26 Best of 2017 h is for Holmes Fest
To see my way through the brightening January days, I’m reliving my best of 2017: shows, books, music, poetry, drawings and scribblings.
Holmes Fest was tremendous this year. The brainchild of Matt Wingett, it celebrates Conan Doyle’s arrival here in Portsmouth, where he fetched up, met his wife, and set up a medical practice that struggled so much that he was forced to dream up popular stories about a certain detective. Projections by Dr Lighthouse, stories galore and steampunk attire in evidence, thanks to the Gosport Steampunk Society and their nerf gun demonstration.
Highlight: Hudson and Lestrade (the inimitable duo Janet Ayers and Matt Parsons) with their renditions of The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
He’d recommend some ointment for your boils.
He believed in gnomes
He invented Sherlock Holmes
Thank you, Arthur Conan Doyle.
Next year’s event will be bigger, and, I confidently predict, this will be Portsmouth’s biggest festival by 2022.
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