The Brandling Village Guided Walk on Wednesday 8 May is now FULLY BOOKED. There are still other options for the Brandling walk on 23 May and 2 June, but if you are interested email juliemjacques@btinternet.com as soon as possible, before those options fill up as well!
Or you could go for the High West Jesmond walk on 29 May.
The opening concert in this year’s Jesmond Community Festival will be the Northumberland Orchestral Society’s Spring Orchestral Concert, featuring solo violinist Kyra Humphreys and her son Seth Collin (cello). The programme will comprise the Brahms Double Concert in A minor, for violin and cello, the Gaelic Symphony by Amy Beach and Hamish MacCunn’s Land of the Mountain and the Flood. Tickets will be £12, Students £6, and Under 18’s and unwaged free. The venue is Jesmond United Reformed Church in Burdon Terrace NE2 3AE. Pay at the door, including by contactless credit card payment. The orchestra will be conducted by Alastair Lord, and led by Amy Gleeson. Not to be missed!
Unusual goings on in St George’s Church ……
Public Lecture for Jesmond Festival – The renowned religious historian and former President of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Professor Eamon Duffy FSA FBA KSG will visit the Church of the Holy Name in North Jesmond Avenue, on Saturday 4 May to give his lecture Celebrity Priest: Robert Hugh Monsignor Benson and the End of the World. Professor Duffy will discuss Fr Benson’s life and work, and that of his father, who was Archbishop of Canterbury. One of Fr Benson’s brothers wrote “Land of Hope and Glory”, while the other wrote the Mapp and Lucia novels. All are welcome. when doors open at 11:00 am, for this non-ticketed event. 11:00 am for 11:30 am start, ends 12:30 pm. Cold refreshments are available at the back of church after the lecture and you are very welcome to join us.
Have you left it too late to enter this year’s Tour de France? Try the Tour de Jesmond instead! And you won’t have to do as much training…. It’s on Sunday 4 May. Meet at the bandstand in Exhibition Park at 1:45pm.