73-mile musical relay to mark Music Day along Hadrian’s Wall


Hundreds of musicians will journey by bicycle, horse, open top vintage bus, motorbike and unicycle, passing a baton while performing along the World Heritage Site from west Cumbria to North Tyneside.

Hadrian’s Wall was a Roman frontier built in the years AD 122-30 by order of the Emperor Hadrian. It was 73 miles long and ran from Wallsend-on-Tyne in the east to Bowness on the Solway Firth in the west.

BBC Music Day takes place on Friday June 5.

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