bandstands

• Strand WC2, +44 020-77845 4600, somersethouse.org.ukLots of London's open spaces still sport charming bandstands, but they are sadly under-used.

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Now regular gigs are held from May to October in around 20 bandstands across the city, but most frequently in scruffy Northampton Square, Islington, the home of City University.

10 of the best outdoor activities in London 2011

The city fathers made an equally innocent mistake; they announced the closure of three intersections but by the end of the dance eight intersections had been closed - by dancers who brought their own chillonas (boom boxes) por si las dudas (just in case) there wasn't room for them around the bandstands.

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With fourteen different bandstands and sixteen local high school cheerleading squads, there are music and spirit from start to finish along the route.

Long May You Run Chris Cooper 2010

Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux drew people into Central Park by introducing boating and ice-skating, as well as musical concerts; Van Valkenburgh and his team continue this tradition of active and passive recreation, except that instead of Victorian gazebos and bandstands, there will be basketball courts and giant screens for outdoor movies.

Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

The city fathers made an equally innocent mistake; they announced the closure of three intersections but by the end of the dance eight intersections had been closed - by dancers who brought their own chillonas (boom boxes) por si las dudas (just in case) there wasn't room for them around the bandstands.

Wow, What A Dance That Was! Or Que Bailazo! 2008

It was in this vast botanical garden, traversed by wide avenues, and adorned with bandstands and balconies with striped awnings, that a little girl, given the name Irma for the synagogue, and Irina, after the Tsar's niece, was born on 11th February 1903.

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Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux drew people into Central Park by introducing boating and ice-skating, as well as musical concerts; Van Valkenburgh and his team continue this tradition of active and passive recreation, except that instead of Victorian gazebos and bandstands, there will be basketball courts and giant screens for outdoor movies.

Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010

With their rickety piers, crumbling music hall theatres, rusting bandstands and rotting beach huts, deliquescing seaside towns have been deployed most readily, and until fairly recently, as potent symbols of national decline by everyone from John Osborne and Harold Pinter to Martin Parr and Morrissey.

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Olmsted and his partner Calvert Vaux drew people into Central Park by introducing boating and ice-skating, as well as musical concerts; Van Valkenburgh and his team continue this tradition of active and passive recreation, except that instead of Victorian gazebos and bandstands, there will be basketball courts and giant screens for outdoor movies.

Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010