Festival marks coronation
Top musicians including Katherine Jenkins, Russell Watson, Katie Melua and The Feeling will perform at a festival in Buckingham Palace gardens this summer.
The gala concerts will celebrate the Queen’s coronation and will also feature students from the Sylvia Young Theatre School, opera singers from the Dame Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation, members of the National Youth Orchestra and Welsh choir Only Boys Aloud, who will perform on three consecutive nights in July.
The Fanfare Trumpeters from the Household Division will open the shows which will be staged in the grounds of the palace for an audience of 6,000 each evening. They will be broadcast on TV and radio.