Listen to ‘the UK’s premiere wartime act’, watch a dog show, take a swing dance class, knock back an alcoholic slushie and much more next Friday (June 3) as the free Bankside Open Spaces Festival returns for a jubilee edition.
Charity Bankside Open Spaces Trust is putting on the music, dance and family activity event across three main areas around Union Street in Borough – Flat Iron Square, Red Cross Garden and Marlborough Sports Garden.
Highlights include 2018 Britain’s Got Talent finalists D-Day Darlings, performing wartime singalongs, Swing Patrol, who will be putting on dance classes, a dog show judged by BBC Radio London’s dog expert Anna Webb, and dance company Taboo.
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Local band Soft Shell Crabs will also be performing a song saying goodbye to two former Lib Dem councillors for the Borough and Bankside ward, Adele Morris and David Noakes.
The day will begin with a service of remembrance at Crossbones Graveyard, led by Father Christopher of the Church of the Most Precious Blood, for the victims of the London Bridge terror attack, which took place five years ago.
Flat Iron Square will host the main stage. Red Cross Garden will be a more relaxed environment with arts and crafts, as well as the dog show, and live acoustic music. Marlborough Sports Garden will also have live music and dance acts, as well as sports and dance workshops.
In between, Union Street and Redcross Way will be full of stalls with street food and drink, as well as two other music stages.
The full line-up:
Main Stage (Flat Iron Square)
12.15pm The D-Day Darlings
1pm Soft Shell Crabs
1.50pm and 2.50pm Swing Patrol
2.20pm Golden Spike
15.30pm Lunch Special
4.15pm One voice, One Cello & A Mad Belgian
5pm Lovell
6pm Hallelujah Trails
7pm Cosimo Matassa Project
8pm Brothers Ignatius
Red Cross Garden
12pm Laine Hines
1pm James McArthur
2pm Rowan Flack
3pm Ceri James
4pm River Wild
5pm Ragtop Down
6pm Rt. Rev. Swifty LeZarre
7pm Rob Corcoran
Marlborough Sports Garden
UDM Samba
Superarts
Taboo Dance
Rock Choir
Salsateca
Nunhead Choir
Dragon Cafe Singers
Tango Integral
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