For those of you following the Abingdon Passion Play 2024, there is an opportunity to hear some of the music for the play. On 21st April, at 5.30 pm, the Choir of St. Helen’s will perform “Music and Readings for Easter”, followed by the Abingdon Passion Play Singers, directed by Sally Mears.

At the Abingdon Library authors event in April, Peter Tickler will be talking about his new crime novel: The Tickler’s Jam Murders.  Peter previously talked about his next project, combining a murder story with his own family history. This is the finished product!

2024, is the 80th anniversary of the Friends of Abingdon saving the Abbey Buildings  in 1944 and founding the trust that owns, maintains and cares for them on behalf of the community. The Beer Festival is one way to raise money to improve the Abbey Buildings.

At Mostly Books there are two more events in April:

Thursday 25th April: Georgina Moore in conversation with Becky Hunter

Georgina Moore’s novel, “The Garnett Girls” is out in paperback. The novel is about the Garnett sisters, Rachel, Imogen and Sasha, and the impact of their parents’ passionate but doomed love affair on their lives. Each sister is struggling with their own challenges, but their mother’s silence about the past is preventing them from finding happiness.

Saturday 27th April: The Gruffalo’s 25th Birthday Party!
SOLD OUT.

The Abingdon Horticultural Society spring show will be open to the public from 2-4pm at the NorthCourt Centre, with prizegiving and raffle at 4pm.

On Saturday 20 April at 5pm, Harmony InSpires ladies a capella choir will be returning to St Michael’s Church with ‘Harmony in Springtime’, a concert of 4-part harmony in a wide variety of styles from musicals, pop classics and ballads. There will be a guest appearance from Caritas Children’s Choir, a charitable venture of the Wantage and Grove Christian Aid Group.

In their 80th year, The Abingdon Drama Club’s production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead runs from April 17th to 20th at the Unicorn Theatre in Abingdon. This is a backstage view of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, following the perspective of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters who find themselves increasingly confused by the events unfolding around them.

Only one day remaining (matinee and evening) for 9 To 5, the current production of the Abingdon Operatic Society.

The sun was out today for The Easter Eggstravaganza, a free fun day held on Abingdon Market Place.  There were Easter crafts, as well as local food stalls, live music,

and performances by local dancers.

The Easter egg hunt trail was a free activity that took place around the town centre. The trail was also an egg-cellent egg-scuse to crack out some egg puns. Competitors had to write down the colours of the twelve eggs and the puns

and return to the BH&O stall in the Market Place to claim a chocolate egg prize.

Mothering Sunday is a day that used to be more about religion. People would visit the church where they were baptised. Now it’s more about celebrating mums in general. At Trinity Church today, the junior church helped make and give out flowers to the women in the congregation, and to men to take home to wives or mothers.

They had extra flowers to share with people who can’t come to church.