Friday Round-up

Street Piano as part of the City of London Festival

The City of London Festival is a three-week long annual event which brings a variety of arts and art forms to the City residents and workers and I know from last year’s just how popular it was in my office with mainstream arts mixing with the decidedly unconventional, but highly entertaining.

The kick-off today is marked by a procession from the Guidhall at 12.30 finishing at St Pauls at 1.30 and then at 2.30 they’ll be a Street Piano event in Paternoster Square by St Pauls. The pianos will be around until July 13th so you’ve got plenty of time to find one and give it a go.

As one festival starts, so another finishes with it being the last day of the Spitalfields Summer 09 Music Festival and your last chance to catch the free lunchtime concert with the closing event being tonight’s concert by the Early Opera Company in Christ Church Spitalfields with early Italian compositions.

London Playboy Party

On my travels yesterday I bumped into two lovely, if decidedly cold, young ladies at Liverpool Street Station trying to tempt me into going to the London Playboy Party tonight at the Cafe de Paris. I’m otherwise engaged this evening so didn’t take them up on their offer though if you do go perhaps they’ll be able to afford to buy some of their lovely models some clothes…