The Golden Jubilee Weekend will conclude on Tuesday 4 June with a spectacular festival in the Mall, London, featuring thousands of performers. The parade will start at around 1.45pm in the Mall, and will last until shortly after 5pm.

Around 20,000 people from all around the UK and the Commonwealth will come together to present the Britain of yesterday, today and tomorrow as well as the diversity of culture, creed, background, age and race of those who live and work together in this country. Amongst the highlights of the day:

• The Ceremonial Procession in the morning which will be accompanied for the first time by a full symphony orchestra and 800 choristers with military, brass and steel bands performing a unique 150 page score arrangement of music with singing created by Barry Hingley, called Progress for the Queen.
  
  
• The masquerade bands of the Notting Hill Carnival will perform for the first time outside their annual festival to lead the procession down the Mall in the afternoon with over 2,500 participants. Various costumes have been specially created for the occasion including one that features a stunning crown of lights (see visuals on CD-Rom).
  
  
• The largest ever choir of gospel singers of 5000 people, drawn from over 25 different groups, will perform without microphones led by singer, TV and West End star Patti Boulaye. The Metropolitan Police and youngsters from the Stage Coach Theatre Arts School will join with various African, Caribbean and other ethnic groups to sing famous gospel songs, all punctuated with 'Amen'. Performed for the first time will be a song written by Patti Boulaye especially for the Golden Jubilee called Celebrate Good News. The parade will be a blaze of colour and energy.
  
  
• Stunt riders, stilt walkers and five decades of vehicles will add to the theatre of the 50 years' parade, led by Hell's Angels leader SNOB. Starting with life in 1952, magical floats will capture key aspects of our country's development in music, fashion, art, politics and science. Food and family life will feature highly and some famous faces will add to the entertainment.
  
  
• Britain's museums have been raided to bring alive our nation's service history with a parade of floats, historical vehicles and uniforms worn by those who have contributed great service to the country during The Queen's reign. Highlights include a futuristic look at fire brigade training vehicles and, rather unusually, a float from the Prison Service depicting the changing treatment of prisoners over the five decades.
  
  
• A parade dedicated to the talents of children of all ages and backgrounds has been masterminded by the famous 'inclusive' Chicken Shed Theatre Group. Around 1000 children between the ages of 7 -18, many of whom will be performing for the first time, will celebrate the joy and creativity of shared communication in a specially-written song and choreography - Together Talking
  
  
• The procession's finale will be a spectacular 30 minute parade involving 4,000 people from 54 Commonwealth countries who will create a living artwork which captures the diversity and harmony of the Commonwealth nations. The visual and symbolic highpoint will be four 30-foot high arches forming a rainbow of wishes - the biggest collaborative 'art-work' ever - containing 4,000 individual, hand drawn messages to The Queen from thousands of school children across the Commonwealth. Diverse acts will include martial arts, sports groups, singers, dancers and drummers, all performing in their national dress. Ndbele women from Southern Africa will leave their tribe for the first time to feature on their artistic geometric float as will tattooed Kapa Haka dancers, singers and drummers from New Zealand.
  
  
• Bringing the pageantry to a close will be the first ever hanging from the Palace balcony to the ground. Produced by the Royal School of Needlework and designer, Keith Khan, it captures today's multicultural Britain with thousands of flags created by children across the Commonwealth using embroidery, knitting, sewing, and even bottle tops!
  
  
• A fly past of 26 RAF aircraft followed by the Red Arrows and Concorde will bring the Jubilee Weekend's events to the most spectacular conclusion on the evening of Tuesday 4th June.