A Celebration of Armistice Day

An Armistice Day evening of wartime music, spoken word and a rare 1940s colour film, ending with an Act of Remembrance at the Victoria Wood Theatre.

The evening marks Armistice Day with music from the First and Second World Wars performed by Burneside Brass, strings and ensemble musicians, including Nimrod, The 1914 March, Wiegala, music from The 49th Parallel and wartime songs. It also features a screening of a rare 40-minute colour film of wartime Britain made in 1940–41 by American filmmakers Fred Vose and Joseph Sailor, now held in the RAF Museum's film archive. The programme culminates in an Act of Remembrance with the Exhortation, a two-minute silence, Reveille, the Kohima Epitaph and Benedictus, closing with the Dambusters March.