What's on in Macclesfield this weekend?
By The Editor
13th Dec 2023 | Local News
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Each midweek, we preview the best events coming for the forthcoming weekend.
And this weekend is going to be a huge one for Yuletide fun, and seeing Macclesfield shine.
Here is a longlist of things to do in Macclesfield this weekend
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Now, let us preview the best Macclesfield events going on this weekend.
Treacle Market
Of course, where better to start than Macclesfield's best-known event?
It is the last Treacle Market of the year, a week earlier than usual to make sure you can squeeze some Christmas shopping in.
Slightly rearranged to accommodate Macclesfield's ginormous Christmas Tree, the Treacle Market will have festive shopping, eating, drinking, singing, dancing and more! 10am -
Free parking across town and disabled parking available. Dogs welcome. Over 150+ stalls and entertainment plus our fantastic high street, bars, museums and more events across town especially on a Treacle Sunday.
The market are also encouraging attendees to give back to good causes this Christmas.
Sunday, 10am - 3.30pm.
Palestine Vigil
A free vigil on Market Place will take place on Saturday morning, in support of the Palestinian people.
Attendees wishing to show solidarity are invited to wear the colours of the Palestinian flag.
10am to 11:30am, outside Macclesfield Town Hall.
More info HERE.
The Silk Museum Festive Fun
Get crafty on Old Park Lane, with these two Christmas events.
The Silk Museum will be hosting a Victorian Christmas in their Victorian building! There will be dressing up, storytelling, games and crafts. You can make your own Christmas Cracker!
A fun after school activity for all the family. 4+.
More info HERE and tickets HERE.
The following day, on Treacle Sunday, there is another separate ticketed event.
Local artist Hannah Wooll will teach you how to make vintage, folk art inspired, Christmas Decorations.
You will be using metal sheets and enamel paints. During the workshop you will have time to make 2 decorations, in your own design, to take away with you.
This workshop is suitable for people ages 16 and over Due to the nature of the materials used care is required as there may be sharp edges to the metal.
1:30-4pm. More info and tickets HERE.
Live Classical
The Northern Chamber Orchestra on Roe Street will present a classical concert with Christmas themes.
Vivaldi's Gloria, his most significant sacred work, is matched only by The Four Seasons in its popularity. Whilst the opening words derive from the Latin Mass, they might be thought to bear a Christmas message: 'Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to men of goodwill'. The NCO is joined by the Kantos Chamber Choir, which records regularly for BBC Radio and performs with orchestras such as the BBC Philharmonic and the RLPO.
Two orchestral works and two pieces for choir alone precede the Gloria. Corelli's Christmas Concerto is one of the most famous of Christmas Concerti Grossi, whilst Vivaldi's Concerto for Two Trumpets, played here by the NCO's own principals, Tracey Redfern and Peter Mainwaring, sparkles with joyous fanfares. These concertos are interspersed with two contemporary choral masterpieces, Morten Lauridsen's deeply moving O Magnum Mysterium (1994), based on a Gregorian chant for Christmas, and Dobrinka Tabakova's Alma Redemptoris Mater (2014).
Kantos is conducted by Ellie Slorach. Based in Manchester, she makes her debut this season with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Orchestra of Opera North and Manchester Camerata. The orchestral pieces are directed from the violin by Ian Watson, who has acted as guest principal with many of the UK's leading orchestras, including the Royal Philharmonic, the BBC Philharmonic, the RLPO and the London Mozart Players.
Tickets HERE.
A Different Kind of Festive Concert
Macclesfield Singers & Symphony Orchestra present a concert of Christmas music conducted by Mark McCombs and Anthony Houghton.
St. Michael's Church, this Saturday.
The programme features Leroy Anderson – Christmas Festival, Tchaikovsky – A Christmas Season Suite from the Seasons, Connor – Christmas Revisited and a selection of carols including carols for audience.
Tickets are £15 or free for under 18s and are available from Macclesfield Visitor Information Centre on Market Place - as well as online at kems.yapsody.com.
Pub Event
The Turners of 1 Inversely Road will have an evening of performance.
DJ Swindells will be hosting a karaoke night at the community pub, which is ran by a committee.
Saturday 16th December from 20:30. Just turn up.
Nativity
If you don't fancy the hustle and bustle of the town centre on Sunday, or aren't getting to the Treacle Market until the afternoon, why not start the day with a Great British festive tradition?
On the December 17 at 10.30am, a nativity event will take place. Kids welcome to come dressed up in seasonal attire.
Refreshments cakes and warm drinks with a donation towards the church funds of Bosley St Mary's. There will be a live band and choir with a joyful banter by the vicar John Harries the children becoming a tabard as they bring up to the manger; with a real baby, the items for the model nativity, and the congregation sing the relevant song.
Leek Road, Bosley. More info HERE.
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