WALLACE 700 - 2008 Ceremony

 Sunday 7th September 2008

 

 

These details are provisional and subject to change...

13:00 Kintore Pipe Band
13.30 "Gaita" - Medieval Musicians at Wallace Statue
13.35  "Blythe Aberdeane"

Comedic Playlet based on Aberdeen`s grand welcome to Queen Margaret in 1511. Captured in William Dunbar`s epic poem of that name. Script by Charles Barron , characters  & players by Loirston Drama Group and pupils from Robert Gordon`s; St Margaret`s & Walker Road .

14.00
Welcome - from the Very Reverend Dr A.E. Nimmo - Dean of Aberdeen & Orkney
14.05 Annual Wallace Address from Reverend John Anderson
14.15 Wreath Laying Ceremony - Lord Provost Peter Stephen & Lord Aberdeen
14.30 Wallace Pageant - The life & death of Sir William Wallace by pupils of Ferryhill Primary School
15.00 The Declaration of Arbroath - Loirston Drama Group & Mediaeval Realm players mime signing & read extract from the
historic Declaration of Arbroath
15.20 Dedication - Rev Stephen Taylor of the Mither Kirk o St Nicholas
15.30 Kintore Pipe Band