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The Guards Division

MUSIC FESTIVAL Tuesday 27 June - Sunday 2 July 2017

A Festival of Music celebrating 100 years of the Massed Bands of the five regiments of Foot Guards.

From Classical to Jazz, Glenn Miller to 18th Century Music, the bands of the Grenadier, Coldstream, Scots, Irish and Welsh Guards provide music in a week-long festival including a cinematic screening of the iconic 1916 film ‘The Battle of the Somme’ accompanied by a live performance of the specially composed orchestral soundtrack.

FREE ADMISSION

THE GUARDS’ CHAPEL, BIRDCAGE WALK, LONDON, SW1E 6HQNEAREST TUBE: ST JAMES’S PARK

At the Royal Military Chapel (Guards’ Chapel)

TUESDAY 27 JUNE

1.10pm - Guards Big BandMarking 100 years since the birth of Buddy Rich

& Ella Fitzgerald featuring trumpeter Adam Rapa 4pm - Jazz in the Afternoon

Flute & Jazz Trio play ‘Jazz Sebastian Bach’7pm - The Countess of Wessex’s

String Orchestra

WEDNESDAY 28 JUNE

1.10pm - Guards Woodwind SoloistsTo include music by Saint-Saens, Glinka, Speil

4pm - Jazz in the AfternoonContemporary Jazz

7pm - ‘Brass Explosion’ Guards Brass meets Surrey Brassfeaturing trumpeter Adam Rapa

THURSDAY 29 JUNE

1.10pm - The Duke of York’s BandThe world-renowned 18th Century

Band of the Coldstream Guards4pm - Jazz in the Afternoon

The Dixie Swingers6pm - Band of the Scots Guards

Songs from the Shows with Cream Teas for a Summer’s Evening on Chapel Square

FRIDAY 30 JUNE

1.10pm - Guards Saxophone Choir Choral Music arranged for Saxophones

4pm - Jazz in the AfternoonTrumpeter Lance Corporal Ben Beavis & friends

7pm - Band of the Coldstream GuardsMusic composed for the Military Band

The Guards Division Programme

SATURDAY 1 JULY

3pm & 7pm - Commemoration of the Battle of the SommeLive cinematic screening of the iconic 1916 film

accompanied by The Countess of Wessex’s String Orchestra, String Ensemble of the Royal Marines and the Royal Air Force Salon Orchestra

8.30pm - Remembrance Serviceat the Flanders Fields Memorial Garden

SUNDAY 2 JULY

5pm - Former Musicians of the Household Division Reunite in Concert

FREE ADMISSION