Main Performers | Louise Dearman, Colin Thackery, Leona Lewis, Lee Mead - vocals, Jeff Goldblum - piano, James Blunt - vocal, piano
Lieutenant General James Bashall, Garrison Sergeant Major Andrew Stokes, Captain Robert Anders (RFA Mounts Bay), Cel Spellman, Blake Kubena, Jessica Aislewood, Daniel May, Rabbi Reuben Livingstone, Flight Lieutenant Mandeep Kaur, Reverend Brent Van Der Linde, Right Reverend James Newcome - speakers |
Secondary Performers | 18 Dancers (incld. Robin Windsor, Gordana Grandosek Whiddon, Giulia Dotta, Kai Widd, ) |
Orchestra or Band | Tri-Services Band, Band of HM Royal Marines, Central Band of Royal Air Force (RAF), The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, Orchestra |
Choirs | Royal Hospital Chelsea Choir, St Anne's Catholic High School for Girls Gospel Choir The Bach Choir |
Conductors | Lieutenant Colonel Darren Wolfendale (Senior Director of Music of the Household Division) |
Set List | Welcome (Huw Edwards), 'Festival Fanfare', Introduction to the Festival (Huw Edwards), Entrance of the Royal British Legion Branch Standards - 'The Royal British Legion March', Video - 'Remember Together', Tri-Service Marching Display and Royal British Legion Branch Standards Procession to Stage - 'The Impossible Dream' (Louise Dearman, Tri-Service Band), Video - 'Hurricane Relief - RFA Mounts Bay Bahamas', Entrance of RFA Mounts Bay Contingent and Torch Bearer - 'Sea Songs', Vaughan Williams (Band of the Royal Marines), Citation (Captain Robert Anders, RFA Mounts Bay), Marching Display - 'Vanguard', 'Drum Static', 'Norwegian Pirate' (Band of HM Royal Marines), Entrance of the Chelsea Pensioners - 'The Old Brigade' (Colin Thackery, Royal Hospital Chelsea Choir, Orchestra, Audience clapping), Video - 'Second World War Anniversaries 1944 - Monte Cassino Veterans James Know and Otton Hulacki', 'Hejnal Mariacki', trad. Polish (Corporal Marcin Malarz), Recitation - 'Red Poppies at Monte Cassino' (Daniel Mays), Video Newsreel - Monte Cassino Falls, Rome Liberated, Invasion of France, Eisenhower speech, Video - D-Day Vertan Eddie Gains, Recitation - Testimony of Kenneth Oakley, Royal Navy (Cel Spellman) - 'Highland Laddie' (Cel Spellman Piper), Video Newsreel - Beginning of Victory in Europe, Far East fighting against Japanese, Video - Kohima Veteran Robin Rowland, Parade of Second World War '1944' Veterans - 'I Vow To Thee My Country' (44 Veterans and serving personnel, cellist, Orchestra, Massed Bands, Bach Choir), Video - Remembrance, 'Let's Face the Music and Dance', I Berlin (Jeff Goldblum and The Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, Dancers), Video - GCHQ 100 - Bletchley Veteran Ruth Bourne and Fiona from today's GCHQ), Berline Blockade (Central Band of the Royal Air Force), Recitation - Testimony of The Candy Bomber (Blake Kubena) and Testimony of Berlin Girl During Blockade (Jessica Aislewood), Procession (Colonel Gail Halvorsen (The Candy Bomber), Berliner Vera Mitschrich (Berlin Blockade child), Central Band of the Royal Air Force, Speech (Colonel Gail Halvorsen), March (The Central Band of the RAF), Video - The Doherty Family Jeff and Joyce Doherty and their son Fin, Entrance of Bereaved Families - 'Requiem Aeternam' (Bach Choir, Orchestra), 'Monsters' (James Blunt, Bach Choir), Video - Commonwealth, World War Two Veteran Joseph Hammond, Sergeant Jonetani Matia Lawaci, Commander Mitch De Savoye, Entrance of Commonwealth Flags and Laying of Drums - 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' (Leona Lewis, Orchestra), Muster (The Royal Navy, The Army, The RAF, The Merchant Navy, Civilian Services, Central Band of the RAF), Video - Book Bearer - Chaplains Rabbi Reuben Livingstone, Flight Lieutenant Mandeep Kaur, Reverend Brent Van Der Linde, Entrance of Chaplains and Book of Rememebrance - 'Praise, My Soul, The King of Heaven' (Audience, Organ, Orchestra, Bach Choir), The Bidding Prayer and the Lord's Prayer (Right Reverend James Newcome, St Anne's Catholic High School for Girls Gospel Choir), Reading (Rabbi Reuben Livingstone, Flight Lieutenant Mandeep Kaur, Reverend Brent Van Der Linde, St Anne's Catholic High School for Girls Choir), 'Morning Has Broken' (Lee Mead, St Anne's Catholic High School for Girls Gospel Choir), The Act of Remembrance, Prayer (National Chaplain to the Royal British Legion), The Exhortation - 'They Shall Grow Not Old' (Lieutenant General James Bashall), 'The Last Post' (Trumpeter), Poppy Drop, 'Revielle' (State Trumpeters), The Dedication - 'When You Go Home' (Lieutenant General James Bashall), 'Eternal Father Strong to Save', 'Sunset' (St Anne's Catholic High School for Girls Choir), Blessing (Bishop), 'God Save the Queen' (The National Anthem), 'Pomp and Circumstance', E Elgar (Orchestra, The Bach Choir) |
Related Archival Material | Programme (RAHE/1/2019/135A) |