Bexhill's Big Summer Sounds 2026
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra spends a week in residence at Bexhill's seafront De La Warr Pavilion, from outdoor ABBA and disco nights to Tchaikovsky in the auditorium.
- When
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- Where
De La Warr Pavilion, Marina, Bexhill-on-Sea TN40 1DP
- Info
Visit the De La Warr Pavilion website for tickets and the full programme
For one week each summer the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra decamps to the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill's Grade I-listed Modernist landmark on the seafront. The 2026 residency opens with Symphonic Groove on 27 June — soul and disco played full-orchestra under the open sky — and closes on 4 July with ABBAphonic and Mega Music Saturday, a free all-day celebration. In between, the orchestra plays Tchaikovsky, Sibelius and Dvořák in the Pavilion's auditorium on 2 July.
The outdoor concerts are picnic affairs — the Pavilion sells picnic boxes for the lawn — while the auditorium evening is a dressier classical programme, with tickets from £22.50. Rye is thirty-five minutes along the coast, close enough to make the concert the centrepiece of a night away.
Stay at The River Haven
The De La Warr Pavilion is a thirty-five-minute drive from The River Haven Hotel along the coast road, so an evening concert ends with a quiet riverside room in Rye rather than a long journey home. Book the night of the performance and take breakfast on the Rother the next morning.
