BOOK PLYMOUTH HOTELS

Join in

Send page to a friend

7217 views since 17th June 2008

Events in Devon

Plymouth Summer Festival

An event in August in Devon
Plymouth
Event begins: 30th November -0001
Plymouth Summer Festival ends on 30th November -0001
Visit website

write a review | more events

for Plymouth Summer Festival as your favourite British event.

Headlined by superstar rock n‚ roller Rod Stewart at Home Park, Plymouth Summer Festival returns for its third year and brings together under one banner the vast range of maritime, music, arts and street events taking place in Plymouth between May and September.

Highlights this year will include the Navy Days (September 5 and 6) when Devonport Naval Base will throw open its gates to an estimated 30,000 visitors, the British Fireworks Championships (August 11-12), the Sutton Harbour Festival (July 25 - August 4) and city centre favourite, Britain's biggest free entry farmers market Plymouth Flavour Fest (August 14-16).

There's a packed programme at the Plymouth Theatre Royal and the Plymouth Pavilions including Quadrophenia, the hit musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and comedian Jimmy Carr.

This year the Summer Festival programme also includes great scheduling on the BBC Big Screen in Armada Way. Programmes to be screened live include the British Grand Prix on 21 June, Wimbledon from 22 June - 5 July, Glastonbury in June and Last Night of the Proms on 12 September to name just a few.

Plymouth is also one of just 20 UK cites to team up with the Royal Opera House, in Covent Garden, and the BP Summer Big Screens season to off the chance to enjoy the unique atmosphere of open air live screenings in the Piazza, live from the Royal Opera House, of The Royal Ballet's production of Ondine (Wednesday June 3) and fantastic new productions of two classic operas performed by The Royal Opera - La traviata (Tuesday June 30) and The Barber of Seville (Wednesday July 15).

If you have been to this event in the past please review it for us here

More Events in Devon in September

CAMRA Newton Abbot/South Devon Beer Festival, St John Ambulance Hall, Newton Abbot

Town Criers' Championship, Courtenay Street, Newton Abbot

Totnes Festival of Chinese Arts, Civic Square, Totnes

Devon Guild Summer craft exhibition, Devon Guild of Craftsmen, Bovey Tracey

September Transport Heritage Gala, South Devon Railway, Buckfastleigh

North Devon Folk Festival, Ilfracombe

Totnes Festival, Totnes

Kingsbridge Agricultural Show, Borough Farm, Kingsbridge

Totnes Good Food Sunday Market, Totnes

Exmoor Bike Marathon, Exmoor

Heritage Open Days

Colyford Goose Fayre, Springfield, Colyford

Barnstaple Old Fair, Barnstaple

Widecombe Fair, Fair Field, Widecombe

Lobster and Crab Feast, Clovelly harbour, Clovelly

Brit Quote:
It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind. - T S Eliot
More Quotes

On this day:
Battle of Blore Heath - 1459, Chaplin Returns to England - 1952, 1st British woman News reader - 1955, BBC launches the world's first Ceefax teletext service. - 1974, Steve Redgrave wins 5th Olympic Gold Medal - 2000
More dates from British history

click here to view all the British counties

County Pages