Hexham's May schedule is packed with the final five days of our annual book festival and the new Northumberland Jazz Festival bookending the month.
Come and explore this lovely town!
Wed 1st 6.15pm The Painter's Daughters - Emily Howes Hexham Book Festival £8
Wed 1st 6.45pm Carmen - Royal Opera Forum Cinema £17.50/conc
Wed 1st 7.45pm Hachette Proof Party Hexham Book Festival £17 inc three books
Thurs 2nd 6.15pm The Coming Storm - Liam Fox Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Thurs 2nd 7.30pm The Motive and The Clue - NT Live Forum Cinema £17.50/conc
Thurs 2nd 8pm Four Shots In The Night - Henry Hemming Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Fri 3rd 6.15pm Time After Time: Repeat Offenders - Chris Atkins Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Sat 4th 11am Johnson at No 10 - Raymond Newell Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Sat 4th 12.45pm Error Of Judgment - Chris Mullin Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Sat 4th 2pm Sound Healing and Meditation for Beltane The Sound Lodge £30
Sat 4th 2pm How To Raise A Viking - Helen Russell Hexham Book Festival £10.50/£8.50
Sat 4th 2.30pm Stuffed (British food history) - Pen Vogler Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Sat 4th 3.30pm The Orwell Tour - Oliver Lewis Hexham Book Festival £10.50/£8.50
Sat 4th 4.15pm Our Accidental Universe - Prof Chris Lintott Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Sat 4th 5pm The Wheel Is Spinning But The Hamster Is Dead Hexham Book Festival £10.50/£8.50
Sat 4th 6pm Uncivilised: Ten Lies That Made The West - Subhadra Das Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Sat 4th 6.30pm Poyums - Len Pennie Hexham Book Festival £10.50/£8.50
Sat 4th 7.30pm Hector Gannet plus Johny Brown (BOHJ) The Vault £15
Sat 4th 7.45pm Death On The Thames - Alan Johnson Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Sun 5th 11am Gauguin & Polynesia - Nicholas Thomas Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Sun 5th 12.30pm Among The Trolls - Marianna Spring Hexham Book Festival £10.50/£8.50
Sun 5th 12.45pm Sex, Spies and Scandal - Alex Grant Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Sun 5th 2pm The Song Of The Whole Wide World - Tamarin Norwood Hexham Book Festival £10.50/£8.50
Sun 5th 2.30pm In Search Of Berlin - John Kampfner Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Sun 5th 4.15pm Imtiaz Barker and Bloodaxe Books Hexham Book Festival £11/£9
Sun 5th 7pm Macbeth - NT Live Forum Cinema £17.50/conc
Wed 8th 8pm An Audience with Lord Ian Botham Queen's Hall Theatre From £30
Fri 10th 7.30pm Russell Kane: Hyperactive Queen's Hall Theatre £29
Fri 10th 7.30pm Cows Lying Down The Vault £10
Sat 11th 9am-1.30pm Hexham Farmers' Market Market Place and Abbey Flags FREE
Sat 11th 9am-2pm Hexham Indoor Vintage, Flea & Antique Fair Hexham Mart £5/£3
Sat 11th 10am-3pm Monthly Indoor Market Hexham Abbey FREE
Sat 11th 7.30pm Dvorak's Stabat Mater - Hexham Orpheus Choir Hexham Abbey £18/£12.50
Sat 11th 7.30pm Hue and Cry Queen's Hall Theatre £25
Sun 12th 10am-3pm Hexham Record Fair - Century Decayed Wentworth Leisure £2
Tues 14th 7.15pm Help I Sexted My Boss Forum Cinema £17.50/conc
Tues 14th 7.30pm The Sixteen - Choral Pilgrimage 2024 Hexham Abbey £30-£10
Thurs 16th 7.30pm The Dad's Army Radio Show Queen's Hall Theatre £21
Fri 17th 7.30pm Mugenkyo Taiko Drummers Queen's Hall Theatre £27/£22
Sat 18th 7.30pm The Sounds of Music - Hexham Male Voice Choir West End Methodist Church £12
Sun 19th 7pm The Four Seasons and the Lark Ascending Hexham Abbey £12.50
Wed 22nd 7.15pm The Winter's Tale - Royal Ballet Forum Cinema £17.50/conc
Fri 24th 6.30pm Krokodile Klub Queen's Hall Studio £5/carers free
Sat 25th 9am-1.30pm Hexham Farmers' Market Market Place FREE
Sat 25th 6.30pm Jazz Festival - Paul Edis Trio Queen's Hall Theatre £25
Sun 26th 12pm Jazz Festival Bandstand Session FREE
Sun 26th 3pm Jazz Festival - Bryony Jarman-Pinto Hexham Library £12
Sun 26th 6pm Jazz Festival - Clark Tracey Quintet Queen's Hall Theatre £18
Wed 29th 1.30-3.30pm Bee Day - Hexham Town Council Hexham Cemetery FREE
Thurs 30th 7.20pm ROH: Message In A Bottle Forum Cinema £17.50/conc
