welcome to the 14th

mayor’s thames festival

London owes its very existence

to the Thames and we celebrate
this wonderful city by dancing
in the streets, feasting on bridges
and playing by the river’s edge.
Thames Festival’s focus is on
creating participatory events
for both young and old. It is free
for everyone to enjoy. More than
anything, this is London’s festival.
Come on down to the river and
have a fantastic weekend!
Adrian Evans, Festival Director

next year’s dates:

10 & 11 september
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freedom stage one
saturday & sunday, 12 noon–10pm
jubilee gardens

The sound of the new underground, resounding with artists that

are creating a buzz: bands that are intelligent, cool, self-aware,
independent-minded and won’t be boxed in by musical categories.

Resident DJs Nick Luscombe and Max Reinhardt with MC Rita Ray

Saturday
12pm Poppy & Friends
1pm Sam Sallon
2pm Hannah Peel
3pm Tawiah
4.10pm Sweet Billy Pilgrim
5.15pm Krystle Warren
6.20pm The Invisible
7.25pm Ben Westbeech
8.30pm Saravah Soul

Sunday
12pm Kersha Bailey
12.55pm Delta Maid
1.55pm Lail Arad
2.55pm Son of Dave
4pm Ty
5.05pm CW Stoneking
6.10pm Kitty, Daisy & Lewis
7.15pm Speech Debelle
8.30pm Ska Cubano

The Festival Freedom Stage has been programmed with

The Shrine’s Elliott Jack, Max Reinhardt & Rita Ray.

Photo: Ska Cubano by Louise Roberts 02/03

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all eyes on korea one
saturday & sunday, 12 noon–10pm
jubilee gardens

The best of Korean contemporary arts and culture, traditional

foods and workshops with the artists and performers. Presented
in collaboration with the Korean Cultural Centre UK.

Saturday
12 & 4.30pm Taekwondo demonstrations by world class fighters
1.30 & 6pm Break Out extreme dance comedy
3pm Winterplay Korea’s foremost mainstream jazz band
7.30pm Baramgot the group improvise on traditional
instruments to international acclaim

Sunday
12 & 4.30pm Taekwondo see above
1.30 & 6pm Break Out see above
3pm Baramgot see above
7.30pm Winterplay see above

7pm A sampling and demonstration of bibimbap,

part of Korea’s cultural cuisine.

Workshop timetable
Open to all, these sessions provide an opportunity for festival-goers
to unleash their inner b-boy, martial artist or musician.

Saturday
1pm Taekwondo
2.30pm Break Out
4.30pm Baramgot
5.30pm Taekwondo
7pm Break Out
Sunday
1pm Taekwondo
2.30pm Break Out
4pm Baramgot

Photo: Break Out 04/05

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bbc blast on tour one
at the thames festival
saturday, 11.15am–7pm & sunday, 10.45am–6pm
main truck at southbank centre square
bat van under hungerford bridge

Exciting free BBC Blast workshops for 13- to 19-year-olds, including

fashion design, animation, TV presenting, 3D games design,
photography, music production, and much more.

Blast is the BBC’s youth creativity service and is online, on tour

and on TV. From first-timers to emerging artists, Blast is a powerful
and free resource which inspires and supports creative journeys
for teenagers.

bbc blast film residency

supported by the bfi
A group of young trainee film-makers aged 16 to 19 are undertaking
production training with BBC Blast to create four original film shorts
to tell behind-the-scenes stories of the Thames Festival. You may
even be interviewed by them over the Festival weekend!

The final edited short films will be screened at the BFI at the end
of September, and on the BBC Blast and Thames Festival websites.

Photo: BBC Blast workshop 06/07

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southbank centre one
live african music in queen elizabeth hall foyer

Saturday Sunday
1.30pm Bulawayo 2pm 4Seasons Band & Temitope Ajayi
4pm Sona Jobarteh
6pm Laye Sow

cadbury spots v stripes

saturday, 12 noon–10pm & sunday, 12 noon–7pm
jubilee gardens and potters fields park

To celebrate being the official treat provider to the London 2012

Olympic and Paralympic Games, Cadbury has created Spots v
Stripes – the biggest, longest, most fun game ever. Come and
challenge our amazing giant Eyeball game in Jubilee Gardens.
At Potters Fields Park you can battle the clock to catch spotty and
stripey fish! For more information visit www.spotsvstripes.com

photo masterclasses
saturday & sunday, 12 noon–5pm
under hungerford bridge

Amateur Photographer and What Digital Camera are providing

free drop-in classes for Festival visitors. Nigel Atherton, Editor of WDC,
and photographers including professional photographer and author
John Freeman will give presentations throughout the day, giving you
top tips on getting great photos of the festival.

Don’t forget to enter our Photo Competition for a chance to win

an Olympus EPL1 kit worth over £700 and great runner-up prizes.

Photo: Ray Wise For details of Festival Fireworks see page 13 08/09
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new european village one
saturday & sunday, 12 noon–10pm

Hungary, Poland and Romania will be presenting traditional folk crafts

such as embroidery, textile-weaving, lace-making, pottery and wood-
carving. Come and see traditional Romanian loom demonstrations, see
how the world famous Hungarian Zsolnay porcelain is painted by hand,
and learn about the work of the European Commission in the UK.

festival market
saturday & sunday, 12 noon–10pm

Over the weekend, the Thames Festival Market showcases the very
best of small scale independent designer/makers, complemented
by a selection of superlative food providers.

Each area of the festival site will have food stalls, arts and crafts
traders, and bars serving a variety of refreshments to cater to your
every need. Over 300 individual traders have been carefully selected
from across the UK, with an emphasis on artisans producing high
quality products, and a clear policy on sustainable and ethical
sourcing of produce.

Photo: Angell 10/11

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night carnival two
sunday, 7.15–9.30pm
victoria embankment, blackfriars bridge & upper ground

This year’s Night Carnival promises to be bigger and better than ever,
with over 2,000 dancers, musicians and masqueraders taking to the
streets in an unrivalled display of street arts and creativity.

The 30 groups taking part are:

A.P.P.L.E, ArtStart, Blocofogo, Brunel Engine House Museum,
Close Act (the Netherlands), Caporales San Simon UK, Emergency
Exit Arts, Emily Tracy with Gayhurst School, the Fanfara din Vorona
(Romania), Feltham Arts Association, Festive Road, Flamingo
Carnival Arts, Fox Carnival Band, Genesis Carnival Company,
HAFAD, Imagineer Productions, Inspiration Arts, Kinetika Bloco,
Latin American Multicultural Group, London School of Samba,
Mandinga Arts, Morenada Bloque Kantuta, Open Blue, Paraiso
School of Samba, Same Sky, SE1 United, Shademakers (Germany),
Sunshine International Arts, Taru, Trans-Siberian March Band.

fireworks finale
sunday, 9.45pm
river thames between waterloo and blackfriars bridges

London’s best mid-river display is fired from two barges on the

Thames between Waterloo and Blackfriars Bridges. This year’s
commission really stretches the boundaries of pyrotechnic creativity.

Commissioned from Pains Fireworks, display designer Mike Jones

was winner of the Montreal International Fireworks Competition
in 2007, considered within the industry to be the Olympics of the
fireworks world.

Photo: Paraiso School of Samba by Alex Pavlou 12/13

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watch this space two
festival
saturday & sunday, national theatre square

Lunapark – De Stijle, Want... (Netherlands)

In a mere 1min and 23secs, experience all the fun of the fair –
the excitement, the thrills, the fear, the breathlessness and the
sense of relief when it’s all over.
Saturday & Sunday, 2–5pm 

Fanfare Tout Terrain – Les Grooms (France)

Anarchic French brass band who surprise, delight and make
you jump with their manic musical diversions.
Saturday 1pm & 6.30pm, Sunday 1pm & 4pm

Überfluss – Bängditos (Germany)

An unreliable, giant pyrotechnic fountain that guarantees a wet
weekend, whatever the weather; waterproofs optional.
Saturday 10pm, Sunday 8pm

thames beach
sunday, 10am–2pm
foreshore at gabriel’s wharf

Join Thames21 and the Environment Agency as they bring the

foreshore to life! Thames21, London’s leading waterways charity, will
be running a whole host of fun events for people, young and old. Build
a sandcastle, have a go at welly-throwing, or find and decorate an
interesting pebble to take away with you.

Photo: Linda Cornell 14/15

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the house of fairy two
tales’ travelling
art circus
saturday & sunday, 12 noon–7.30pm
bernie spain gardens

The House of Fairy Tales present their spectacular, participative

Travelling Art Circus with a series of magical water-themed workshops
and activities for families and people of all ages.

With the help of over 100 primary schools from 33 London

boroughs, six interactive themed exhibition spaces have been
created by the children and artists who took part in the Thames
Festival’s pan-London education project, with a fully functioning
waterwheel sculpture at its centre.

The Waterwheel embodies ideas of sustainable energy, creative

innovation, storytelling and the values of water, inspired by children
who understand the importance of such things, both now and for
the future!

The House of Fairy Tales is a child-centred, adult-friendly arts project

instigated by acclaimed artists Gavin Turk and Deborah Curtis. The
House of Fairy Tales create immersive theatrical environments where
learning is play and play is a fine art.

Check out the website to see more www.houseoffairytales.org

Photo: The House of Fairy Tales 16/17

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hoedown stage two
saturday & sunday, 12 noon–8.30pm
oxo tower wharf
curated by the house of fairy tales

Saturday
BBC Folk Club 2010 award-winners The Magpie’s Nest
present A Field Trip in Folk
12pm Manifesto DJs Alberto & Todd Hart
1pm Dogan Mehmet Anglo-Turkish gypsy-punk
2pm Uiscedwr British contemporary folk trio
3pm Sam Lee and the Gillie Boys English folk with
a hint of 70’s kraut-rock, disco and bluegrass
4pm Cath and Phil Tyler American balladry
5pm Jigjaw all-singing, all-dancing quartet
6pm Princes in the Tower Baroque folk rock
6.30pm Perunika Bulgarian acappella group
7pm Walsh and Pound banjo and harmonica wizards
7.40pm Ustad Haji Ameer Khan & The Khan Brothers
traditional Qawaali

Sunday
Swamp Rock present A Musical Gumbo
12pm Ice Cold Idiots
12.30pm Alonim Israeli Dancers Spanish-style and Yemenite
dance, with the Southgate Belly Dancers
1pm Severed Limb rockabilly/skiffle
2pm DJs Flying Home and Lil’ Queenie
2.30pm Hopkele Klezmer ceilidh with caller Ilana Cravitz
3.30pm DJs Flying Home and Lil’ Queenie
3.50pm East Of Ealing eclectic fiddle-driven global mix
4.45pm DJs Flying Home and Lil’ Queenie
5.05pm Kremlinaires Soviet Swing and Bolshevik Boogie!
6.15pm DJs Flying Home and Lil’ Queenie
6.30pm Suzie Wheller Zydeco dance workshop
7.15pm Elvis Fontenot & The Sugarbees
European Zydeco band of the year 2006 & 2009

Photo: Uiscedwr by Hannah Partaj 18/19

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rivers of the world two
exhibition
thursday 19 august to sunday 12 september
11am–6pm at gallery@oxo
(extending to 9pm on 11 & 12 september)
all day along the riverside walkway

In 2010, students from London, Kolkata (India), Szentendre (Hungary),

Paris (France), Bangkok (Thailand), Washington DC (USA) and Istanbul
(Turkey) worked with artists to create 64 magnificent artworks inspired
by the study of their, or their partner city’s, river.

The artworks are on display along the banks of the River Thames and in
the gallery@ oxo as part of the Thames Festival and will also be enjoyed
by millions of people in the coming months as they travel to riverside
locations in each of the participating cities.

‘Every time when I see the river I now wonder, what would the rivers
want to tell us? I think I know. The rivers want to tell us to take care of
them’, Kanomcake (pupil), Sirirattanathorn School, Bangkok

Rivers of the World is the Festival’s flagship art and education project.
Delivered in partnership with the British Council’s Connecting
Classrooms, and with support from HSBC Global Education Trust, the
project links schools and over 2,000 young people around the world
through common river themes.

gallery@oxo is owned and managed by Coin Street Community Builders, www.coinstreet.org

Rivers of the World is a Thames Festival project delivered in partnership with the British Council’s
Photo: Cengelkoy 4 Murat Ilkögretim Okulu with artist Barıs Karayazgan (Turkey) Connecting Classrooms and with support from HSBC Global Education Trust. 20/21
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archaos – two
the sensations of the
circus world
thursday 9 to sunday 12 september
11am–7pm, open until 8.30pm on 11 & 12 september
bargehouse, oxo tower wharf

Between 1988 and 1991 a radical French circus company called

Archaos scandalized the UK with their dangerous chainsaw-juggling,
raunchy Gallic attitude and explosive, two-fingers-in-the-face-of-Health
& Safety performances. The UK circus scene was shaken to its very
core and would never be the same again.

Archaos toured the world, but they were at their best in the UK – press
and audiences loved them and well over one hundred Brits attempted
to run away and join the maverick troupe. Perhaps predictably, the
dream ended with a bang; bankruptcy ensued when The Cathedral
tent was destroyed by gale force winds.

This exhibition features photographs by Gavin Evans, Ian Patrick,

Philippe Cibille and Dominique Margot and it tells the Archaos story
in press clippings, video extracts, personal memories and a history
based on original material by Sophie Kennedy Martin.

On Saturday 11 at 4pm, for the first time in over twenty years,

Mark Borkowski, the publicist behind the “mad, bad and dangerous
to know” Archaos image, will reveal some of the dark arts employed
to launch the infamous circus troupe.

Bargehouse is owned and managed by Coin Street Community Builders, www.coinstreet.org

Photo: Gavin Evans 22/23

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lady luck jive stage three
saturday & sunday, 12 noon–10pm
tate modern forecourt

The Jive Stage and al fresco ballroom return with a jam-packed

weekend of swing, jive and lindy hop for all, whether you’re an
aficionado on the dance floor or just a beginner.

Saturday
12pm London Swing Dance Society
2pm The Bombshellettes
3pm DJ Tim Jumpin’ Jive
4pm La Belle Vie Band
5pm DJ Lady Kamikaze
6pm Dom James and his Dixie Ticklers
7pm DJ El Nino
7.30pm The Strumpettes
7.45pm The Baron and Missy’s Misadventures
8pm Number Nine
9pm DJ El Nino

Sunday
12pm Maddy’s Jiving School
2pm The Jive Aces
3pm DJ Count Sizzle
4pm The Mule Skinners
5pm DJ Lady Kamikaze
6pm Sugar Ray Ford, Zephyrs of Swing
7pm DJ Lady Kamikaze
7.30pm The Strumpettes
7.45pm The Baron and Missy’s Misadventures
8pm James Hunter
9pm DJ El Nino

The Lady Luck Jive Stage was programmed with El Nino, founder
and resident DJ at the Lady Luck and Black Cotton Club.

Photo: Richard Thomson 24/25

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tate movie project three
saturday & sunday, 10am–6pm
tate modern forecourt

CBBC has teamed up with the Tate Movie Project to provide

a two-day art, film and animation event at the Thames Festival.

Children will be able to drop in and have a go at a range of activities

including drawing and animating. There will be experts from BAFTA,
Aardman and CBBC on hand to provide useful demos, talks and tips
on film-making and animation.

As well as hearing from the experts, children can contribute their

drawings, sounds and ideas to the Tate Movie Project, a 20-minute
animated film produced by Aardman Animations (the makers of
Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep) to be shown on BBC TV
in 2011.

Part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad, the Tate Movie Project
is supported by the Legacy Trust UK, BP and CBBC.

www.tatemovie.co.uk

walk & explore london

saturday, 9.30am–4.30pm
tate modern forecourt

Walk & Explore is a Children’s Society sponsored walking

adventure. What better way to start your festival day than by enjoying
the capital’s sights and walking its famous bridges as you wind
your way through London?

The walk will officially start at 10.30am. Participants should

aim to arrive between 9.45am and 10.15am in order to receive
their free t-shirt, route map, walker ID badge and stamp station
postcard for the children.

Photo: Lorna Palmer 26/27

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feast on the bridge three
saturday, 12 noon–10pm
southwark bridge

‘Feast on the Bridge is about bringing people together in celebration

to share food, to talk, to dance and to reclaim a beautiful public space
in the heart of the city.’ Clare Patey – Curator, Feast on the Bridge

Feast on the Bridge, London’s most inspiring and spectacular food

event, returns for a fourth year. As well as delicious food from some
of the UK’s best sustainable producers, there will be workshops,
baking, live music, dancing and making merry!

This year, Brockwell Bake will set up their bakery on the bridge,
milling heritage wheat grown on London allotments and baking
bread in wood-fired ovens. There will be a giant fruit salad toss made
from surplus fruit, along with mass toasting and a filmic finale from
Magnificent Revolution’s cycle-powered cinema. Come and learn
about bees and wormeries, and try your hand at thatching, butter-
churning and corn dolly-making.

Other highlights include: shadow puppets, edible hats, scarecrows,

composting, skep-making, cake-decorating, morris men, food stories
and much, much more…

Live music from Les Apaches, Errol Linton, Movimiento Cultural,

Amigo Artista, Brassroots, Mariachi Mexteca, Fanfara din Vorona,
Trans-Siberian March Band and Hot Club of Belleville.

Photo: Barry Lewis 28/29

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bringing the bones three
to life
saturday 4 to sunday 19 september, 10am–1pm and 2–5pm
by bankside pier

Inspired by his encounters with Indian tigers in the Ganges Delta,

artist Mark Coreth is sculpting a life-sized tigress climbing down to her
cub. Starting with a plaster skeleton, the animals will be completed
over the festival weekend with the assistance of volunteers from the
public. Part of WWF’s Year of the Tiger Campaign.

firing on the foreshore

saturday, 12 noon–6pm
foreshore by the globe theatre

Join the Bankside STEWards firing pots made from Thames clay on
the Thames foreshore as they were 6,000 years ago. The fires will be
extinguished by the incoming tide at about 2.30pm.

archaeological walks
saturday, 12 noon and 1pm
the globe river steps

Come and walk on the Thames foreshore where you can find 10,000
years of multicultural history beneath your feet. Thames archaeologist
Dr Fiona Haughey leads tours revealing the mysteries of the river, from
prehistoric forests to Roman roof tiles and 6,000-year-old pots.

Photo: Brian Skilton 30/31

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cutter races three
sunday, 2–3pm
southwark bridge to waterloo bridge and
back to millennium bridge

Cutters date from the early fifteenth century and were the chosen
vessel used by officials like the Admiralty and Customs. There is live
commentary on the race on Millennium Bridge.

river parade
saturday, 2.50–4.45pm
queen elizabeth II pier (by the o2) to millbank pier (pimlico)
and back to tower bridge

From pleasure cruisers to sailing barges, luxury yachts to oyster

smacks, the Thames Festival River Parade combines exceptional
historic vessels with everyday working boats. This year the Parade
will be heralded by the Charmborough Ring, whose peal will be
echoed by riverside churches from Greenwich to Lambeth.
There is live commentary on the Parade at Potters Fields Park.

barge-driving races
sunday, 12.30–1pm & 3.30–4.15pm

These races re-enact the way watermen manoeuvred their

barges on the Thames in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Modern-day watermen and lightermen compete in the main race,
while the Newcomers’ Race is for friends, family and apprentices.
Live commentary from Millennium Bridge.

12.30–1pm Newcomers’ Race (Tower Bridge to Waterloo Bridge)

3.30–4.15pm Steve Faldo Memorial Barge-Driving Race
(Tower Bridge to Westminster Bridge)

Photo: Angell 32/33

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a river enquiry four
saturday & sunday

Three British artists, commissioned by home live art in collaboration

with the Mayor’s Thames Festival, present new works created in
response to the River Thames. Through performance, text and
action each artist explores a different dimension of our present-day
relationship with London’s river.

Thames Water – Amy Sharrocks

12–7pm at Potters Fields Park

Amy Sharrocks is filling a paddling pool with water from the Thames
and inviting people to roll up their trousers to wade through the water
of the city.

Save Me – Search Party

3–5pm at London Bridge / HMS Belfast
7–9pm at Tower Bridge / HMS Belfast

Save Me tests the limits of intimacy between two people separated

by the River Thames. Using semaphore and Morse code two unique
conversations take place between HMS Belfast and the distant
bridges on either side.

Cold Water Fun – Tim Etchells

Imagine the city and its river in new and unexpected ways through
this virtual programme of events for the River Thames. Pick up a
pamphlet from the Programme Point and selected stalls in
the Blue Ribbon Village.

Photo: Tim Mitchell 34/35

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kids’ choir four
saturday, 1–2pm
the scoop at more london

In 2010 the Mayor’s Thames Festival has commissioned the

internationally renowned British composer Jonathan Dove and
librettist Alasdair Middleton to compose a new cantata, inspired
by the River Thames, for a thousand children’s voices. River Songs
will be performed for the first time as a spectacular opening event
at this year’s festival.

Kids’ Choir is a Year 5 singing project which builds upon the highly
successful model developed by the Thames Festival since 2003,
aimed at increasing and supporting singing in schools.

sing for water

sunday, 1–2pm
the scoop at more london

Choirs from across the UK will journey to The Scoop at More London
to sing in a unique, massed choir concert, raising money for WaterAid.
Co-directed by Michael Harper and Roxane Smith, Sing for Water
features an international repertoire of songs – from Croatia to Korea –
making global connections through water.

This year looks set to be the biggest yet with over 800 singers
registered from 50 choirs, some of whom will travel hundreds
of miles to take part.

Photo: Barry Lewis 36/37

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the scoop four
at more london
Some of the UK’s best street acts entertaining young and old with
a mix of slapstick, poetic puppetry and ground-breaking juggling.

Saturday
3 & 5.30pm Anyone for Tennis – Fairly Famous Family
Wimbledon comes to the Thames Festival. New balls please.

3.30pm London Bulgarian Choir

This forty-strong award-winning choir is Radio 3’s
‘Open’ Choir of the Year.

4.15 & 6.45pm Gaiety Engine – The Strangelings

A wolf-boy, a fakir, and a mermaid named Terence.

8pm The Lost World – Paper Cinema

What happens when inkpots, photocopies, cardboard, angle-poise
lamps and projectors collide? Part puppet show, part cinema,
a fascinating and haunting mix of live music and animation. Arthur
Conan Doyle’s beloved tale of adventure, discovery and dinosaurs.

9pm Hymn for London Bridge – Bevis Bowden’s short film of

Nick Franglen’s improvised performance created in response to the
massed choir of commuters on London Bridge over a 24 period.

9.30pm Nightflyer – Paper Cinema

Our hero crosses the night in a mysterious train, in search
of the lost flying girl.

Sunday
3 & 5.30pm The Sweet Life – Gandini Juggling
A cheeky celebration of summer life in the city inspired by
Fellini’s ‘La Dolce Vita’.

4.15 & 6.45pm Sports Day – Bread and Butter Theatre

Olympic legends attempt to uncover the inner Olympian hiding
in all of us.

8pm Night Clubbing – Gandini Juggling

Illuminated clubs programmed to fade, strobe and change colour.
Photo: Paper Cinema 38/39
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blue ribbon village four
saturday & sunday, 12 noon–7pm
potters fields park

The Blue Ribbon Village is the Thames Festival’s family-friendly

interactive river and environment zone. Decorated by beautiful flags
made by artist Shona Watt, Potters Fields Park is the place to explore
the river’s wildlife, the industries it supports and its history. The Blue
Ribbon Village is also the place to find out about protecting natural
habitats and the UK’s diverse animal species.

Wildlife Man Find out about the everyday wildlife in rivers

and ponds by taking part in a mini pond-dipping workshop.

The Amazing Cycle-Powered Answer to Everything Machine

Join Professor Kayoss and his host of recycled puppets
for 40 minutes of hilarious environmental awareness.

Whale of a Time Workshop Have a go at modeling your favourite

animal out of clay whilst finding out about endangered species.

Natural England Test what you know about the plants and animals
of England in a biodiversity quiz and get creative with creature crafts.

Storytelling Take your imagination on a journey downriver

with Kate Portal’s songs and stories.

Plus: Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, Bert and Betty Books, British Divers
Marine Life Rescue, Coral Cay Conservation, Greenpeace, Inland Waterways
Association, Kenya Jacaranda Heritage Sailing, London Beekeepers Association,
London Coastguard, London Ships, Maritime Volunteer Service, Oxfam, PLA,
Ramblers, River of Flowers, River Thames Alliance, RNLI, Thames21, ThamesArt,
Thames Clippers, Thames Discovery Programme, Thames Estuary Partnership,
Thames Explorer Trust, Thames Rivers Restoration Trust, Thames Water,
Waterways Trust, Westminster Boating Race, Woodcraft Folk and Zoological
Society London.

Photo: Barry Lewis 40/41

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the bandstand four
saturday & sunday, 1.30–9.30pm
potters fields park

The Bandstand is a brand new feature at this year’s Blue Ribbon

Village with a full programme of live acts and some of the best
street bands on the circuit.

Saturday
1pm Fanfara din Vorona traditional Romanian rural
orchestra from northern Moldavia
2.15pm Mariachi Mexteca a truly authentic mariachi ensemble
3.30pm Hot Club of Belleville intoxicating swing rhythms,
sultry vintage songs and European gypsy polka
4.45pm Rotten Hill Gang tales of old and new London told
through Dickensian hiphop
6pm Brass Roots nine-piece New Orleans-style brass band
7.15pm La Paranza del Geco celebrate the great folk
traditions of Southern Italy
8.30pm Trans-Siberian March Band the Sex Pistols
of Balkan brass

Sunday
1pm Fanfara din Vorona see above
2pm Three Beards twisted sprawling Balkan gypsy
stomp. Votka!
3pm Marasong recitals from Sing for Water choirs
5pm Dunajska Kapalye Balkan and traditional gypsy
music, swing jazz, tango and klezmer
6.15pm The Raghu Dixit Project traditional Indian music
collides with global styles
7.30pm Swing Zazou vintage 30’s & 40’s big band
and gypsy swing with live-mixed beats
8.30pm James McArthur and the Head Gardeners
twisted psychedelic folk with a blues bent

Photo: Trans Siberian March Band by Jeremy Llewelwyn-Jones 42/43

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thames revival four
saturday & sunday, 12 noon–6pm
st katharine docks

Step back in time and marvel at a full display of historic vessels.

Admire hearty fishing smacks, rub gunwales with the finest racing
yachts and hear the tooting of a steam tug as it punctuates the silky
purrings of upriver motor launches. There are all sorts of things to
watch, from a Seagull Race to boating demonstrations. Ashore you
can find a variety of stalls demonstrating traditional maritime activities
such as boatbuilding, as well as paper boat races, deck games and
a vintage fashion show. Why not get into the spirit of things by
dressing to suit your favourite maritime era.

One boat in particular has made an epic voyage and should not be
missed. Artist Filip Jonkers’ replica tugboat De Furie is made entirely
from cardboard. He will set off in it from the Netherlands and brave
the North Sea to display the boat at St Katharine Docks.

www.thamesrevival.com

chopin//polska/the course
saturday & sunday, 11am–6pm, guided tours 11am–2pm
st katharine docks

STS Fryderyk Chopin, one of the world’s largest brigs and sail training
ships is hosting a programme of activities to commemorate the 200th
anniversary of the birth of Frederick Chopin.

Photo: Anya Belikova 44/45