Festival performers 2.45pm 2.45pm 2.45pm 3pm 3.15pm
3.15pm 3.30pm 3.30pm 3.30pm
3.30pm 3.45pm 4pm 4pm 4.15pm
4.45pm
The City Wall stage
Swinging the Lead Dockyard shantymen from the pubs of Chatham Castle Gardens stage Best-dressed Dickens adult character competition Blue Boar Lane performance area The Lamplighter Outside Oliver’s Wine Bar The Three Towns Theatre Company perform a Victorian Music Hall Rochester Library Oliver Twist Enters the Den of Thieves from the novel Oliver Twist. A reading by the Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship St Mary’s Meadow Music from Allcock and Brown Eastgate House gardens Dicken:About Boley Hill performance area Dance Alley performance The Guildhall Chamber My Grandma’s Bloomers. A lighthearted insight into a Victorian lady’s undergarments. Janet Peters will entertain you with stories about her very own grandmother and her bloomers Castle Gardens stage Adult gurning competition Blue Boar Lane performance area Right Royal Revels Outside Oliver’s Wine Bar Bagpipe music from the City of Rochester Band Castle Gardens Punch ‘n’ Judy with Crazee Hazee The City Wall stage Swinging the Lead Dockyard shantymen from the pubs of Chatham
Parade
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The Queen of Heaven Friday, 31 May, Rochester Cathedral In 2013 world-renowned choir The Sixteen will present its most far-reaching Choral Pilgrimage tour yet, encompassing 34 concerts around the UK. The tour, entitled The Queen of Heaven, will see Harry Christophers CBE and his choir perform glorious music in churches and cathedrals for which it was written. The group will take you through the musical evolution of the Allegri’s legendary and much-requested Miserere. The programme also features stunning music by the ‘Prince of Music’ Palestrina, as well another brilliant yet contrasting setting of the Miserere by James MacMillan.
Tickets: £10/15/25 BOOKING NOW OPEN National box office: 01904 651485 Local box office: Medway Visitor Information Centre 01634 338141 Doors open at 6.30pm Pre-concert talk at 7pm
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BAE Systems Brass Band Colin Greenslade, ‘Fagin’ Cyril Baldwin, ‘Samuel Pickwick’ Dance Alley Dizzy O’Dare Frumpid Stumblestone Gerald Dickens, the great great grandson of Charles Dickens Glenduart Pipe Band City of Rochester Pipe Band Janet Peters, ‘Mrs Pocket’ Kay Rouse, Camera Obscura Keith Beckford, ‘The Lamplighter’ Phil Haze, ‘Crazee Hazee’ Play on Words Theatre Company Right Royal Revels Robert Styles, Punch and Judy Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship Rochester Pickwick Club Sandi and Peter Digby, The Duel Seven Dials Rapscallions Shirley Goodhew Three Towns Theatre Company Wilgress-Whipps & Grew Skinners Rats Camine Swinging the Lead Greg McDonald Allcock and Brown
Acknowledgements Medway Council acknowledges support from: Arriva Rochester Cathedral City of Rochester Society Rochester City Centre Forum Confucious Chinese restaurant Rochester and Chatham Dickens Fellowship Dockyard, Chatham Slinders Florist Shirley Goodhew and Angela Maybourne St John Ambulance (Kent) Kent Police Thelma Grove Gillingham Lions Simon Kelsey (photographer) Mirror Group Newspapers
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