Leominster Festival 1980: Difference between revisions
No edit summary Tag: Reverted |
No edit summary Tag: Manual revert |
||
| Line 17: | Line 17: | ||
==Events by Date== | ==Events by Date== | ||
{| class=" | {| class="eventstable" | ||
|- | |- | ||
!Date | !Date | ||
Revision as of 10:38, 21 March 2024
| 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
| Date | Events |
|---|---|
| Sunday 8th June 1980 | Choral Festival Service All welcome at The Priory Church Leominster Idle Pleasures |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Saturday 14th June 1980 | Theatr Powys presents a Children's Street Entertainment Birmingham Philharmonic Orchestra |
| 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 |
| Friday 20th June 1980 | The Baccholian Singers of London Music for Male Consort Local Amateaur Talent Competition |
| Saturday 21st June 1980 | A Free Afternoon's Entertainment at The Grange The Festival Ball |
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 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
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
Wednesday 18th June 1980
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