 9pm.
Saturday 13 June 2026, 7 - 11pm
Gospeloke Live!
Come and sing your favourite songs on stage with a LIVE GOSPEL CHOIR - no singing experience needed!
Fully licensed bar!
18+ only!
Street Food!
Tickets £25
Friday 10 - Sunday 12 July 2026
Beer & Fizz Festival
Now in it's 8th year, St Saviour's Beer & Fizz is fast becoming St Albans' favourite summer beer festival. Amazing food stalls, an impressive range of sparkling wines & champagnes curated by Cellar Door Wines and a heavenly selection of cask ales & lager generously donated by our local pubs and businesses! Live music lineup includes The Carnegies (Fri) and Pat & the Butchers (Sat). The countdown and the *research* has already begun!!
Friday 24 July 2026, 7.30pm
Edwina Hayes in Concert
If you heard Edwina fill St Saviour's with her pure & easy vocals in July 2025, then you won't want to miss her return in 2026! Described as 'one of the best singer-songwriters this country has produced in years', she blends the best of Yorkshire and Nashville and promises the perfect of Summer evenings under the stars (well, fairy lights!). Save the date!
Tickets £17.50
Friday 14 August 2026, 4-9pm
Street Food Heroes
If you love street food (and why wouldn't you?!) then get yourself along to this year's penultimate #foodfestfridays! The best of local street vendors, plus mobile DJ and licensed bar, are open between 4pm and 9pm.
Friday 11 September 2026, 4-9pm
Street Food Heroes
If you love street food (and why wouldn't you?!) then get yourself along to the last of this year's #foodfestfridays! The best of local street vendors, plus mobile DJ and licensed bar, are open between 4pm and 9pm.
NEW AUTUMN DATE: Sunday 27 Sept, 4pm
Choral Evensong
& Rededication of Organ
A special service to mark the completion of the Organ Restoration Project, including the rededication of the organ by The Rt Revd Steven Venner (Hon. Assistant Bishop).
Followed by a drinks reception - all welcome to join the celebrations!
Saturday 5 December 2026, 7.30pm
Tim Edey in Concert
Tim has toured the world and recorded with most of the major names in Celtic & Contemporary roots music. Now a name on the world stage in his own right after 17 years of hard work, he is rated by many to be one of the world's finest ever Melodoen and Guitar players in the folk & contemporary scene today!
Tickets £17.50
Friday 26 - Sunday 28 February, 2027
Parish Retreat at Pleshey
As part of St Saviour's 125th Anniversary year, we will welcome Br Tobias SSF to lead our annual retreat. We return to the House of Retreat in Pleshey, Essex for a weekend of prayer, reflection and worship.
More details of the weekend's theme will be announced in due course, along with costs and booking details.
Br Tobias is a professed member of the First Order of The Society of St Francis and based in Plaistow, East London.
Saturday 13 March 2027, 7.30pm
Mark Harrison
Mark is an established, multi-award-nominated singer-songwriter and guitarist with an ever-growing reputation for being unlike any other artist out there. He performs all-original songs in his own very individual style, with elements of rock, folk, blues & Americana. He has been frequently featured on BBC Radio, including the Radio 2 Pick of the Week show and the Radio 2 Folk Show, and he and his band have been live guests on Cerys Matthews’s Radio 2 show.
www.markharrissonrootsmusic.com
Tickets £17.50