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WHAT'S ON WHEN - 2006
All dates listed are given in good faith but should be checked
Every year I find this page more difficult to compile, deciding what to include and what to leave out is always very difficult. This year I have tried to feature some of the larger events due to take place during 2006 as well as a few of the smaller ones as well. I have also tried to make it a little more international than previously.
If you think there is something which should be included please let me know - my email address is june@hintsandthings.com
MONTH
DATE
EVENT
JANUARY 1st - 3rd Fiesta Bowl Football, Sun Devil Stadium, Tempe, Arizona 1st New Year's Day Parade, Parliament Square to Berkeley Square, London 2nd - 4th Orange Bowl Football - Dolphins Stadium, Miami, Florida 2nd - 5th Rose Bowl (BCS Championship Football) - Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena 6th - 5th International Boat Show, EXCEL, London Docklands 7th - 15th Lakeside World Championships, Frimley Green, England 13th - 15th Whittlesey Straw Bear Festival, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, traditional folk event 21st - 22nd British Homing Pigeon World Show of the Year, Wintergardens, Blackpool 25th Chinese New Year Celebrations, Gerrard Street and Leicester Square, London 25th January - 2nd July Royal Court Theatre: A Celebration of Fifty Years, National Portrait Gallery, Balcony Gallery, London 27th - 29th NHL All Star Weekend (Hockey), Glendale Arena, Phoenix, Arizona FEBRUARY 2nd - 6th Superbowl XL Football - Ford Dield, Detroit, MI 10th - 13th NFL Pro Bowl Football - Aloha Stadium, Honolulu 10th - 26th Winter Olympics, Torino, Italy 15th - 19th London Fashion Week at the Natural History Museum, London 16th - 19th Spring Chester Antiques & Fine Art Show 16th - 26th York Viking Festival 17th - 19th NBA All Star Weekend Basketball - Toyota Centre, Houston, Texas 18th - 26th Milan Fashion Week, Milan, Italy 19th Daytona 500, Daytona International Speedway, Daytona, Florida 28th Pancake Day and races, especially the Great Spitalfields Pancake Race 28th February - 5th March Spring Fine Art, Design and Antiques Fair, Olympia, London MARCH 28th February - 5th March Spring Fine Art, Design and Antiques Fair, Olympia, London 1st - 5th Cricket - 1st Test, VCA Stadium, Nagpur 8th March - 2nd April Ideal Home Exhibition, Earls Court London 9th - 12th Crufts Dog Show at the NEC Birmingham 9th - 13th 2nd Test, PCA Cricket Stadium, Mohali 12th F1 Grand Prix (motor racing) Bahrain 14th - 17th National Hunt Festival, Cheltenham 18th - 22nd 3rd Test, Wankhede Stadium, Mumbai
19th F1 Grand Prix Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 23rd - 26th Stitch & Craft 2006, Needlecraft and Cross Stitch Event, Olympia, London APRIL
8th March - 2nd April Ideal Home Exhibition, Earls Court London 1st - 3rd NCAA Final Four Basketball - RCA Dome, Indianapolis, Indiana 2nd F1 Grand Prix (motor racing) - Melbourne, Australia 2nd Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, Putney to Mortlake, River Thames, London 3rd - 9th Masters Tournament (Golf), Augusta National, Augusta 6th - 8th The Aintree Horse Racing Festival, Aintree (including The Grand National) 23rd F1 San Marino Grand Prix (motor racing) Imola 23rd London Marathon, Greenwich to The Mall, London 27th April - 1st May Cheltenham Jazz Festival, Cheltenham, Glos. MAY 5th - 6th Kentucky Derby & Oaks, (horse racing), Churchill Downs. Louisville, Kentucky 7th F1 Grand Prix of Europe (motor racing), Nurburgring, Germany 11th - 14th Royal Windsor Horse Show, Windsor Castle 13th FA Football Cup Final (originally at the new Wembley Stadium but now at Millennium Stadium, Cardiff)
14th F1 Spanish Grand Prix (motor racing) Catalunya, Spain 23rd - 27th Chelsea Flower Show, Royal Hospital, Chelsea, London 26th F1 Grand Prix, Monaco (motor racing) 26th May - 4th June Hay Festival, Hay on Wye 28th Indy 500 - Indianapolis Motor Speedway, Indianapolis, Indiana JUNE 26th May - 4th June Hay Festival, Hay on Wye 3rd Derby Day at Epsom, Horse Racing 7th - 11th Cheltenham Science Festival, Cheltenham, Glos. 8th - 11th Antiquarian Book Fair Olympia 11th F1 British Grand Prix (motor racing), Silverstone, UK 12th - 18th Stella Artois Grass Court Championship, Queen's Club, London 8th - 18th Fine Art and Antiques Fair, Olympia, London 9th - 11th F1 - The British Grand Prix Race Day, Silverstone 15th - 18th US Open Golf, Winged Foot Golf Club, Mamaroneck 17th Trooping the Colour, Whitehall 15th - 21st Grosvenor House Art and Antiques Fair, Le Meridien Grosvenor, London 20th - 24th Ascot Week (Horse Racing), Berkshire 24th - 25th Robbie Williams concert - Croke Park, Dublin 25th F1 Canadian Grand Prix (motor racing), Montreal, Canada 26th June - 9th July Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships, London 26th June - 13th July City of London Festival, London Please note there is no Glastonbury Festival in 2006. The next festival will be the 22nd to the 24th June 2007
28th Robbie Williams concert, Hampden Park, Glasgow 28th June - 2nd July Henley Royal Regatta, River Thames, Henley-on-Thames 30th June - 15th July Cheltenham Music Festival, Cheltenham, Glos. JULY 30th June - 15th July Cheltenham Music Festival, Cheltenham, Glos. 26th June - 9th July Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Championships, London 26th June - 13th July City of London Festival, London 28th June - 2nd July Henley Royal Regatta, River Thames, Henley-on-Thames 1st - 2nd Robbie Williams concert - Stadium of Manchester, Manchester 2nd F1 United States Grand Prix (motor racing), Indianapolis, USA 4th World Cup Football (Semi Final 1) - Westfalenstadion, Dortmund, Germany 5th World Cup Football (Semi Final 2) - Munich 4th - 9th Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod 4th - 9th Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, Hampton Court Palace, Surrey 5th - 9th Henley Festival 8th - 9th Robbie Williams concert, Wembley Arena, London (check venue)
8th - 9th T in the Park, Balado, Near Kinross, Perth and Kinross, Scotland 8th - 24th Buxton Festival 9th World Cup Football - Final - Berlin 12th - 16th The Scottish Open (Golf), Loch Lomond 14th - 16th Guilfest, Stoke Park, Guildford 14th July - 9th September BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London 16th F1 French Grand Prix (motor racing) Magny-Cours, France 19th Robbie Williams concert, The Millennium Stadium, Cardiff 20th - 23rd The British Open Golf Championship, Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, Liverpool, England 27th - 30th Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge 28th - 30th Womad, Rivermead, Reading 30th F1 German Grand Prix (motor racing) Hockenheim, Germany AUGUST 14th July - 9th September BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London 4th - 6th The Big Chill, Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire 5th - 12th National Eisteddfod of Wales, St. Davids, Pembrokeshire 6th - 28th Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland 6th F1 Hungarian Grand Prix (motor racing) Budapest, Hungary 13th August - 3rd September Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland 14th - 20th PGA Championship Golf, Medinah Country Club, Medinah, Illinois 17th - 20th Festival of Quilts, NEC Birmingham UK 17th - 28th Marymass Festival, Scotland 19th - 20th V Festival, Chelmsford, Essex and Weston Park, Staffordshire UK 25th - 27th Carling Festival, Rivermead, Reading and Bramham Park, Wetherby 27th F1 Turkish Grand Prix (motor racing), Istanbul, Turkey 27th - 28th Notting Hill Carnival, London 28th August - 10th September US Open Tennis Championship, Arthur Ashe Stadium, Queens New York. SEPTEMBER 13th August - 3rd September Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland 14th July - 9th September BBC Proms, Royal Albert Hall, London 28th August - 10th September US Open Tennis Championship, Arthur Ashe Stadium, Queens New York. 2nd The Braemar Gathering 2nd Fun Dog Show Albrighton Junior School, Albrighton, Nr. Wolverhampton (10.30am)
10th Brick Lane Festival, Brick Lane, London 10th F1 Italian Grand Prix (motor racing), Monza, Italy 16th - 17th Thames Festival, River Thames. London 20th - 24th Ryder Cup Golf, K Club, Straffan, Co. Kildare, Ireland OCTOBER 1st F1 Chinese Grand Prix (motor racing), Shanghai, China 4th - 8th The Horse of the Year Show, NEC Arena, Birmingham, UK 6th - 15th 57th Cheltenham Literature Festival, Cheltenham, Glos. 8th F1 Japanese Grand Prix (motor racing), Suzuka, Japan tbc London Film Festival 21st October MLB World Series Baseball commences 22nd F1 Brazilian Grand Prix (motor racing), Sao Paolo, Brazil NOVEMBER 4th (tbc) Christmas Lights turned on, Regent Street, London 5th London to Brighton Veteran Car Run starting in Hyde Park, London 7th - 9th Cliff Richard concert, Wembley Arena, London (check venue) 11th Lord Mayor's Show, London 12th Remembrance Sunday, Whitehall, London 14th (tbc) Christmas Lights turned on, Oxford Street, London 16th - 17th Cliff Richard Concert, NIA, Birmingham, UK 20th - 23rd Bob Dylan concert, Brixton Academy, Brixton, London 22nd - 23rd Cliff Richard concern, Hallam FM Arena, Sheffield 25th Cliff Richard concert, MEN Arena, Manchester 28th - 29th Cliff Richard concert, Telewest Arena, Newcastle 28th (tbc) Christmas Tree goes up in Trafalgar Square DECEMBER 3rd Christmas Without Cruelty Fayre, Kensington Town Hall, London 6th Cliff Richard concert, Point Theatre, Dublin, Ireland 9th, 10th, 12th and 20th Rod Stewart concert, Earl's Court, London 14th - 16th Coldplay concert, Earl's Court, London 18th Rod Stewart concedrt, NEC, Birmingham 19th Coldplay concert, MEN Arena, Manchester These dates are subject to confirmation – please check.