An enormous range of events from this year’s biggest City of London Festival are now available to book online – https://www.musicinoffices.com/cityfestival!
To help you pick among the many treasures, check out the opening concert on 10 October with Julian Joseph at Mansion House with his world class jazz band, and the special Milton Court concert on 16 October with the Eklectric Duo (sic) from Genoa performing an exciting programme from Paganini to Daft Punk.
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We were delighted to celebrate our very first City of London “Pepys Day”.
225 people participated in a series of wonderful walks led by City of London Guides, leading from the Monument at 10:00 and ending at Mansion House at noon, whereupon we had a glass of champagne in celebration, and many decamped to The Hydrant for lunch.
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Regular readers know that I try to avoid having more than one post a day, but this was special, the very first Lord Mayor of London ringing the 5 minute bell at Lords Cricket Ground to reopen England versus Sri Lanka. Chris Hayward in shot, but masterminded so kindly by Mark Berman.
A highlight of the mayoral year arrived at Mansion House today, the 695th Lord Mayor’s Whisky (or whiskey to us Irish). With the immense help and support of the magnificent Braeburn Whisky (Scottish) team, we have a very very limited edition for charity fundraising purposes.
And doesn’t it look spectacular:
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I was delighted to provide a foreword for this report by London Higher reflecting much of my thinking too. Full report here.
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