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Programme of St Albans Folk  Festival  June 22-24
Friday June 22
8.00pm Maltings Arts Theatre AL1 3HL Festival concert with Chris Wood plus local hammer dulcimer player, Jan Strapp and New Roots 2007 finalists Livewires £10.00 / £8.00 concessions. 01727 844222
7.45pm Marlborough Road Methodist Church Hall Friday Folk Social Dance Club.  £2.00 on door
Saturday June 23
9.45am -5.00pm City Centre Day of Dance with local dance team and their invited guests from Latvia.
9.45-10.25am Massed display in Verulamium Park to coincide with start of St Albans Day procession ot the Abbey
11.00-12.30pm Dancing outside the Clock Tower and the Alban Arena and in Christoper Place and the Maltings shopping precincts.
1.45-3.45pm Dancing outside the west front of the Abbey and the Clock Tower and in the Maltings and Christopher Place shopping precincts.
4.00pm Dancing at the Fighting Cocks.
Free
12.00 am-2.00pm White Lion, Sopwell Lane, AL1 1RN Singaround Free
8.00am-11.30 pm Frances Bacon School, Drakes Drive, AL1 5AR Festival ceilidh with Asha. No previous experience needed with caller Jackie Allen on hand to explain the dances.  £8.00 / £6.00 concessions. 01727 833028
Sunday June 24
11.00am-5.00pm Age Concern Centre, Hall Place, St Peter's Street, AL1 3HF Dance workshops with Kerry Fletcher
11.00-1.00pm Fandango
2.00-5.00pm European dances
.£10.00 all day, £5.00 afternoon only. Pay on door
12 noon The Boot, Market Place, AL3 5DG Traditional music session. Free
6.00 pm Trestle Arts Base, Russet Drive, St Albans AL4 0JQ  Taster harp workshop with harpist Steph West. £5.00
01727 850950
8.00 pm Trestle Arts Base, Russet Drive, St Albans AL4 0JQ  Concert featuring local performers with a wider reputation, singer songwriter George Papavgeris, harmony duo Lynne Heraud and Pat Turner, instrumental and vocal duo Life and Times, instrumental duo Clive Batkin and Joel McDermott and harpist Steph West £7.00/ £5.00 concessions.
01727 850950