York Minster’s popular Christmas Carol Concerts return offering the perfect start to the festive season.

The Choir of York Minster, one of the UK’s leading cathedral choirs, will perform traditional and much-loved Christmas music, with seasonal readings from special guest Sue Devaney and the chance for the audience to join in with carols.

The concerts take place in the beautiful setting of York Minster’s awe-inspiring Nave and include music by the Yorkshire Volunteer Band. Both concerts will start at 7pm, and will take place on Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 December.

Booking

Tickets priced between £15 – £40 are available via our Box Office or by calling our Bookings Team on 01904 557200. Children over the age of two need their own seat.

Reserved, Central Nave tickets can be booked HERE. Unreserved, Nave Side Aisles tickets can be booked HERE.

Doors will open at 6pm.

Sue Devaney

TV favourite Sue Devaney is best known for playing the role of Debbie Webster in Coronation Street, a role she created in 1984 and reprised in 2020.

Other television credits includes: Years and Years, River City, Great Night Out, Emmerdale, Lapland, Shameless, Dinnerladies, Casualty, Doctors, Being April, The Mystery of Men, Common as Muck, Jonny Briggs, Mrs Bradley’s Mysteries, When We are Married, The Real Eddy English, The Royal, Heartbeat, Strictly Confidential, The Bill, Mrs Worthington’s Daughter, The Index Has Gone Fishing.

Theatre includes: Calendar Girls The Musical (UK tour) The Two Noble Kinsmen (Shakespeare’s Globe), The Kitchen Sink (Oldham Coliseum Theatre); A Christmas Carol (Octagon Theatre Bolton); When We are Married (Northern Broadsides); Our Gracie (Oldham Coliseum Theatre and New Vic Theatre Stoke); Mamma Mia (International Tour); Housewife 49 (The Old Laundry Theatre Windermere); Fetish Knights (Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays); Dinnerladies (UK number one tour); The Pretender Agenda (The New Players London); Haunted (The Arts Theatre London); Sleeping Beauty, Wake Up Little Suzie and Good Golly Miss Molly (The Coliseum Theatre Oldham) The Land of The Living (The Royal Court Theatre London); The Doctor of Honour (Cheek By Jowl tour); Wind in the Willows (National Theatre); Loves Labours Lost (The Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester); When We Are Married (The Whitehall Theatre London); Stepping Out, Postcards from Rome (West Yorkshire Playhouse Leeds); It’s a Madhouse, Me Mam Sez (Nottingham Playhouse); Breezeblock Park (Theatre Royal Windsor); Peter Pan (Lyceum Theatre Crewe); Girls Behind (UK number one tour).

Sue has done many radio plays and voice-overs including channel 5’s hilarious Hot Tub Britain. She is a comedy writer/performer and always belts out a tune or two when it’s asked of her!

Since Sue’s last appearance at York Minster she has got married, performed her one woman show called “Didn’t You Used to be somebody.” about addiction, obsession and hope at Home Theatre in Manchester, and she is still loving playing Debbie Webster in Coronation Street. She is thrilled to be asked to do a reading at York Minster. York means a lot to her. It’s where her husbands from!