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What do you think about St Andrew's Festival?
Have your say, e-mail norfolk@bbc.co.uk
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All events start at 7.30pm. |
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Tickets are available by
post from Marion Conway, 27 Victoria Rd, Gorleston, NR31
6EF.
Or pop into Music Lovers, Gorleston High St. Tel: 01493
440021 or Brahams Fashions, Market Row, Great Yarmouth.
Tel: 01493 857942. |
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Concessions are available
for full-time students, under-16s, OAPs, the registered
disabled and a companion. |
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Events will be held at the
Chapter House, Church Road and Lynn Grove High School,
off Beccles Road (A143). |
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The festival, which is based at the parish church,
was the brainchild of a late Gorleston vicar,
the Rev Tony Clemens.
He decided to set up a celebration which would
happen around St Andrew's Day on 30 November.
However, the first festival in 1969 was nearly
the last when heavy snow led to the cancellation of some events.
Despite the weather, the festival captured people's
imaginations and a number signed up to be patrons.
Chapter House home
The event moved to the end of October and by the
next year it had a new base when the church's octagonal Chapter
House opened.
Soon after a competitive festival was added - which
is now held as a separate event in the spring - although a concert
on this year's bill will feature two of its top musicians in concert
(on Monday 4 November).
Varied programme
Events start at the Chapter House on Saturday 26
October, with a programme of Gershwin's tunes performed by the trio
Red, Hot and Blue.
Among the highlights will be a visit to Lynn Grove
High School by the county's resident military band, the Dragoon
Guards on Saturday 2 November.
The Sheringham Shantymen make a return visit to
the festival, as do the Charleston Chasers.
The fortnight ends with a service on Sunday 10
November at 6.30pm when the Bishops' Chaplain and 91Èȱ¬ Radio Norfolk's
Pause For Thought contributor, Rev Jan McFarlane, will preach and
chat about her work.
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