Would you like to host a teddy bear during the 2024 Jesmond Community Festival? Pop into Jesmond Library between 6 February and 27 February and sign up on the TBT Host Sheet. We cannot promise that all hopeful hosts will be included but we will do our best! For further information please email Joan Aarvold on joanaarvold@icloud.com
The Northumberland Orchestral Society have announced details of their Spring concert, which will be an early highlight of the 2024 Jesmond Community Festival. The concert will be at the United Reformed Church on Saturday 4 May, beginning at 7:30pm.
The Society’s programme will include the Gaelic Suite by Amy Beach, and the Brahms double concerto, with. Soloist Kyra Humphreys, violin, and her son Seth cello, both Jesmond residents. Kyra is co-leader of the Royal Northern Sinfonia. Seth recently graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, and was principal cello in the Cambridge University Sinfonia and Opera Orchestra. Seth begins a Master’s degree at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama this September.
The North Jesmond, South Jesmond, and Dene and South Gosforth Ward Committees of the City Council have all approved grants towards the publicity for the 2024 Jesmond Community Festival. So all speed ahead with completing the Festival Programme!
All best wishes for 2024 and thanks to all those who worked so hard to make our 2023 Jesmond Community Festival such a success.
As you probably know, our 2024 Festival will be from Saturday 4 May to Sunday 2 June. Mark it in your 2024 diary!
We are beginning to get details of the first few events being planned for the 2024 Jesmond Community Festival. Next year’s Tour de Jesmond is likely to take place on Sunday 5 May. For more information contact tony.waterston@ncl.ac.uk . Jesmond Choral Group are to give a concert performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s “Patience”, while the North East Recorder Orchestra and the Northumberland Orchestral Society will also be back. If you have ideas for a festival event next year, email info@jesmondfestival.org.uk .
The 2024 Jesmond Calendar is now available in Jesmond Library, price £5.
All the photographs in the calendar were entries in the photographic competition which formed part of the 2023 Jesmond Community Festival