City of London Festival

City of London Festival - 20 June - 10 July 2008
The Festival is an annual Arts Festival which is held over a three week period in June and July and includes all types of music including classical, jazz, opera and also world music.

For 2008, the festival's Trading Places theme will be bifocal. A cultural exchange with India on the one hand and Switzerland on the other.

EVENTS

Swing Thing - Friday 27 June

Time: 17:00
One of the liveliest bands on the London swing dance scene today, this five-piece knows how to keep the floor packed with their swing, blues and Latin sounds. A fun Festival evening of jumping jive and bop – Let the Good Times Roll! Free event
Nearest Tube: Liverpool Street Station

Lecture: This Imperious Company:
the East India Company and the Modern Multinational - Friday 27 June
Time: 18:00
Gresham College
Nick Robins lecturer
Free event
Nearest Tube: Chancery Lane

Da Motus! En vie...En ville - Friday 27 June

Time: 13:30

London Wall (corner of Moorgate)
Free Event

En vie...en ville is a silent geometrical ballet and fusion of art and architecture by guest Swiss dance company Da Motus!

Free event Supported by the Department of Culture canton Fribourg

Nearest Tube: Moorgate

Andy Panayi Quartet - Friday 27 June

Time: 12:00
Finsbury Circus Gardens
Free Event

Andy Panayi’s gift for musical arrangements and versatility with flute and saxophone make for a special concert in the Finsbury Circus Gardens, and the musicians of his quartet are among some of the finest jazz musicians on the UK music scene today.

Free event
Nearest Tube: Liverpool Street Station or Moorgate

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Note: The annual Free Winter Concert which started in 2004 will return in January 2008 with fifteen top-quality concerts until late March.

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