Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Although the term Promenade Concert is normally associated today with the series of concerts founded in 1895 by Robert Newman and the conductor Henry Wood – a festival known today as the BBC Proms – the term originally referred to concerts in the pleasure gardens of London where the audience could stroll about while listening to the music (French se promener = to walk). Pleasure gardens which levied a small entrance fee and provided a variety of entertainment had become extremely popular in London by the eighteenth century. Music was provided from bandstands (known as ‘'orchestras'') or more permanent buildings, and was generally of the popular variety: ballroom dances, quadrilles (medleys), cornet solos etc. Other entertainments would have included fireworks, masquerades and acrobatics. There were 38 gardens which are known to have provided music. Perhaps the most famous of these were Vauxhall Gardens (1661-1859), south of the Thames.

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