Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: Queen to be entertained by 'party' barge in royal flotilla - It will be the boat to get the Royal party started when they take to the River Thames to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee.
The Queen will be entertained with pop, jazz and rock music performed aboard a “party boat” which will accompany the royal flotilla for the Jubilee Pageant.
Rhythm on the River, the final boat to join the line-up of 10 musical barges taking part in the pageant, will feature a 16-piece big band and three singers, performing a medley of hits from the Queen’s 60-year reign.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will sail down the Thames aboard the Royal Barge, a specially converted state-of-the-art cruise boat designed to evoke the opulence of royal maritime traditions
Music by The Beatles, including their 1965 song Drive My Car, will be performed by a trio of singers including the 1980s pop star Junior Giscombe, who will also sing his 1982 hit, Mama Used to Say.
Popular songs from the 1990s and the past decade will also feature in the repertoire performed for the Queen, who celebrated her 86th birthday yesterday, which was marked by a 41-Gun Royal Salute performed by the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery in Hyde Park.
Guy Barker, a leading jazz musician and composer who will be conducting the band, said: “We were asked to come up with something that would be soulful, funky and fun.
“We want to create a party atmosphere on the river, something that will get the royals tapping their feet. It will be a very different feel to the more classical theme of the other musical boats. I’d like our boat to make the Queen smile.”
Other musical barges participating in the pageant will feature an orchestra from the Academy of Ancient Music playing Handel’s Water Music, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines who will perform a selection of popular nautical tunes.
The pageant will take place on Sunday June 3, during a special four-day Bank Holiday weekend to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
The seven-mile flotilla will feature 1,000 boats, the biggest gathering on the Thames for more than 350 years.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will sail down the Thames aboard the Royal Barge, a specially converted state-of-the-art cruise boat designed to evoke the opulence of royal maritime traditions.
They will be joined on board by senior members of the Royal Family, including the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
Vessels taking part will include more than 40 of the “little ships” used in the evacuation of Dunkirk, dragon boats, houseboats, kayaks, pleasure cruisers and steamers.
Leading the flotilla will be a floating belfry, ringing a jubilee peal with eight bells named after senior members of the Royal Family.
Following the belfry will be Gloriana, an 88ft Viking-style gilded boat, rowed by 18 oarsmen, which is under construction and will be presented to the Queen as a gift for her Diamond Jubilee.
Flowers from the Queen’s gardens and her 16 Commonwealth realms will decorate the Royal Barge, with a royal colour scheme of red, gold and purple.
Floral and plant motifs on board will also reference the British Isles, featuring English roses, Irish shamrocks, thistles from Scotland and Welsh daffodils and leeks.
The floral designs for the Royal Barge are being created by Rachel de Thame, a presenter for the BBC’s Gardener’s World and Chelsea Flower Show programmes.
Ms de Thame is also using the Queen’s 1953 Coronation dress, designed by the royal couturier Norman Hartnell, which featured intricate embroidery representing floral emblems of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, as inspiration.
A traditional English “knot garden”, featuring a pattern echoing Elizabethan and Jacobean embroidery, will also be planted on board.
* Buckingham Palace has today launched a new website about the life of Queen Victoria, the only other monarch to have celebrated a Diamond Jubilee.
The Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Scrapbook website will contain documents from the Royal Archives, including paintings, photographs, letters and film clips, spanning from her childhood as a young princess to her Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1897, many of which will be made available to the public for the first time. ( telegraph.co.uk )
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The Queen will be entertained with pop, jazz and rock music performed aboard a “party boat” which will accompany the royal flotilla for the Jubilee Pageant.
Rhythm on the River, the final boat to join the line-up of 10 musical barges taking part in the pageant, will feature a 16-piece big band and three singers, performing a medley of hits from the Queen’s 60-year reign.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will sail down the Thames aboard the Royal Barge, a specially converted state-of-the-art cruise boat designed to evoke the opulence of royal maritime traditions
Music by The Beatles, including their 1965 song Drive My Car, will be performed by a trio of singers including the 1980s pop star Junior Giscombe, who will also sing his 1982 hit, Mama Used to Say.
Popular songs from the 1990s and the past decade will also feature in the repertoire performed for the Queen, who celebrated her 86th birthday yesterday, which was marked by a 41-Gun Royal Salute performed by the King’s Troop Royal Horse Artillery in Hyde Park.
Guy Barker, a leading jazz musician and composer who will be conducting the band, said: “We were asked to come up with something that would be soulful, funky and fun.
“We want to create a party atmosphere on the river, something that will get the royals tapping their feet. It will be a very different feel to the more classical theme of the other musical boats. I’d like our boat to make the Queen smile.”
Other musical barges participating in the pageant will feature an orchestra from the Academy of Ancient Music playing Handel’s Water Music, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and The Band of Her Majesty’s Royal Marines who will perform a selection of popular nautical tunes.
The pageant will take place on Sunday June 3, during a special four-day Bank Holiday weekend to mark the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
The seven-mile flotilla will feature 1,000 boats, the biggest gathering on the Thames for more than 350 years.
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh will sail down the Thames aboard the Royal Barge, a specially converted state-of-the-art cruise boat designed to evoke the opulence of royal maritime traditions.
They will be joined on board by senior members of the Royal Family, including the Prince of Wales, the Duchess of Cornwall, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
Vessels taking part will include more than 40 of the “little ships” used in the evacuation of Dunkirk, dragon boats, houseboats, kayaks, pleasure cruisers and steamers.
Leading the flotilla will be a floating belfry, ringing a jubilee peal with eight bells named after senior members of the Royal Family.
Following the belfry will be Gloriana, an 88ft Viking-style gilded boat, rowed by 18 oarsmen, which is under construction and will be presented to the Queen as a gift for her Diamond Jubilee.
Flowers from the Queen’s gardens and her 16 Commonwealth realms will decorate the Royal Barge, with a royal colour scheme of red, gold and purple.
Floral and plant motifs on board will also reference the British Isles, featuring English roses, Irish shamrocks, thistles from Scotland and Welsh daffodils and leeks.
The floral designs for the Royal Barge are being created by Rachel de Thame, a presenter for the BBC’s Gardener’s World and Chelsea Flower Show programmes.
Ms de Thame is also using the Queen’s 1953 Coronation dress, designed by the royal couturier Norman Hartnell, which featured intricate embroidery representing floral emblems of the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth, as inspiration.
A traditional English “knot garden”, featuring a pattern echoing Elizabethan and Jacobean embroidery, will also be planted on board.
* Buckingham Palace has today launched a new website about the life of Queen Victoria, the only other monarch to have celebrated a Diamond Jubilee.
The Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee Scrapbook website will contain documents from the Royal Archives, including paintings, photographs, letters and film clips, spanning from her childhood as a young princess to her Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 1897, many of which will be made available to the public for the first time. ( telegraph.co.uk )
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