Leominster Festival 1980

Leominster Festival 1980

Year	1980
Dates	8th - 21st June
Events	20

8th - 21st June 1980

The very first Leominster Festival opened in 1980 after at least two years of preparation and planning.

Programme Introduction

The Festival is to take place in various venues in the attractive small market town of Leominster. The town, which grew up around the Priory Church and is still largely medieval in character, is well worth a visit not only for the many interesting features it has to offer, but also for its setting in beautiful Herefordshire countryside close to the Wye Valley and Black Mountains of Wales.

The Leominster Festival Society is promoting this Festival in order to bring a varied programme of music, drama and the visual arts to the people of Leominster and the surrounding countryside. It is hoped that many visitors from further afield will consider it worthwhile including Leominster in their holiday plans. We should like to draw attention to the two Saturdays within the Festival fortnight, 14th and 21st June, when parents should bring their children to an entirely FREE entertainment in the town centre.

Events by Date (table)

Date	Events
Sunday 8th June 1980	Choral Festival Service All welcome at The Priory Church Leominster Idle Pleasures An entertainment with words and music
Monday 9th June 1980	Fashion Show Original designs by Richard and Helen Vine and Friends

Events by Date

Sunday 8th June 1980

Choral Festival Service
All welcome at The Priory Church Leominster

Idle Pleasures
An entertainment with words and music

Monday 9th June 1980

Fashion Show
Original designs by Richard and Helen Vine and Friends

Tuesday 10th June 1980

Leominster Choral Society Concert
Conductor - Vernon Thurgood

Wednesday 11th June 1980

An Evening with Jake Thackray

An Organ Recital
by Marc Rochester

Thursday 12th June 1980

Leominster Drama Group presents
Confusions
Five interlinked one-act plays by Alan Ayckbourn

Friday 13th June 1980

Tour of Leominster's Historic Buildings
with Mr J Tonkin

Live Pop and Disco

Saturday 14th June 1980

Theatr Powys presents a
Children's Street Entertainment

Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor - Kenneth Page

Sunday 15th June 1980

Lecture Recital
by Fritz Spiegl

Monday 16th June 1980

Leslie Penning and Company
in a programme of Renaissance Music and Original Works

Tuesday 17th June 1980

The New Delta Jazz Band

Wednesday 18th June 1980

Junior School Concert

The Leominster Arts Club Drama Group presents
Dark Lucy
A thriller by Philip King and Parnell Bradbury

Friday 20th June 1980

The Baccholian Singers of London
Music for Male Consort

Local Amateaur Talent Competition
Midsummer Madness

Saturday 21st June 1980

A Free Afternoon's Entertainment
at The Grange

The Festival Ball
with the Glenn Stephens Show Band