It’s time to celebrate festival season in Bath, beginning with the city’s biggest FREE party! Join a musical tour centred on our iconic flagship venues - Parade Gardens, Bath Abbey, The Guildhall and Komedia - with 39 pubs, bars and restaurants, churches, museums and galleries hosting live music of every kind to make you smile, dance and dream. Plan your evening around your favourite artists, venues and musical genres with our new Party in the City app. If you’re not partied out by 10pm when things start to wind down, check the app for details of ticketed events to take you on into the small hours. Brochure design & cover art: Lauren Millington Design | lauren-millington.design
We’re partying-on into Saturday, showcasing over 700 singers in 15 choral groups in this FREE community event. Come and hear our choirs lift the roof singing pop, rock, classical, folk, opera and gospel music. Join in with specially arranged sing-alongs. Compered by Jon Monie.
THE NATURAL THEATRE COMPANY Saturday 17 May | 3–10pm | Green Park Station | Free
6–8pm | City Centre | Free
The world famous Natural Theatre Company will be out and about on the streets for Party In The City. Who knows what characters Bath’s best loved theatre company will bring this year? Take a selfie with them and enjoy some light-hearted banter!
FRIDAY AFFAIR 10pm–4am Labyrinth | £6.50+
Friday night is the new Saturday! Enjoy your night out with the group and then have a chilled Saturday... or go out again!
FAME: OFFICIAL AFTERPARTY 11pm–3am Komedia | £7
Join us on Friday 16 May as Party in the City brings the Official Afterparty to FAME!
PARADE GARDENS
6–6:30pm
BEN HUTCHESON
Acoustic/pop
Ben is the new generation of fresh English singer/songwriters, bridging the storytelling gap between the likes of Luke Combs, Ed Sheeran and Morgan Wallen.
6:50–7:20pm
THREE’S A CROWD
A blues/rock band that leans towards the more funky and melodic aspects of those genres. Inspired by Steely Dan, Pink Floyd, Kaleo and Cream, but with an original musical flair of their own.
SOBER SUNDAYS
Flooding their flat with the sound of King Krule, Mac Miller and Hard Life, the band invites you to listen to frontman Finn Hustler depict scenes of the night before, and the morning after.
7:40–8:10pm 8:30–9pm 9:20–10pm
SOUL’D OUT THE ARKANSAW JUKEBOX COLLECTIVE
Lively party band, two amazing vocalists, three part awesome brass section, nimble fingered keyboardist, an unstoppable rhythm section and one uncontrollable drummer.
They are covers Jim, but not as we know them! Sex Pistols on a banjo? Radiohead as a waltz? A Bluegrass Stormzy?! Has the world gone mad? It’s just the legendary Arkansaw Jukebox Collective playing covers just like God intended - bluegrass style!
BATH ABBEY
VOICES FOR LIFE MASSED CHILDREN’S CHOIR
Join 150 local primary school children for a performance of a lifetime as they celebrate their uniqueness and première SONG FOR HOPE by Jools Scott and Sue Curtis, featuring Bath choir Horizons. Be inspired by the power of music!
8:20–8:50pm 7:15–8pm
HARMONY RISING
Harmony Rising is Bath Phil’s inclusive co-creative choir for 11-14 year olds that celebrates youth voice and enables participants to co-create, rehearse and perform their own songs. The choir brings together over 120 young people from every secondary / senior school in Bath, developing their confidence through the joy of creative music-making and performance.
HORIZONS
Horizons - Choir of Bath - singing a mix of classical and contemporary music from across the centuries. Amongst the selection of pieces the choir will be singing a wonderful song called ‘Sunflower’ for choir accompanied by solo cello composed by Jacob Narverund, and also ‘The Long Day Closes’ by A. Sullivan. The choir is an non auditioned choir that meet on Monday evenings in Bath.
6–6:45pm 9:10–9:40pm
THE GREAT DAY CHOIR
The Great Day Choir is a daytime pop choir for women who enjoy singing together, led by MD Beth Morgan. They aim to leave you feeling great through the power of uplifting songs and warm community.
Sheffield rock band Reverend and the Makers headline an evening big on energy and entertainment in Komedia with support from The Ramona Flowers and Alex Lipinski & The Crown Electric. This is a paid event, raising funds for Party in the City.
HELP US KEEP THE PARTY FREE
Bath Festivals is a charity supporting education and enjoyment of the arts for all.
Each year we organise Party in the City, the Bath Literature Festival, the Bath Music Festival and the Bath Children’s Literature Festival. We also put on events, throughout the year and collaborate with other festivals and cultural organisations who share our aims. We receive no public funding and we need to supplement our ticket sales income through grants, sponsorships and donations.
As a free-to-attend event Party in the City particularly needs your support! Look for our volunteers with buckets and card machines at the Abbey, the Guildhall and in Parade Gardens - or you can give online at bathfestivals.org.uk/support
Please help by donating what you can!
Bath Festivals Registered Charity 801617
GET THE PARTY IN THE CITY APP
Our new Party in the City app lists all of our 2025 performances and allows you to plan your evening’s entertainment on Friday, Saturday and Bank Holiday Monday 26download it now with the QR code!
HAVE YOUR SAY!
You can vote for your favourite act at Party in the City via the app and tell us what you think by completing our audience survey - you could win a meal out for two.
Party in the City will be back in 2026 - save the date, Friday 15 May. If you’re an artist or a venue and you’d like to host or perform next year, applications open in November - in the meantime sign up for our newsletters and follow us online @bathpartyinthecity.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT
Bob Tyrrell
Thanks to all of our Party in the City Ambassadors and all of our volunteers. We couldn’t manage without you!
