BOLTON'S Christmas lights will be switched on tonight - here's all the information you need if you're planning to go along:
Stage times:
- 5.00pm MC to introduce the evening
- 5.05pm Lime Chase perform x 2 numbers (original song and Merry Christmas Everyone – Slade)
- 5.15pm The Secrets x 2 numbers (Santa Claus Is Coming to Town and Maybe Baby (original song)
- 5.25pm Dharma Sings x 1 number (All I want for Christmas by Mariah Carey)
- 5.32pm Bolton Little Voices x 2 numbers from Frozen. 15-year-old Matilda Carroll sings First Time In Forever, 10-year-old Tayla Cottom sings Let It Go
- 5.42pm Jenna Taylor sings You ruin me by the Veronicas)
- 5.50pm Albert Halls pantomime x 2 numbers
- 6.00pm Bolton Children’s Workshop x 5mins: 5 min medley : Move...Little Mix; Jingle Bells; Selfie ....
- 6.07pm Bolton Ukele Group x 2 numbers (Shakin Stevens - Merry Christmas Everyone and Roy Wood - I wish it could be Christmas every day).
- 6.15pm Jade Assembly performs x 2 numbers (Merry Xmas, Slade cover & One Last Time TJA original song)
- 6.25pm Redd performs x 2 numbers (2 original tracks)
- 6.32pm MC back on stage – Neil Lennon and John McGinlay for big Bolton welcome!
- 6.35pm Our Fold performs x 2 numbers
- 6.45pm MC on stage to announce in the parade and Father Christmas
- Happy Birthday to be played as Snowmen announced in – 21 years old this year!
- 6.52pm Katy Ashworth on stage
- 6.57pm Father Christmas and Katy Ashworth with Mayor and Mayoress in position for the countdown and switch on
- 7.00pm Lights switch on followed by firework finale from Town Hall roof
Parade details:
Leaving 6.25pm from Churchgate; arriving at Victoria Square at 6.45pm; to be announced in at 6.50pm
Parade participants:
- Eagley Brass Band
- Snowmen x 6 celebrating their 21st birthday
- Chicks on sticks as big angels x 2
- Bolton Majorettes dance troupe
- Christmas Belles on stilts x 2
- Dance Masters – cheerleaders
- Light Walkers on stilts x 2
- Diamond Whites – Wanderers dancers
- Jack Frost on stilts
- Little Voices x 10 students and 2 adults
- Albert Halls pantomime dancers
- Bolton Children’s Workshop and Pippa Panda
- Father Christmas in his sleigh with the mayor and mayoress of Bolton
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