Saturday Street Entertainment

Walkabout acts, crazy characters, circus and clowning bring the streets and open spaces of Ripon to life throughout the day.

Professional acts come together with community performers including Ripon City Morris Dancers, the All for One Choir and Ripon Youth Theatre.

Performances will be staged at Ripon Market Place, Minster Gardens (in front of the Courthouse Museum), in Ripon Arcade and linking streets around the city. Watch out for giant dodos, juggling pirates, pesky dragons and masked old ladies mingling with comic escapologists and a man inside a giant balloon!

All events are free. The running order for the Market Place Zone is:

9.30am-10.30am	Gav Cross: Traditional Tales (The Unicorn)
10am-10.30am	The Great Mandavi The Hare and the Moon (Cabman’s Shelter)
10.30am-11am	Ripon City Morris Dancers & 400 Roses
10.30am-11.30am	Beached (Claro Lounge)
11am-1pm	Freddie Cleary (The Arcade)
11am-11.45am	The Maniax
11.45am-12.15pm	Dizzy O’Dare’s Giant Balloon Show
12.15pm – 12.45pm	Ripon Youth Theatre
12.45pm-1.15pm	Cabin Fever
1pm-3.30pm	Maggie Wakeling (The Arcade)
1.30pm-2pm	Alannah Creed (outside Davis & Lund)
1.15pm-1.45pm	Ripon City Morris Dancers & 400 Roses
1.45pm-2.30pm	The Maniax
2.30pm-3pm	Cabin Fever
3pm-3.30pm	Alannah Creed (outside Davis & Lund)
3pm-3.30pm	The Great Mandavi
3.30pm-4pm	All for One Choir

The running order for Minster Gardens is:

11am-11:30am	Ripon Drum Circle and Sycamore Drummers
11:30am-12noon	The Hare and the Moon
12noon-12:45pm	Gav Cross: Twisted Tales for Terrible Children (Courthouse Museum)
1pm-1:30pm	The Great Mandavi
1:30pm-2pm	Dizzy O’Dare’s Giant Balloon Show
2pm-3pm	Ripon City Morris Dancers & 400 Roses

 

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Cabin Fever

Join Captain Bullock and Bosun Bell for maritime mayhem, magic and mirth. Clap along as our seafaring mateys navigate the celestial spheres. The finale features the brave little Dove of Peace & Love being fired out of a Canon!! Come and see if she survives! It’s a nautical extravaganza of eccentric experiments, sensational circus skills, and hilarious feats of derring-do.

12.30pm Market Place

2.30pm Market Place

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The Flying Dodos

Despite all the odds, an unknown subspecies of the dodo has been discovered! Much larger than their extinct cousins and able to fly (sort of), Charles and Amelia, two relics of a bygone era, are very excited to be travelling the world to see what they’ve been missing.

10am-4pm Ripon City Centre

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The Crimplene Crusaders

These octogenarian upholders of moral values will be out and about with one thing on their minds: to keep standards high. Our twin-set clad campaigners will keep a firm eye out for any slouching, flirting, or hand-holding, making sure that good old-fashioned values are championed.

10am-4pm Ripon City Centre

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The Maniax

Twice winners of the prestigious ‘Street Show of The Year’ award this hilarious, spectacular comedy performance has been performed all over the world. Based on an amazing Houdini style escape the show is packed with stunts, illusions and great comic routines.

11am Market Place

2pm Market Place

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Never too Old

A long-suffering Grandpa and a stubborn Grandma battle it out for your attention and affections. This Yorkshire couple have certainly been around for decades, but they’re no strangers to the 21st century. They’re feisty, they’re mobile (well, just about…) and they’re connected (they know what social media is… and they’re not afraid to use it!) Living proof that you’re never too old to do anything…

10am-4pm Ripon City Centre

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The Great Mandavi

Described as “eccentric”, “hilarious” and “charming”, this act is a firm favourite at festivals across the UK. Too busy performing at Glastonbury to join us 2022, he has cleared his schedules to bring unicycling, juggling and antics to Ripon. Don’t miss him this year!

10am Market Place

1pm Minster Gardens

3pm Market Place

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The (Little) Hazelsong Dragons

Cute or scary? You decide. Hazelsong Theatre bring their newest dragon creations to the streets of Ripon. Mobile, curious and persistent, you’d better watch out – they could be anywhere!

10am-4pm Ripon City Centre

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The Giant Balloon Show

The Giant Balloon Show will have the audience in stitches and in awe simultaneously. Expect feverous balloon sculptures, high energy comic performance and of course the all-important giant balloon! Take everything you know about balloons, add an award-winning entertainer and an 80’s soundtrack, and twist that into a highly entertaining show for the whole family.

11.30am Market Place

1.30pm Minster Gardens

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Local Performers

Enjoy some super local performers throughout the day, including:

All For One Choir

Ripon Youth Theatre

Freddie Cleary

Ripon City Morris Dancers

400 Roses

Maggie Wakeling

Alannah Creed