Thursday is almost the end of an exceptionally busy week. Packed houses since Monday, cafés buzzing and Memorial Hall with many more visitors than last year. We are starting to upload to our Flickr and YouTube channels, but those will be populated much more over the coming weeks. The Festival will move from Londonderry to the world wide web.
Apprentice Boys Memorial Hall and Siege Museum open 10am-5pm
Guns of Londonderry Demonstration – Memorial Hall Garden 11.30am and 2.30pm and by request.
The Siege Story – St Columb’s Cathedral. Regular performances from 12noon, 2pm, and 4pm.
Siege Tales – around the Walls. Regular performances 11.30am to 4.30pm
Old Fountain Tour – 11am, starting at the Thiepval Gallery, George Street
Highland Dance & Skirl – Grand Parade, regularly throughout the day
The Great War: Exhibition and Guide at the Thiepval Gallery, George Street. A pictorial exhibition looking at the local involvement in WW1. 2-4pm, 7-9pm.
Ulster at War: an exhibition of Ulster engagement in the Great War with a range of period memorabilia in the Memorial Hall’s Black Room – 10am-5pm.
Good Afternoon at the Mem – TEA DANCES at the Memorial Hall 2.30pm-4.30pm with music by Danny Feeney.
Lunchtime menu of Culture Bite performances 12.30-2.30pm:
SOMME TRIBUTE – 95th Anniversary Concert: the combined Hamilton Flute and Churchill Flute Bands – Memorial Hall 8pm -10pm. SOLD OUT – available on webcast: see facebook and weblog for details.
Followed by Trevor Keys presenting The Tahiti Showband with Crawford Bell at 10.30pm until late. SOLD OUT – available on webcast: see facebook and weblog for details. A limited number of tickets may be available on the night in the event that some leave following the Somme Tribute, though entry cannot be guaranteed.
Posted at 08:39 on Thursday 11th August 2011