NORTHUMBRIANA EVENTS PAGE
(All details from
Morpeth Chantry TIC 01670 623455 or ring
01670 513308, or see elsewhere on website)
Festival of Northumberland’s traditional
music, dance, craft, dialect and heritage
Event: 50th Morpeth Northumbrian
Gathering
Date: 21-23 April
Description: Annual festival of
Northumberland’s traditional music, craft,
dialect, dance and heritage, with over 60
indoor and outdoor events, many free
Venue: Morpeth town centre venues
Time: 9.30 am till late each day
Details: Box office Chantry TIC 01670
623455; queries 01670 513308
Event: Fred Reed Neet Supper dialect event
Date: Saturday 6th May
Description: Northumberland’s answer to
Burns Night, celebrating the pitman poet
Fred Reed of Ashington. Traditional pie and
peas supper and members of the Northumbrian
Language Society with poems, smallpipes and
toasts to the Stotty
Venue: Morpeth Masonic Lodge
Time: 8 pm
Details: 01670 513308
Event: Celebrating Morpeth’s Past - Local
History Exhibition
Date: Sat 10th and Sun 11th June
Description: Exhibition marking special
anniversaries - 70 years of Morpeth
Antiquarian Society, 50 years of the Morpeth
Northumbrian Gathering plus the centenary of
events in the lives of local people during
WWI.
Venue: Morpeth Town Hall
Time: 9.30 am
Free entry; teas on sale
Details: 01670 513308
Event: Roland Bibby Memorial Lectures
Date: Sat 14th October
Description: Annual dialect lecture - Jonnie
Robinson of the British Library on “Sounds
Familiar? NE Voices in the British Library
Sound Archive”, followed by a special second
lecture by Ian Wilson on “The Forgotten
Years”, the wartime experiences in Burma of
Roland Bibby, founding chairman of the
Northumbrian Language Society, in this
centenary year of his birth.
Venue: Morpeth Town Hall
Time: 1.30 for 2 pm; second lecture at 3.30
pm
Free entry and refreshments
Details: 01670 513308 |
