Midsummer Carnival and Street Party

Sunday 17th June from 12 to 7pm

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Bring the children and enjoy an afternoon of carnival, costume, colour and music!

The Scottish Carnival Arts Consortium brings you Midsummer Carnival 2001 with a theme of creation!

At 3pm from the Botanic Gardens, the Carnival will make its colourful way down Byres Rd, into Dumbarton Rd, and up Mansfield St into the Mansfield Park football pitch. Here Best Costumes will be judged by surprise local celebrities!

At 4.30pm the Carnival will set off again from Mansfield Park to join the Street Party in Byres Rd.

From 12-7pm all traffic will be suspended
- from Gt Western Rd to Highburgh Rd/ University Ave
- from Church St down to Dumbarton Rd.

All parking will be suspended in both zones from late Saturday evening onwards.

To take part in the Scottish Carnival Arts Consortium workshops, phone 334 8374.

Street Party - Bands

Antipasti Stage

2pm Lemonescent

Scotland's newest girl band

2.30pm Duncan McCallum & Dougie Harrison

Hot jazz & cool blues

3.30pm Lemonescent

Scotland's newest girl band

4pm The "Duke" Bliss Hawaiian Trio

Western Swing, bluegrass, Hawaiian ballads & jazz, on the steel guitar, ukelele, and various other instruments......

4.40pm The Claymores Cheerleaders

4.45pm Delta House

Passionate heartfelt acoustic delta blues to send a shiver down your spine

5.30pm Dave Wilson & the Uptown Shufflers

Dixieland jazz at its best

6.15pm Samba Ya Bamba

Exuberant samba band with vibrant Brazilian percussion

Ruthven Street Stage

2pm Kelpie

Shetland-style fiddle mixed with funky bass, acoustic guitar & powerful vocals

2.30pm The Claymore Cheerleaders

2.35pm Black Star Steel Band

3.15pm Clan Wallace - Braveheart Crew

Rhythms, bagpipes. traditional drums & great Scottish warpipes

4pm The Claymores Cheerleaders

4.05pm Last Tram Tae Auchenshuggle

They've been shuggling audiences from Barrhead to Bahrain & Partick to Paris with their contagious mix of Scottish dance with healthy smatterings of rock & cajun, You know when you've been shuggled!

5.15pm Black Star Steel Band

5.45pm Drumatic

Fantastic funky drumming grooves

6.15pm Tequila Mockingbird

The best kept secret of the Western Hemisphere - a hippy freak show of acoustic sounds and rhythms that you and your honey dare not miss!

Little Italy Stage

2pm Ikarus

Live triphop & funky dance from this 7 piece underground phenomenon

3.05pm The Claymore Cheerleaders

3.15pm Dave Anderson & Friends

Swingy R & B with a hint of Latin

4.15pm Scottish Dance Society of Glasgow University

4.30pm La Sonera Calaveras

Fresh after their award-winning performance at Celtic Connections, this new Latin sensation from Glasgow promise to deliver a set of highly seductive Cuban Son. Be ready to dance!

5.45pm Clan Wallace - Braveheart Crew

Rhythms, bagpipes. traditional drums & great Scottish warpipes

6pm Big Elastic Band

nostagia's no' the way it used tae be!

Russells Stage

2pm Trent

Straight-from-the-heart, slap-you-in-the-face, concise and catchy songs

3pm Scottish Dance Society of Glasgow University

3.15pm Celtic Wah Wah

Jimmy Shand meets The Prodigy!

4.15pm The Helen Reeves Band

rootsy country blues with up-tempo vocals

5.15pm Serve Chilled

Glasgow's newest melodic rock band

5.45pm Rhythm Wave

Exciting mix of street drumming, Brazilian sounds and world beats

6.15pm Sound Development Agency

Fresh from their Election Special at King Tut's, a delicious feast of big beats, peculiar noises, psychedelia and all-round shenanigans

This event takes place with the kind co-operation of Glasgow City Council Land Services, Strathclyde Passenger Transport, Strathclyde Police and the café, pub and restaurant owners of the West End.