Press release

PRESS RELEASE

Handel Hendrix House - the Mayfair museum once home to composer G.F. Handel and rock legend Jimi Hendrix at 25 Brook Street will be holding more than 20 events during September and October. These range from Hendrix and Handel – inspired performances by musicians such as Diana Moore & Julian Perkins, Zsombor Tóth-Vajna & Gabriella Ács, Guy Cutting, Will James and Andy Cortes, In addition, there will be activities such Guitar Saturdays and Wigs & Wiggles and Baroque & Roll sessions plus Georgian Cooking that will enhance visitors’ experiences at the weekend.

As Claire Davies, Deputy Director of Handel Hendrix House explains: “Handel used his house to host concerts, rehearsals, informal soirées, dinners and important business meetings. His house lived and breathed music as well as enterprise and innovation. Our concert series, Handel’s Salon, celebrates Handel’s music, his house, legacy and influence on other art forms, creating a programme that will excite and delight audiences. This season, we are exploring the theme of Handel in literature."

EVENTS IN SEPTEMBER & OCTOBER
The exhibition, Handel through Mozart’s eyes will run until Sunday, September 13, 2026

New Exhibition Hendrix in London - Step into Jimi Hendrix’s London and discover the story behind the music in this exhibition at Handel Hendrix House. Drawing on a remarkable archive of previously unseen material, the display offers a rare glimpse into Hendrix’s life, work and the world that surrounded him during his time at 23 Brook Street.

Tuesday 1 September Handel's Salon
Handel's Ladies: Letters, Lyrics, and Legacies with Diana Moore & Julian Perkins – 6.30pm Ticket price: £25
https://handelhendrix.org/events/an-evening-with-diana-moore-and-julian-perkins

Saturday 5 September Guitar Saturday
Join resident guitarist Nigel Jones to learn the inside track on Hendrix’s legendary techniques and sounds. Bring your guitar along, or borrow one from the house, and jam in the place that Hendrix called home. £20 including general admission
https://handelhendrix.org/events/saturday-guitar-days

Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 September 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/events/live-music

Saturday 12 & Sunday 13 September Georgian Cooking Weekend
10-4pm
Included in General Admission to the museum, come and see our food historians, Marc Meltonville and Robert Hoare bringing Handel’s kitchen to life with the sights, sounds and smells of an 18th century townhouse kitchen. Included in general admission Please note that food cannot be tasted during the daytime residency.
https://handelhendrix.org/events/georgian-cookery

Saturday 12 September Hot Chocolate with Handel
6pm – Ticket price: £25
The Georgians are famous for their love of hot chocolate, and Handel is recorded as enjoying it at breakfast (together with mutton broth!). At this exclusive early evening event in London’s only Georgian townhouse kitchen, which was restored in 2023, food historians Marc Meltonville and Robert Hoare demonstrate the making of the hot chocolate Handel and his contemporaries enjoyed, including a luxurious drink made with port wine. The event concludes with the opportunity to taste a sample of the drinks.
https://handelhendrix.org/events/hot-chocolate-with-handel

Sunday 13 September Wigs & Wiggles
Theme: Splish-Splash, all aboard the Royal Barge!10.30am & 11.15am - £8 per adult and £4 per child
Join us for three brand new musical adventures in Wigs and Wiggles, our interactive concert series for under 5s that brings the magic of Baroque music to life! Wigs and Wiggles invites children to sing, dance and move while exploring the vibrant world of Handel’s music.
https://handelhendrix.org/events/wigs-and-wiggles-an-interactive-childrens-concert-series

Thursday 17 September The Hallelujah House: Inside Handel's HQ | Exhibition – more details to follow

Wednesday 16 September The Jimi Sessions with Will James 
6:30pm & 7:30pm Tickets: £25
One of the UK's most exciting blues artists, Will James blends blues, soul and jazz with soulful vocals, exceptional guitar work and honest songwriting. His acclaimed album Sundancer reached No.1 on the USA Soul Blues Album Chart, cementing his reputation as one of the leading voices in modern British blues.
https://handelhendrix.org/events/the-jimi-sessions-will-james

Friday 18, Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 September The Hallelujah House Party – see separate press release

Saturday 26 & Sunday 27 September
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/events/live-music

Tuesday 29 September Handel's Salon
Handel's Arias: Love, Loss and Redemption with Zsombor Tóth-Vajna & Gabriella Ács
6.30pm Ticket price: £25
https://handelhendrix.org/events/handels-salon-with-zsombor-t%C3%B3th-vajna

Saturday 3 October Guitar Day
£20 including general admission
https://handelhendrix.org/events/saturday-guitar-days

Tuesday 6 October Handel in Letters | London Handel Festival
https://www.london-handel-festival.com/whats-on/Jb-handel-in-letters/

Saturday 10 & Sunday 11 October 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/events/live-music

Sunday 11 October Wigs & Wiggles 
Theme: Handel’s Housewarming
10.30am & 11.15am - £8 per adult and £4 per child
Join us for three brand new musical adventures in Wigs and Wiggles, our interactive concert series for under 5s that brings the magic of Baroque music to life! Wigs and Wiggles invites children to sing, dance and move while exploring the vibrant world of Handel’s music.
https://handelhendrix.org/events/wigs-and-wiggles-an-interactive-childrens-concert-series

Tuesday 13 October Handel's Salon with Guy Cutting
Waft Her, Angels, Through the Skies 
6.30pm Tickets: £25
Internationally renowned tenor, Guy Cutting presents a journey through the dramatic and emotional world of Handel.
https://handelhendrix.org/events/handels-salon-with-guy-cutting

Thursday 15 October The Jimi Sessions with Andy Cortes
6:30pm & 7:30pm Tickets: £25
London-based guitarist, singer and songwriter Andy Cortes is a leading figure on the UK blues scene. Having performed with artists including James Bay, K'naan and Bruno Major, he combines deep blues roots with exceptional musicianship. His forthcoming album, HOT JAM, captures the raw energy and spontaneity of live blues performance.
https://handelhendrix.org/events/the-jimi-sessions-with-andy-cortes

Saturday 24 & Sunday 25 October 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/events/live-music

Tuesday 27 October Handel's Salon with Chantefable 
6.30pm tickets: £25
Chantefable Duo Mariana Rodrigues (soprano) and Andrew Cowie (harpsichord) present a programme of music by Handel and his Europeancontemporaries interspersed with spoken poetry and improvisation.
https://handelhendrix.org/events/handels-salon-with-chantefablewith

Volunteer Tours
The tour will take place between 2-3pm and are available on a first-come, first-served basis. There is no need to book in advance - simply sign up on arrival at no extra cost (maximum 10 people per tour).

Plus every Thursday at 2pm – Seasonal talks with a member of the Curatorial Team.

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