Next Sunday Service: Team Pilgrimage Communion / 9:00 31st May
ECHOES OF ETERNITY | STROUD SACRED MUSIC FESTIVAL 2026
Imagine a multi-genre, multi-cultural, multi-artform performance shape-shifting into spiritual awakening, and you begin to glimpse the main event of the Stroud Sacred Music Festival 2026.
Locally-based, transnational artists bring music, singing and spoken word from J.S. Bach to Arvo Pärt, T.S. Eliot, entwined with Georgian and Moroccan sources.
Let them draw you into the eye of the storm of life, to sheer silence - a silence which is itself alive with
Echoes of Eternity: the still point of the turning world.
There, where the dance is.
Coming up:
Angels in the Valleys – Parish Pilgrimage, Community Evensong and Reception
Join us for a day of walking, worship, fellowship, and prayer as we journey together across the churches of the Stroud Team Ministry.
Christopher Boodle presents: Organ Bonanza
With music by J.S.Bach, Handel, Herbert Howells and Christopher Boodle.
Sailing Ships of Sound: An Orchestral Premiere by Crimea Butler-Downton
Dive into a musical voyage with Crimea Butler-Downton’s epic orchestral premiere, Sailing Ships of Sound!
Echoes of Eternity | STILL ART by CLAY SINCLAIR
We are delighted to host a selection of paintings by Clay Sinclair for the duration of the Stroud Sacred Music Festival 2026 | Echoes of Eternity.
Echoes of Eternity | SACRED BASS | JOICEY DJ Collective
Joicey DJ Collective girls bring the deep, meditative pulses of Roots Reggae and Dub, before shifting gears into the high-energy, uplifting rhythms of Jungle and Drum n Bass.
Echoes of Eternity | CHANT SPACE | Universal Kirtan Special
Uplifting shared singing and conscious music featuring Indian kirtan woven through with multifaith chant and song.
Echoes of Eternity MAINSTAGE | The Still Point of the Turning World.
Imagine a multi-genre, multi-cultural, multi-artform performance shape-shifting into spiritual awakening…
Echoes of Eternity | JOYFUL NOISE | Pearl Legay-Clarke and Tara Mexis
Joyful Noise is a playful, inclusive singing workshop. Through simple, uplifting songs taught by ear, they create a space full of connection, creativity and fun.
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