Patriotic
Prestonians are being urged to celebrate England’s patron saint as much as they
might celebrate Ireland’s.
As part of
a massive St George’s Day Festival, bosses at the Guild Hall are welcoming the
move to commemorate the date on April 23, with a line-up of Mod and Northern
Soul favourites to celebrate with a great night out, in the same way many do
for St. Patrick’s Day.
Susan
Burns, of Guild Promotions, said: “We were very keen to include the Northern
Soul element to our program of events here at the Guild Hall, and what better
day to introduce this than on St Georges Day!
“We are
wanting to make more of a weekend of entertainment next year, but thought we
couldn’t let this year go without marking the occasion.
“We have
close ties with a few avid fans of this genre of music and they have given us
the thumbs-up for the chosen line up, so we are happy that this St Georges Day
Festival will be authentic to the style of music we have decided to go with.
Susan
added: “We want to put time and effort into growing this event and hopefully in
a couple of years it will be a firm favourite date in the Northern Soul / Mod
calendar.”
During the
one-day festival, Mod revival band Secret Affair will headline at Preston Guild
Hall. The line-up will also include favourites The Lambrettas.
Ian Page,
lead singer with Secret Affair, said it should be important to celebrate the
dragon-slaying George. He said: “Like many English people, I am always
surprised that the other home nations seem to embrace celebrating their patron
saints, while we almost seem embarrassed to do so because it might be seen to
have certain connotations. But it should be celebrated and we’re certainly
going to give it a good show.”
Doors will
open at 7pm with the show starting at 7.30pm.
Tickets
are on sale now. For more information see the Guild Promotions Facebook page or
follow @guildpromotions on Twitter.
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