The feast of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart of Jesus is being celebrated in Sliema on July 6.
Next Saturday, the Sliema Band will perform Franz Von Suppe's Light Cavalry synchronised to a fireworks show followed by ground and aerial fireworks from 10 p.m. at the Strand, Sliema. The programme includes Neapolitan and Italian songs by Vittorio Gauci, the Italian Symphony by Willy Hautvast and Cardenio Botti's Celebre Marcia. This year the band is marking the 75th anniversary of the first performance of its hymn Sliema, composed and conducted by Cardenio Botti.
The band is also celebrating the 25th anniversary of its youth section.