Press release

March 2026

From playful family trails and creative crafts to fascinating talks, guided tours and lives music, there is plenty to enjoy at Handel Hendrix House throughout the Easter Break (Wednesday, April 1 to Sunday, April 12, 2026) including the Easter weekend of Friday, April 3 to Sunday, April 5 (the house will be closed on Bank Holiday Monday). Handel Hendrix House - the Mayfair museum once home to composer G.F. Handel and rock legend Jimi Hendrix at 25 Brook Street. Entry to the events is included in the admission price.

The trail and craft activities are designed for children and creative grown-ups alike. Follow clues through the historic rooms as visitors explore together, spotting hidden surprises along the way. They can get hands-on with fun craft activities, including making a musical egg shaker to decorate and take home!

EVENTS IN APRIL

The exhibition, Handel through Mozart’s eyes will run until Sunday, September 13, 2026

Saturday 4th April

Guitar Saturday

12-1pm – Talk ‘The Sound of the Riff!”

1-3pm – Brook street Jam in our Studio - Bring your guitar and help us fill Brook Street with music

£20 including general admission https://handelhendrix.org/even...

Sunday 5th April 

Volunteer tour

1-2pm

Join the volunteer guides for a friendly and insightful tour of the house.

Available on a first-come, first served basis, maximum of 10 people per tour.

Saturday & Sunday, 11th & 12th April

Baroque & Roll Weekends – Live Music

Twice a month and included in general price

1-3pm – Baroque

2-4pm – Roll

Enjoy live music in both the Handel and Hendrix spaces on the same day. Hear baroque music performed on historic instruments in Handel’s dining room, then step into the 1960s with blues and guitar music in Jimi Hendrix’s bedroom. A unique chance to experience music where it was once written, rehearsed, and played. https://handelhendrix.org/even...

Monday 13th April

Monday matinee with Dylan Donegan

1pm | £15

Dylan will explore the expressive power of the harpsichord through the music of Handel and Scarlatti, two composers famously linked by virtuosity and imagination. The programme weaves Handel’s masterful use of variation with Scarlatti’s lyrical and contrasting sonatas, revealing a rich dialogue between drama, warmth and brilliance. From intimate moments to a glorious concluding Chaconne, this recital showcases the harpsichord at its most inventive and compelling. https://handelhendrix.org/even...

Wednesday 15th April

Jimi Sessions with Connor Selby

6.30pm and 7.30pm | £25

A truly unique live music experience in Hendrix’s flat. The musicians will be playing original music throughout the flat, creating unforgettable moments

Young troubadour Connor Selby, one of the brightest talents on the UK blues scene, signed to Provogue Records in December 2022 and has releases his major label debut, the self-titled Connor Selby to critical acclaim. He has been voted “Young Artist of the Year” at the UK Blues Awards for three consecutive years (2020, 2021, 2022). https://handelhendrix.org/even...

Monday 20th April

Handel’s Salon with Nathaniel Mander

6.30pm | SOLD OUT

Handel Hendrix House showcases the crème de la crème of baroque performers through our ‘Handel’s Salon’ evenings.

Nathaniel will perform an intimate recital of works by Handel himself, complimented this time by music from one of his great admirers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Nathaniel Mander is a British harpsichordist known for his refined interpretations of early music, particularly from the Baroque and Classical periods. https://handelhendrix.org/even...

Saturday & Sunday, 25th & 26th April

Baroque & Roll Weekends – Live Music

Twice a month and included in general price

1-3pm – Baroque

2-4pm – Roll

Enjoy live music in both the Handel and Hendrix spaces on the same day. Hear baroque music performed on historic instruments in Handel’s dining room, then step into the 1960s with blues and guitar music in Jimi Hendrix’s bedroom. A unique chance to experience music where it was once written, rehearsed, and played. https://handelhendrix.org/even...

Plus every Thursday at 2pm – Seasonal talks with Deputy Curator

NOTES TO EDITORS:

The house is open Wednesday – Sunday 10.00 – 17.00 (last entry at 16:00). Tickets are £14.50 for adults, £10.50 for students and free for the under 12s. Tickets can be purchased in advance on the website www.handelhendrix.org but it is possible to buy

a ticket on the day at the museum. Nearest Tube: Bond Street

PRESS INFORMATION

Please contact Rachel Aked

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 07790 732448

The live music at Handel Hendrix House is generously supported by The Thistle Trust, The Garrick Charitable Trust, and Chapman Charitable Trust.

Handel Hendrix House cares for and presents to the public the homes of two of the greatest musicians ever to have lived in London. George Frideric Handel lived at 25 Brook Street from 1723 until his death in 1759. It was here that Handel wrote and rehearsed his greatest works, including Messiah and its ever popular ‘Hallelujah chorus’ – perhaps the most famous piece of classical music ever written. His stirring anthem ‘Zadok the Priest’, was also written in Brook Street and has accompanied the coronation of every British monarch since George II (for whom it was written in 1727), including HM King Charles III.

In 1968, Jimi Hendrix moved into an adjoining flat at number 23. Here, in the only place he said he felt truly at home, Hendrix entertained, inspired, and collaborated with other icons of British 60s rock music.

Handel Hendrix House has completed a £3million project to open all of Handel’s house to the public for the first time by restoring the basement and ground floor by faithfully recreated Handel’s basement kitchen with all its fixtures and fittings, carefully detailed on research and an inventory made shortly after the composer’s death.

Also

· Restored the ground floor parlours in which Handel would receive his guests and aristocratic patrons and in which his assistant, J.C. Smith, would sell tickets and subscriptions to new works.

· Restored the front façade of 25 Brook Street so that visitors can finally enter Handel’s home through his front door.

New things to see in Handel’s house include:

• Historic rooms presented as they might have been in the 1740s, when the composer was in a new burst of creative energy and commercial success writing dramatic oratorios.

• Recently acquired works of art, creating a collection representative of the more than 100 works of art Handel owned in Brook Street.

• New exhibitions about Handel’s music and the musicians he worked with and a mixed reality audio-visual display about the writing of Messiah in the very room in which it was composed.

In 2016, Jimi Hendrix’s flat in 23 Brook Street was brilliantly restored and opened to the public. To be enjoyed as a contrasting and complementary part to a visit to Handel’s home,

the Hendrix experience at Handel Hendrix House has been expanded as part of the Hallelujah Project:

• For the first time, visitors can walk up and down the stairs to his flat, where George Harrison famously had to step over one of Jimi’s other visitors who had passed out en route to the exit.

• A new exhibition features a film showing visitors exploring Hendrix’s legendary guitar technique and his influence on musicians and creatives, with high quality sound supported by Bang & Olufsen

• The film includes material uncovered by Handel Hendrix House through their national ‘Your Experience’ appeal for memories, images and stories of people’s encounters with Jimi Hendrix across the country.

A guide to Handel Hendrix House is now available on Bloomberg Connects, which can be translated into 12 different languages including French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Italian, Russian, Korean, Hindi, Japanese and Chinese. Details of the house can be found https://guides.bloombergconnects.org/en-US/guide/handelHendrixHouse