City of London Festival 2013

Sunday 23rd June to Friday 26th July 2013
St Pauls Cathedral, EC4 & The Mansion House, City of London, Greater London, EC4M 8AD, England MAP
from free to £50

Last updated: Thu 13th Jun 2013

The 2013 will be held from Sunday 23rd June until Friday 26th July, and will feature a wide-ranging and eclectic programme which includes music, drama and poetry, installations and exhibitions of visual arts, film screenings, architecture, walks and talks.

Line-up

There will be hundreds of acts and events announced. The first events confirmed for 2013 are a Brodsky Quartet world première of 'Trees, Walls and Cities', Damien O'Kane, Cantabile - The London Quartet, City of London Sinfonia with Dan Bates (oboe), Manus Noble, Leslie Howard, Guildhall Jazz Singers and Band, City of London Sinfonia with Fiona Bonds (viola), Judith Hall & Craig Ogden, Christine Tobin, Joseph Tong & Waka Hasegawa, City of London Sinfonia with Stephen Stirling (horn) and Ronan Busfield (tenor), Britten's War Requiem with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and How Like An Angel.

Theme

This year the festival's will have three main interlocking themes conflict and resolution, city walls, and trees.

Tickets

Ticket prices vary depending upon event. Many events are free. To buy tickets, click here .

More info

For three weeks each midsummer, the Festival animates the unique buildings and outdoor spaces of the City with an extensive artistic programme ranging across many kinds of music, visual arts, film, walks and talks: more than 50 ticketed performances and a further 100 free events outdoors. In recent years its international character has been reinforced.

The Festival also delivers a year-round programme of arts projects in schools and community groups in the City of London and its surrounding boroughs. The creative energies of the education programme's participants generate a unique element of the Festival season: projects culminate in public performances and exhibitions during the Festival each summer..br />
Festival performances range from large-scale orchestral concerts in St Paul's Cathedral to intimate chamber recitals in the City's livery halls, and from innovative aerial acrobatics to jazz bands in the Guildhall Yard. The Festival promotes new and emerging artists as well as renowned international performers.

There will also be walks, talks and debates that compliment this year's Festival themes a new young artists' series of eight concerts, a mobile orchard and a Family Day on Hampstead Heath entitled Irish Roots Â a celebration of Northern Irish culture and heritage. Visitors are invited to take part in Gaelic Games, arts activities inspired by the Northern Irish born C S Lewis, or in a lively reel around Parliament Hill - accompanied by folk musicians including Beoga.

Accommodation

This event does not have camping but there are a number of hotels, hostels and guest houses in the area.

More information will be here when available.