Visit The Malverns

Malvern: The Culture and The Cure (Malvern Walking Festival)
2025-06-01 14:30 - 16:00 (Europe/London)
Starting at the Florence Nightingale bench in Church Street, this is an entertaining and informative circular walk around Great Malvern led by a Civic Society guide. The emphasis will be on the town’s varied cultural history, as well as its role as a centre for the controversial Water Cure in the 19th Century. We’ll hear about such artistic luminaries as Sir Edward Elgar, Dame Laura Knight, George Bernard Shaw, Jenny Lind, Evelyn Waugh, CS Lewis and Elizabeth Barret Browning and their connections to Malvern. Plus how the Water Cure attracted the great and the good to this small Worcestershire town, and how it was the starting point for one of Victorian England’s greatest scandals! Duration: approx 90 minutes. The route will include The Priory, Belle Vue Terrace, The Unicorn, Dr Gully and Dr Wilson’s Water Cure Establishments and Priory Park.
Due to the hilly nature of the town this is sadly not suitable for those with mobility issues. Includes one steep descent down steps. No stiles.
£5.00
Distance: 1 miles
Duration: 1.5 hours
Difficulty: Easy
Date: 1 June
Start time: 2:30 pm
Walk leader: Nick St George
Start location: The Florence Nightingale Bench, Church St, Great Malvern (near Malvern Tourist Information Centre)
Church Street
Great Malvern
WR14 2AY
Grid reference: SO776459
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Further details:
Nearest parking: Grange Road, Edith Walk, St Ann’s Road. Approx 10 mins walk from Great Malvern station.

Music in the Park 2025
2025-06-01 14:30 - 16:30, 2025-06-08 14:30 - 16:30 | Priory Park, Great Malvern
Back for 2025, join Malvern Town Council for an 18-week programme running throughout the summer months (with the exception of 6 July) that will see bands from around Worcestershire coming to play in the Priory Park Bandstand. There is something for everyone, with many genres covered over the season including brass band, jazz, pop, folk, blues and many more.
All concerts run from 2.30pm – 4.30pm (except 17 August 2025, when there will be an earlier start with an additional band at 1pm) and are free to attend.
Bring a rug or folding chair to sit on if you wish. It’s just a three-minute walk from the park to some of Great Malvern’s wide range of shops and cafes, where you can purchase a drink, lunch or treat to enjoy whilst listening to the music. This is a family-friendly event and well-behaved dogs are welcome (on a lead) in Priory Park.
Programme for 2025
Sunday 11 May: Worcestershire Youth Concert Band
Sunday 18 May: Waiting for Gary
Sunday 25 May: Impact Steel
Sunday 1 June: Appleby Stone
Sunday 8 June: Malvern Hills District Brass Band
Sunday 15 June: Sunset Levels
Sunday 22 June: West Coast Sound
Sunday 29 June: Band yet to be confirmed
Sunday 13 July: Band yet to be confirmed
Sunday 20 July: The Barflys
Sunday 27 July: Family3Steel Band
Sunday 3 August: Totally Stu’d
Sunday 10 August: Nothin’ but Dust
Sunday 17 August: Tewkesbury Town Band (preceded by additional band at 1pm)
Sunday 24 August: Lee Richardson & Friends
Sunday 31 August: Bourbon Alley
Sunday 7 September: Flat Tonic
Sunday 14 September: Worcester Concert Band – cancelled due to weather

Irina Lyakhovskaya & Members of the Quattro String Quartet
2025-06-01 15:00 - 16:30 | Elmslie House, WR14 3AG
Irina Lyakhovskaya (piano) performs alongside members of the Quattro String Quartet – Eleanor Percy (violin), Tamasin Cline (viola) and Bryony Moody (cello) – to play Mozart’s Piano Quartet in G minor (K478) and Brahms’s Piano Quartet in G minor Op. 25.
Doors open at 2.30pm and recital starts at 3pm.
Tickets: £15 – available online in advance or on the door

Exhibition: 15 Sketchbooks
2025-06-02 08:00 - 2025-06-30 17:00 | Malvern Library, Graham Road, Malvern, Worcs, WR14 2HU
Art exhibition by Jeanette McCulloch: 2 – 30 June 2025 (check opening times online)
Jeanette McCulloch, a local artist and art teacher, shares 15 of her sketchbooks which illustrate a variety of themes. These include work made in-situ in Manchester Museum, Egyptian galleries, paintings made sitting in Kew Gardens glass houses and paintings of pottery sherds made in Hereford Resource Museum.
The exhibition at Malvern Library runs during June 2025. For Library opening times, visit the Worcestershire County Council website. Admission is free.

Exhibition: Day to Night
2025-06-03 08:00 - 2025-06-26 17:00 | Malvern Library, Graham Road, Malvern, Worcs, WR14 2HU
Art exhibition by Kim Whitby: 3 – 26 June 2025 (see opening times online)
In this new exhibition at Malvern Library, local artist Kim Whitby takes us through her unique creative process – from initial sketches and plans to colour palette inspirations and colour mixing that lead to the final finished piece. We get to see the developmental drawings and paintings for a modern Arts and Crafts-inspired frieze. An Arts and Crafts frieze is a decorative band on a wall often above a picture rail or panelling which was popular during the Arts and Crafts period, made either from printed wallpaper or painted directly.
Don’t miss this opportunity! For library opening times, please visit the Worcestershire County Council website. Admission is free.

The Illegal Eagles
2025-06-04 19:30 - 22:00 | Malvern Theatres, WR14 3HB
Celebrating more than 50 years since the formation of the legendary West Coast country rock band The Eagles in 1971, The Illegal Eagles make a welcome return to Malvern Theatres with a brand new production, promising more of their trademark musical prowess, absolute attention to detail and incredible showmanship.
This critically acclaimed show includes the very best from the Eagles’ catalogue of classics including Hotel California, Desperado, Take It Easy, New Kid In Town, Life In The Fast Lane and many more…

Guided Tour of Madresfield Court
2025-06-05 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-05 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-06-05 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-06-05 14:30 - 16:00, 2025-06-06 10:30 - 12:00, 2025-06-06 11:30 - 13:00, 2025-06-06 13:30 - 15:00, 2025-06-06 14:30 - 16:00 and 1 more date | Madresfield Court, Madresfield, Malvern, Worcs, WR13 5AJ
Madresfield Court, situated within the Madresfield Estate at the foot of the Malvern Hills, is a moated stately home that has been in the Lygon family for over 900 years and is currently home to its 29th generation.
The house played a significant part in nurturing the Arts and Crafts movement and contains a fine collection of paintings, furniture and ceramics. It also has a rich history, with both Edward Elgar and Evelyn Waugh being frequent visitors.
The house and beautiful grounds are open to welcome visitors at various times throughout the year. Access to the house and gardens is by guided tour only and tickets must be pre-booked online.
The Madresfield Estate also hosts several popular events throughout the year within the grounds of the Court.
2025 season details
The 2025 tour season at Madresfield Court runs from the end of April until the end of June.
Tours generally run on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays (with some exceptions).
On most days of operation, four tours (one at 10.30am, 11.30am, 1.30pm and 2.30pm) will run, with each tour taking a maximum of fifteen people aged 16 and over. Sadly, the tours are not suitable for babies or children under 16 and are subject to accessibility restrictions.
Tickets are £17 per person and all visitors will have the chance to enjoy the gardens either before or after the house tour.
New for 2025, refreshments can now be enjoyed in the newly refurbished Play Room.
For full details, including booking terms and conditions, to check that a tour is running on your chosen date and to book your place, visit the Madresfield Court website.
Photo supplied by Madresfield Court.

Malvern Hills Literary Loop: Tolkien, Lewis, Darwin & Dickens
2025-06-05 13:00 - 16:00, 2025-06-07 10:30 - 13:30, 2025-06-07 14:30 - 17:30, 2025-06-08 10:30 - 13:30, 2025-06-08 14:30 - 17:30
Legendary fantasy authors JRR Tolkien and CS Lewis were frequent visitors to the Malvern Hills around the middle of the 20th century and the distinctive landscape may have inspired features of Middle Earth and Narnia, like the Giant’s Cave from the Hobbit and the Victorian gas lamps from The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe.
A century earlier, authors Charles Darwin and Charles Dickens visited Malvern for the Water Cure and most of the treatment centres and guest houses still remain.
The Malvern Hills Literary Loop starts at the Mr. Tumnus bench in Priory Park and heads up past Knotsford House where Dickens stayed to Lewis’s former school Cherbourg House before pausing at the Lewis Memorial in Rosebank Gardens and following the gas lamps up to St. Ann’s Well cafe.
After admiring the views around North Hill, the trail descends to Alexandra Rd where Lewis’s close friend & biographer George Sayers lived, opposite the former home of composer Edward Elgar.
The loop then heads up past Montreal House where Darwin stayed during his daughter’s treatment and past Lewis & Tolkien’s favourite pub The Unicorn Inn before passing the Hobbit door and down to Malvern Priory to find Anne Darwin’s grave and potentially the original Narnian gas lamp.
Dates and booking
The walks are available on many dates, often with the option of two start times on the same day. For more information, including prices, availability and to book. visit the Malvern Hills Literary Loop: Tolkien, Lewis, Darwin & Dickens page on Airbnb.

Messy Vintage Service: 'Summertime Praise'
2025-06-05 14:00 - 16:00 | Holy Trinity Church, North Malvern Road, Malvern, WR14 4LR
Join us for a fun and informal service celebrating summertime, which is specially designed for older people.
The afternoon will include hymns, readings and Messy Vintage, followed by refreshments.
Everyone is welcome! People living with dementia or special needs and their carers are especially welcome.
Parking is available directly outside the church door.

Jukebox Idols
2025-06-06 19:30 - 22:00 | Malvern Theatres, WR14 3HB
Star of the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, Nadiya Bychkova, and the platinum-selling vocal harmony group The Overtones have announced they will star together in a brand new show for 2025 called Jukebox Idols.
From the producers who brought you the West End smash hit Rip It Up ’60s, Jukebox Idols will feature non-stop hits from the jukebox idols of the past and present, brought to life with show-stopping dance routines.
Nadiya and The Overtones will be joined by a stellar supporting cast of dancers as they swing, bop, jive and rock ‘n’ roll their way through a kaleidoscopic array of pop music’s greatest hits, including classic songs from the likes of Nat King Cole, Elvis Presley, The Beatles, The Beach Boys, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, The Bee Gees, The Backstreet Boys, Take That and Bruno Mars, as well as many others.

Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
2025-06-06 19:30 - 22:00 | Malvern Theatres, WR14 3HB
Jools Holland & his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra return to Malvern for a show featuring Gilson Lavis with special guest star Chris Difford and guest vocalists Ruby Turner, Louise Marshall and Sumudu Jayatilaka.
As the UK’s most popular pianist and bandleader, Jools Holland OBE has performed and recorded with some of the most illustrious musicians and songwriters in the world, including Eric Clapton, the late George Harrison and Luther Vandross, Sting, BB King and Paul Weller.
Jools is respected not only as a performer, but also an authority on all types of music.
The 20-piece Rhythm & Blues Orchestra features, at its centre, former Squeeze drummer Gilson Lavis, who has been drumming with Jools Holland for over 25 years, since their Squeeze days, with special guest Chris Difford and guest vocalists Ruby Turner, Louise Marshall and Sumudu Jayatilaka.
As ever, Jools continues to dazzle, involve and impress audiences with his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra and their exuberant live performances.
The show lasts for 2 hours 45 minutes, including an interval.

Priory Tower Tours
2025-06-07 11:00 - 16:00 | Great Malvern Priory, WR14 2AY
On selected dates throughout the year, it’s possible to visit to the ringing chamber and top of the Priory tower (weather permitting) on the hour, every hour, from 11am to 3pm. This is your chance to see how the bells are rung (as well as to try them yourself) and get the best view of Great Malvern.
Cost: £5 for adults / £2.50 for 8 – 16s (sorry, not suitable for children under 8)
Dates in 2025
Saturday 7 June
Saturday 5 July
Saturday 2 August (as part of Priory Super Saturday)
Saturday 6 September
Saturday 4 October (as part of Priory Super Saturday)
Saturday 1 November (as part of Priory Super Saturday)
Saturday 22 November (as part of Priory Christmas Super Saturday)

Elgar International Festival of Brass – Septura
2025-06-07 19:00 - 21:00 | Malvern Theatres, WR14 3HB
Septura was conceived out of a passion for the awe-inspiring sound of brass instruments. The brass septet is uniquely vibrant and versatile, and aims to harness its intense emotional power to produce transformative musical experiences for listeners.
In short, the group has a simple message: music sounds better on brass.
To fulfil its mission the septet has brought together the very best brass players in the UK – holding principal positions in the Royal Philharmonic, London Symphony, BBC Symphony and Philharmonia orchestras – and with their unparalleled skill and virtuosity has forged a chamber group described as “dazzlingly polished” in BBC Music Magazine. They are now firmly established amongst the best in the world.

Matt Woosey Band - Cancelled
2025-06-07 20:00 - 22:00 | Malvern Cube, WR14 2YF
This event has been cancelled. Please contact Malvern Cube with any enquiries.
Matt Woosey has made a career of defying expectations. His albums break down the restrictions of genre. His live performances span from eyeball-to-eyeball solo sets in fans’ living rooms to thundering full-band explosions that shake the most prestigious music venues around Europe. He’s an artist who slips the creative handcuffs of the industry, a trailblazer with no reverse gear, a guitar visionary whose palette bleeds into folk, rock, ambient and more, having been first introduced to the world of music by the blues.

Elgar International Festival of Brass
2025-06-08 12:00 - 17:30 | Malvern Theatres, WR14 3HB
The Elgar International Festival of Brass has rapidly established itself as one of the leading brass music festivals. Whether you are a connoisseur of brass music, an occasional listener, or new to the medium, the festival will have something for everyone. On Sunday 8 June 2025, there are three concerts to savour:

The Cory Band (from South Wales) at 12pm
The Black Dyke Band (from Yorkshire) at 2.30pm
The Foden’s Band (from Sandbach) at 4.30pm

One ticket covers admission to all three concerts.

Martin Simpson
2025-06-08 19:00 - 20:30 | Malvern Cube, WR14 2YF
The remarkable intimate solo performances Martin gives go from strength to strength – every gig is a masterclass. He travels the length and breadth of the UK and beyond, giving rapt audiences passion, sorrow, love, beauty, tragedy and majesty through his playing.
“What’s it like being the best guitar player in the world…?” Martin’s modesty and grace prevented him from answering this BBC Radio 4 interviewer’s question recently, but the facts speak for themselves.
Nearly 50 years after he recorded his first album, Golden Vanity, in 1976, Martin is known as a guitarist of formidable talent. Equally at home playing English traditional folk, American folk and blues and his own compositions, he is consistently named as one of the very finest fingerstyle guitar players in the world.

Waytes and Measures - Free Lunchtime Concert
2025-06-10 13:00 - 14:00 | Great Malvern Priory, WR14 2AY
Waytes and Measures is a four-piece group based in Gloucestershire who entertain with medieval and early Tudor song and lively dance music. They frequently wear period costume to perform, adding to the authenticity of the experience. The versatile musicians play and talk about a variety of period instruments including shawms, portative organ, medieval fiddle, recorders, gittern and percussion. They have released 3 CDs of their music, which are available from their website.
Free entry with retiring collection.
