After missing out on this venue due to heavy snow in 2010 the Band was once again starting Christmas in Christchurch Priory with a programme that started with the traditional carol Gaudete and ended with Eric Ball's classic The Kingdom Triumphant.

The Priory Church was well filled and, as always, the music of Christmas seems particularly suited to the accoustic - none more so than Morten Lauridsen's O Magnum Mysterium. The audience (and the Band) left at the end knowing that the Christmas season had arrived once more.