Jesmond Choral Group and friends will be performing the Faure Requiem in Jesmond United Reformed Church on Tuesday 6 May, conducted by Jonathan Scott. This free event will commence at 7:30 pm, but get there a few minutes early to get a good seat. The concert will also include Cantique de Jean Racine, and more. For more information about future performances, or how you could join the group, email diane.carter@blueyonder.co.uk .
The Tyneside Society of Model and Experimental Engineers welcomed festival visitors to their track, situated behind the Wylam Brewery. For further information about TSMEE see www.tsmee.co.uk .
The 2025 Jesmond Community Festival is underway, with events at Holy Trinity Church, Newcastle Cricket Club and St George’s Church on Saturday 3 May. The Sheriff and Deputy Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Cllr Henry Gallagher, met with our very own Town Crier, Marjorie Dodds, the Vicar of St George’s. Rev Debbie Loughran, and the Chair of Jesmond Community Forum, Dave Cross, to launch both the Festival and the St George’s Big Friendly Gathering to celebrate VE Day. Other highlights of the afternoon included a march past by Air Cadets, the Darling Dollies singing wartime songs, and two local veterans remembering school-time during the second world war.
The Eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed that several new events have been added to the festival, since the programme was printed in February. Look on this website, on 9 May for “Music in the Library”, on 11 May for the SPYE Spring Concert, and on 24 May for the library’s Big Spring Book Sale!
St George’s Church will be linking the launch of this year’s Jesmond Community Festival on 3 May with a Big Friendly Gathering to mark 80 years since Victory in Europe (VE Day). There will be a fabulous range of entertainment for all the family, from the memories of World War Veterans and 1940’s songs with the Darling Dollies to Face Painting and Children’s activities, plus Cream Teas, Ice Cream and Pimm’s.
Plus find out more about this year’s Teddy Bear Trail and other festival events at the community stall.
Following the ringing of the Church Bells from 1:30 pm the big event starts at 2:00 pm and will be finished by 5:00 pm.