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Wells Jubilee Celebrations

11am Wells Market Place - Opening Ceremony with Wells Town Crier Len Sweales, the Mayor & Mayoress of Wells Cllr Stewart Cursley & June Cursley, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset Annie Maw, and Wells Rotary President Wendy Ray

11am Wells Recreation Ground - Fancy Dress entrants gather register here

11.30am Celebration Procession - Led by British Army Tidworth Marching Band, from Recreation Ground, through the Bishop’s Eye, Market Place and Cathedral Green

12.15pm Cathedral Green - Judging Fancy Dress by Lord Lieutenant Annie Maw

12 - 5.15pm Wells Bandstand - BYO Picnic Concerts and Acoustic Showcase

  • 12pm Cam Valley Morris Men

  • 12.30pm Shepton Mallet Big Band

  • 1.30pm Dexterity Trio led by Tom Stringer trumpeter Wells Cathedral School

  • 2.30pm Hetta Falzon Young Songwriter of the Year, winner of Glastonbury Festivals’ Pilton Stage 2022

  • 3.30pm The Portraits Anglo-Irish song-writing and performing duo whose songs tell stories of the world and compassion forgotten

  • 4.30pm Acoustic Showcase with Dick Stephens A chance for local performers to show off their skills

12.30 - 5.30pm Cathedral Green - Performance Zone with dance, drama and choirs & Judge Jeffries Pageant

  • 12.30 pm Cam Valley Morris Men

  • 1pm Dance Fusion Wells - Our younger dancers will take to the stage and showcase their work

  • 1.30pm Somerset Dance Umbrella Dance display by students from Wells Ballet School and Somerset Dance Umbrella

  • 2pm Wells Academy of Theatrical Arts Students 4-16 present a medley of Musical Theatre Numbers

  • 2.30pm Wells Theatre Festival - cast of upcoming production of Twelth Night will perform a new song composed by Peter Kingston - inspired by Duke Orsino’s speech If Music be the Food of Love

  • 3.00pm Warminster Military Wives Choir

  • 3.30pm Wells Good Afternoon Choir

  • 4.00pm Wookey, Street and Doulting Choirs

  • 4.30pm Priddy Singers

  • 5.00pm Corps of Drums Formation

  • 5.20pm En-masse choral rendition of Jerusalem with Croscombe Orchestra

  • 6pm Songs of Praise: God Save the Queen in the Cathedral

And elsewhere

The Bishop’s Barn & Bowling Green - free activities and workshops

10-4pm Fun Kitchen Workshops - book here

11 -4pm Community Art Workshop Come and Make a Commemorative Felt Banner

1.30 - 2pm Morris Dancing

2 - 3 pm Tor Theatre Performance & Workshop

Wells Cathedral

2 - 4pm Cream Tea in the Nave - book here in the Transepts

28th May - 13th June The Queen & I Photography Exhibition by Jason Bryant in the South Cloister for more information here

Wells Recreation Ground

12-1.30pm Circus Skills Workshop

2 - 3.30 pm Circus Skills Workshop

Sports Activities

Jubilee Races

Children’s Rides and Slides

The Bishop’s Palace

Talks about The Bishop’s Cope in relation to the Queen’s Coronation

Meet the Daleks and Cybermen in the Undercroft

Wells & Mendip Museum

The Changing Shops of Wells over the last 70 years - photographic exhibition

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