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Liberation Day is set to go virtual again this year, with plans instead for ‘Liberation 77’ next year to make up for the big celebrations the island missed due to the pandemic.
Due to continuing covid uncertainty, the Bailiff’s Chambers have announced that this year’s celebrations will once again be scaled back and delivered via social media.
The official schedule of celebrations, which will be live-streamed on social media, will be:
10:30 Special States Sitting with a limited number of States members attending due to physical distancing.
10:50 Musical Originals to sing
10:55 Bailiff’s public address
11:00 Service of Thanksgiving by the Dean of Jersey from the Town Church
11:05 Beautiful Jersey sung by Musical Originals soloist
11:02 Re-enactment of the Liberation including the Jersey Field Squadron retracing the footsteps of F135
11:06 Flag raising/National Anthem
In addition, the Bailiff Chambers will be assisting the Liberation Music Festival, which is promising a mix of online and in-person concerts.
The festival begins on Liberation Day (Sunday 9 May) at 20:00 with the Virtual Liberation Day Celebration featuring more than 100 Jersey musicians.
Running until June, there’ll be a number of ‘Musical Walks’ and concerts in island beauty spots, culminating in the Liberation@Home Finale, a digital concert featuring Jersey stars alongside international soloists, on 13 June at 20:00.
The Bailiff’s Chambers said it had hoped to continue with a number of projects from 2020’s milestone Liberation 75, but that plans were now underway to ensure next year’s celebration makes up for it.
Pictured top, right: The original Liberation Day, 1945. (Société Jersiaise Photographic Archive)
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