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Hope Street Feast
ON Sunday, 20
September 2009, the 4th Annual Hope Street Feast was held in
Liverpool’s Hope Street. The road was closed to traffic during the
Festival along with some surrounding streets. There were market
stalls; many were food stalls with hot and cold foods of bewildering
varieties, national and international. Street artists roamed the
area entertaining children and adults of all ages; some were in very
colourful clothing doing some amazing or humorous activities. The
lovely old fashioned fairground rides were quite popular with the
very young. Even the Farmers’ Market Stalls were doing a roaring
trade.
The Everyman and
Playhouse Theatres had a quiz in the bar and there were tours of the
theatre every half-hour, which, incidentally, were over well
subscribed, and there was story telling too. The famous Everyman
Bistro, a gastronomic gem in Liverpool, was providing food and
musical entertainment all day. The Philharmonic Hall had an open-day
and there were free concerts with the famous orchestra playing along
with choirs, and short talks by the conductor. The Unity Theatre had
a jumble sale with a treasure trove of craft activities. In the Hope
Street Hotel, the London Carriage Works had afternoon teas available
with music in the downstairs lounge. In the side streets, off Hope
Street, were stages upon which various bands performed throughout
the day.
There were even Owls
in the Anglican Cathedral supporting the BBC’s Wildlife Photographer
of the Year’s Exhibition.
The Blackburne Place stage, at 1.30pm, had the revolutionary
website, Projec 52, songwriter singer, Shane Beales, performing. On
the Myrtle Street stage, at around 2pm, a band, called Xanda and The
Pirates were playing some inspiring and thought provoking music with
vocals, one of which was Purple Rain, which really pulled the crowd
in. There was some terrific guitar playing. At around 3.30pm, on the
Hardman Street stage, just after the Hope Street Ceili, one found a
4 piece group, The Trestles playing some fab music.
Once again this Hope Street Feast was excellent. The planning was
good in the way everything was set out and organised. People
obviously enjoyed it, for there were smiling faces everywhere and
some stalls even sold out before time was called Sadly, time to
close down came, so the stall holders packed everything away to let
the traffic in and the local residents have their roads back. Well
done everybody and thank you. Surely there will be another one, it
was so good!
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here to see more photographs
taken at this event.
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