Tickets
Booking ahead
The new season’s brochure is mailed first to our Members and Patrons, who enjoy at least two weeks’ priority, but for postal bookings only. The brochure then goes to the rest of our mailing list, in time for general booking to open (for a further two weeks, only postal bookings are accepted; after that, bookings may also be made by telephone). For 2010, priority booking opened on Tuesday 16 March; general booking on Tuesday 6 April.
You can pay by credit or debit card, also by cheque at present (provided there is time for your cheque to reach the Box Office before the concert). However, please use a debit card if you can, as it costs us less than a credit card and is quicker and easier for us than your paying by cheque.
Cheques should be made payable to Blyth Valley Chamber Music (not Concerts at Cratfield).
If you telephone the Box Office (01728-453193), please do so between 10am and 6pm, and not on weekends or public holidays: this maximises the chance Tom will take your call in person and deal with your enquiry straight away.
Ticket availability
For up-to-date information on availability, go to the concert pages on this website; you’ll find a link to the page for the individual concert/s you are interested in. As most of the tickets for the whole season are sold during the first month in which they are on sale, please check ticket availability for the concert/s you are hoping to attend before you contact the Box Office.
Prices and location
Ticket prices are unchanged for 2010: £12.50 (nave), £9 (side aisles, chancel and altar) and £7 (all others). All £12.50 and £9 tickets give a reserved seat or place; but the rear nave £7 seats are unnumbered (the church normally opens for concertgoers by 2.15pm). There is a discount if you buy a ticket for all concerts in the season.
Click here for a plan of the church in PDF format, showing where the different blocks of seats are for our concerts and their ticket prices; the file will either open as a new on-screen page or be downloaded to your computer, depending on your own browser settings or preferences.
The church is small enough (its maximum capacity is only 230 concertgoers) that the acoustic is good wherever you sit, but a row of stone pillars between the central nave and each side aisle limits the view from some side and rear seats. Most of the central nave and side aisle seats are in wooden pews; most of the chancel and rear nave seats are individual chairs (new since 2009).
Spare tickets?
If you have any tickets for a Cratfield concert which you cannot use, please phone the Box Office on 01728-453193 and let Tom know as soon as you can; as long as we know by the day before a concert, we may be able to offer yours to someone else. [Tickets are not normally otherwise returnable or refundable.]
Lost tickets?
If you know you had tickets for a concert but can no longer find them, please phone the Box Office on 01728-453193 and let Tom know; he will normally be able to have duplicates waiting for you at the church.
On a concert day
By 9.30am on the morning of a concert, the page for that concert on this website will have been updated to reflect the latest position on ticket availability. Or call the Box Office phone number any time after 9.30am: you’ll hear a recorded message summarising the same ticket information.
Tom won’t respond to phone calls on a concert day; but from 2.15pm onwards, you can buy any unsold or returned tickets from him at the church, paying in cash or by cheque (no card sales).
If you don’t yet have a ticket, please arrive at the church by 2.45pm. The Box Office table is just inside the church on the left.