Cultural Tours & Music Holidays in the UK

Escorted Cultural Tours & Music Holidays, in association with Kirker Holidays, are designed for those with an interest in history, art, gardens, architecture and music.

All Kirker’s escorted holidays consist of small exclusive groups and are led by carefully selected lecturers who will help you experience the best of what your chosen destination has to offer, but they will also allow plenty of time to enjoy your surroundings at a leisurely pace with the company of your fellow travellers.

Explore our featured destinations and exclusive special offers.

The gardens of Dorset & Somerset

A FOUR NIGHT HOLIDAY | 12 JULY 2021

Expert horticulturalist and popular Kirker tour leader Kirsty Fergusson will escort this highly anticipated new itinerary ‘behind the scenes’ of some of the most wonderful gardens in the south-west of England.
Based in the picturesque small town of Bridport, close to Dorset’s World Heritage Jurassic Coast, we will discover kitchen gardens, meadows, historic orchards, elegant water gardens and subtropical plant collections.

Price from £1,340 (single supp. £358) for four nights including two lunches and two dinners

Gardens & galleries of Cornwall

A FIVE NIGHT HOLIDAY | 19 APRIL 2022

Cornwall’s unique microclimate makes it the perfect destination for a spring escape, and the warmth combined with the special quality of the light here has long attracted both artists and horticulturalists.
In the company of expert gardener and writer Kirsty Fergusson, we will visit some of the very best of the county’s gardens – both public and private – as well as important art galleries including the recently
extended Tate St Ives.

Price from £1,368 for five nights including one lunch and three dinners. No single supplement.

Highlands & Islands of Scotland

A NINE NIGHT HOLIDAY | 21 SEPTEMBER 2021

From St Columba to the Lords of the Isles, Bonnie Prince Charlie,
Samuel Johnson and beyond, the Highlands and Islands fire the
imagination like no other region of Britain. On this tour we follow
in the footsteps of some of Scotland’s most famous characters – and meet some of their descendants. Like them, we will discover how the Highlands confronted the modern world, and the tragedy and romance that followed. Starting and finishing in Edinburgh, we will explore the Highlands in the company of an expert in the history and culture of the West Highlands and Finlaggan Pursuivant – herald to the chiefs of Clan Donald.

Price from £2,996 (single supp. £290) for nine nights including four lunches and three dinners.

The vineyards of kent

A FOUR NIGHT HOLIDAY | 17 OCTOBER 2021

The Garden of England offers a fruitful abundance, and in recent years,
viticulture has taken root firmly in the region – from champagne
rivalling sparkling wines to impressive whites and increasingly well
respected reds. In the company of The Spectator wine editor and
author Jonathan Ray, we will meet the county’s finest winemakers – and a brewer – and taste the very best that Kent has to offer. Based close to the cathedral city of Canterbury, we shall also take time to enjoy exquisite gardens, galleries and plenty of the finest local produce.

Price from £1,558 per person (single supp. £250) for four nights including two lunches, two dinners and three winery visits with tastings.

The three choirs festival in Worcester

FOUR NIGHT HOLIDAYS | 24 JULY 2021 & 28 JULY 2021

AN EIGHT NIGHT HOLIDAY | 24 JULY 2021

Following the cancellation of the 2020 Festival, the Director has created a new programme for 2021 which retains as many artists and pieces as possible. You can choose one of two four night holidays or stay for the whole festival (eight nights). A full sightseeing programme will include Sir Edward Elgar’s birthplace at Broadheath and Little Malvern where he is buried.

Price from £1,209 (24 July, single supp. £260), £1,298 (28 July, single supp. £260) or £2,498 (24 July, 8 nights, single supp. £520) including dinner each day and performance tickets

The Kirker Music Festival at the Hotel Tresanton

THREE NIGHT HOLIDAYS | 6 DECEMBER 2021
& 14 MARCH 2022

Our annual visit to Olga Polizzi’s fabled Hotel Tresanton in St. Mawes is one of our most popular holidays each year, and we shall be returning first in early December 2021, when the log fire and candlelit restaurant offer a tempting escape, and again in March 2022, when spring arrives early to Cornwall. Performances in December will be given by the Maxwell String Quartet and will include works by Schubert, Haydn, Mozart, Dvorak and Beethoven. In March we will be joined by the exciting young members of the Karski Quartet.

Price from £1,296 (December, single supp. £297) or £1,262 (March, single supp. £298) for three nights including three dinners and three concerts.

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