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Eastbourne Bandstand Take Christmas Concert Break For 2021

Eastbourne Bandstand take a Christmas concert break for 2021

There will be no concert on Eastbourne Beach this year, due to Covid. There has been an announcement over on the Eastbourne Bandstand FB page here.

” Eastbourne Bandstand’s Christmas concerts will take a break this year due to the continuing pandemic.

The free concerts regularly attract more than 4,000 people into the Bandstand over three dates, in what are un-ticketed and unseated events.
Due to the ongoing pandemic, and in light of the emerging variant Omicron, the usual concerts will not take place this year on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year’s Day, while it is impossible to restrict audience numbers to safe limits within the venue.
A Christmas Day performance by Eastbourne Silver Band will however still go ahead on the Wish Tower Slopes, to keep the tradition alive, but enable audience distancing.
Eastbourne Borough Council Lead Cabinet Member for Tourism and Culture, Cllr Margaret Bannister said “The Bandstand has always been a star attraction at Christmas and as an un-ticketed event, it attracts huge numbers of celebratory crowds in the enclosure of the Bandstand, sometimes even generating the occasional Conga.

We have been monitoring the situation over recent weeks with growing concern, and following the emergence of the new variant and the latest guidance, we have come to the conclusion that we just do not feel it is safe to allow large crowds to gather within the Bandstand enclosure without a seating plan or ticketing system in place. Neither of which are feasible due to the weather at this time of year. “

To read the full statement and to find out what will be happening on Christmas Day click here.

Image via the Eastbourne Bandstand FB page here.

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