A Town Hall festival will take place to celebrate the re-opening of Birmingham's Town Hall after it's £35 million restoration.

The Festival based on the theme 'Celebrating the Past, Pioneering the Future', will feature a wide variety of local talent.

Full details will be released in a brochure published in May 2007. Tickets go on sale in June. The festival takes place 4th - 21st October.

Headline events include Brum Rocks Extra for The Children’s Hospital – a fundraising concert for the Children’s Hospital Red Balloon Appeal, telling the story of the golden era of rock’n’roll in Birmingham with an all-star line-up including Robert Plant, Bev Bevan, John Lodge, and Tony Iommi. A unique collaboration between band of the moment, the Guillemots, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, includes the world premiere of a new work by Guillemots frontman, Birmingham-born Fyfe Dangerfield. Multi-award-winning jazz saxophonist and hip-hop artist Soweto Kinch premieres The Midnight Hop, a specially-commissioned work inspired by the forgotten stories of 18th and 19th-century black musicians in England. He also leads a summer school for young musicians working on the themes and issues of the piece.

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