Day One - Friday May 9
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Beating Retreat
- 6.30pm on the Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds
- Free event
- Ends 7.00pm
To open the Festival this year the Queen's Colour Squadron and the band of the RAF Regiment will be entertaining the crowds on Angel Hill with the traditional Beating Retreat Ceremony.
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A Walk on the Wild Side
- 6.30pm at Ickworth House, Horringer
- £38 (includes admission to the park)
- Booking essential
- Ends 10.00pm
Enjoy an evening of discovery as you learn about and explore Ickworth's wildlife and ancient trees with the National Trust's Nature Conservation Adviser, Dr Stuart Warrington. Followed by a scrumptious two-course supper.
Weapons of Sound
- 7.00pm in the Abbey Gardens, Bury St Edmunds
- Free Event
- Ends 8.00pm
- www.hotjaminternational.co.uk
The junkiest funkiest band around! Using anything they can find to turn into instruments, Weapons of Sound is the ultimate in recycling producing some seriously funky grooves. Joining the band on stage will be almost 200 school children playing some of their own junk funk.
Romeo & Juliet
- 7.30pm at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds
- Tickets between £7 and £22.50
Northern Broadsides in partnership with the New Vic Theatre
Directed by Barrie Rutter
A chance meeting brings together two youngsters from rival families. Determined to pursue their forbidden love they risk all to be together and the fall victim to a cruel destiny, paying the ultimate price for their devotion.
Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is a heart-rending love story of tragic proportions, filled with passion, tenderness and bitter recriminations. Multi-award winning company, Northern Broadsides, bring their inimitable warmth, charisma and energy to this timeless romantic tragedy, and demonstrate once more why they are one of the best loved champions of Shakespeare's work in the UK.
Booking for this event opens on Monday 10 March (Theatre Royal priority bookers). General booking opens on Monday 17 March.
There will be further performances on Saturday 10 May at 2pm and 7.30pm.
Jazz at the Angel
- 7.30pm in the Angel Hotel Vaults, Bury St Edmunds
- Telephone 01284 753926
- Entry by table reservation for dinner
- www.theangel.co.uk
Dinner and jazz in the Angel Hotel Vaults.
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