Leominster Festival 1980

8th - 21st June 1980

An introduction to the Festival as taken from the programme of events...

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

Sunday 8th June 1980 - 3:00pm

Choral Festival Service
All welcome at The Priory Church Leominster

Sunday 8th June 1980 - 8:00pm

Idle Pleasures
An entertainment with words and music

Monday 9th June 1980 - 8:00pm

Fashion Show
Original designs by Richard and Helen Vine and Friends

Tuesday 10th June 1980 - 7:30pm

Leominster Choral Society Concert
Conductor - Vernon Thurgood

Wednesday 11th June 1980 - 8:00pm

An Evening with Jake Thackray
At the Royal Oak Hotel

Wednesday 11th June 1980 - 7:30pm

An Organ Recital
By Marc Rochester

Thursday 12th June 1980 - 7:30pm
Leominster Drama Group presents
Confusions
Five interlinked one-act plays by Alan Ayckbourn

Friday 13th June 1980 - 7:30pm

Tour of Leominster's Historic Buildings
with Mr J Tonkin

Friday 13th June 1980 - 7:30pm

Live Pop and Disco

Saturday 14th June 1980 - 2:30pm onwards
Theatr Powys presents
Children's Street Entertainment
Also late night pub entertainment

Saturday 14th June 1980 - 7:30pm

Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra (1980)
Conductor - Kenneth Page

Sunday 15th June 1980 - 8:00pm

Lecture Recital
by Fritz Spiegl

Monday 16th June 1980 - 8:00pm

Leslie Penning and Company
in a programme of Renaissance Music and original works

Tuesday 17th June 1980 - 8:00pm

The New Delta Jazz Band

Wednesday 18th June 1980 - 7:30pm

Junior School Concert

Thursday 19th June 1980 - 7:30pm
Leominster Arts Club Drama Group presents
Dark Lucy
A thriller by Philip King and Parnell Bradbury

Friday 20th June 1980 - 8:00pm

The Baccholian Singers of London
Music for male consort

Friday 20th June 1980 - 7:00pm
Local amateur talent competition
Midsummer Madness

Saturday 21st June 1980 - 2:30pm

A Free Afternoon's Entertainment
at The Grange

Saturday 21st June 1980 - 8:00pm - 12:00 midnight

The Festival Ball
With the Glenn Stephens Show Band