RAF Digby Party in the Park Press Release
Royal Air Force Digby Party in the Park
RAF Digby's Party in the Park is back for a fourth successful year. This year's programme is
packed to the seams with live music and family entertainment.
• RAF Digby's Party in the Park, a fun-packed day of family entertainment and music, will
return on Saturday 4 Aug 07.
• Party in the Park at RAF Digby provides the unique opportunity of seeing the Massed
Bands of the RAF play in the open air.
• Children's entertainment and covered shelter areas will be provided.
• Tickets are now available for sale – full details at the end of this release.
• Parachute Display Team and Spitfire Flypast.
• Proceeds to benefit Service and local charities.
• Substantial discount available to early bookers, representing 1/3 off the gate price.
• www.digbypartyinthepark.org.uk
Party in the Park is back for its fourth year and will build on the experience of our previous events
to bring a best-ever Digby day to remember. 4 Aug 07 will see upto 5000 visitors travel to RAF
Digby for our all-day programme of arena events and musical entertainment which will have
something for every family member and all age ranges. Gates open early, with the official opening
ceremony to take place at 1300.
The musical line-up includes military music drawing on the Massed Bands of the RAF. They will
be accompanied by TNT Soul Explosion, a six-piece soul, blues and covers group drawn from the
Band of the Royal Air Force Regiment who will play music from artists such as The Blues Brothers,
The Commitments, James Brown, Tom Jones and Robbie Williams. TNT Soul Explosion has been
very popular with the young and old at past Parties. The RAF Shades of Blue Orchestra, a
recently formed 18-piece Big Band, will also provide a wide range of musical styles from Glenn
Miller to Phil Collins and Benny Goodman. In addition to the Massed Bands of the RAF further acts
will be playing on stage and in the acoustic tent - new for 2007.
In the event arena there will be many events during the daytime to keep the excitement levels high.
The ever-popular MOD Police Dog Team will be back with their fast-moving display of defence's
finest canines! We also hope to have the final games of both the 5-a-side football and touch rugby
tournaments that will be played in the Party in the Park Arena during the afternoon.
At this year's Party in the Park we have once more laid on free children's entertainment throughout
the day, including face painting, Punch and Judy, magic tricks and clowns, focusing in the
entertainers' pavilion. This will be complemented by the bouncy castle, merry-go-round and the
ever-popular giant inflatable slide. There will also be ample shaded rest area to cater for any
extremes of the British summer weather.
Once the afternoon's events are completed a Spitfire flypast, accompanied by the musical Spitfire
Prelude, will mark the start of the main musical programme for the evening.
Although many families bring their own refreshments with them, visitors will be able to enjoy the
products of a variety of hot food and drink stands throughout the event. We also have a number of
exhibitors, traders and charities attending.
Look out for our team of raffle ticket sellers as they will try to part you from your cash for the raffle
which will be drawn live on stage. The star prize is a brand-new Citroen C1 – well worth a flutter –
and there will be other prizes including free flying lessons and local restaurant meals.
The culmination of 2007's Party will be the trademark spectacular firework display which will last at
least a quarter of an hour.
Finally, to accompany the day's entertainment on stage and in the arena, the Station's World War
II Sector Ops Room Museum will be open to visitors, while our Clay Pigeon shooting club and Gokarting
club will be inviting guests to have a go, all in aid of our chosen beneficiary charities
(Combat Stress, British Forces Foundation, RAF Music Charitable Trust and local charities).
Party in the Park gates open early, with the official opening at 1300. Tickets for the event can be
purchased online from our website, www.partyinthepark.org.uk, over the phone from our ticket
office on 01526 327684, or by post from Party in the Park, RAF Digby, LINCOLN LN4 3LH (Adults
£10, under 16s £3, military discount £7.50, 50p handling fee, cheques payable to Service Funds
RAF Digby)
Party in the Park is made possible by the support of our main sponsors, BAE Insyte and Lockheed
Martin, and further sponsors Alfred McAlpine, Babcock Dyncorp, EDS, General Dynamics UK and
Thales UK.
