Winter Wassail is a midwinter feast of song, music and poetry to celebrate the arrival of the new year.

The Gabrieli Consort & Players plays a choral programme of seasonal pieces for all the family, inspired by words from Shakespeare, Hardy and Chaucer. Evoking medieval, Elizabethan and Victorian eras, the evening is presented by Peter Hamilton Dyer.

Winter Wassail is staged in two half-hour acts, with audiences encouraged to partake in mulled wine and hot food to keep warm in the interval.