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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Music from Chris Helme and Sunday Bandstand.

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Sunday Bandstand:

Broadcast on Phoenix FM 96.7 community radio in the Halifax area of West Yorkshire. This programme is also available via www.phoenixfm.co.uk Every Sunday afternoon from 2pm to 3pm

Produced and presented by Chris Helme or further information please see: www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk

It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website.

I am always pleased to receive requests – you might want to hear a piece from your own early days in banding, recordings that have long since joined the record deletions list and difficult to find.

Or have a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Sunday 19th February:

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke Opening for weekly show
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

Southern Australia
Arthur Gullidge
International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2009

Four Scottish Dances
Malcolm Arnold
Yorkshire Building Society Band & Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Elgar Howarth — 2000

DL Blues
Don Lusher
Trombone Soloist: Dan Eddison with the
Elland Silver Youth Band
MD: Samantha Harrison — 2009

Prestbury Park
Philip Lane
Sun Life Band
MD: Walter B. Hargreaves — 1977

Gypsy Rondo
Howarth
Rochdale Band
MD: Norman Ashcroft — 1972

British Bandsman March
Derek Broadbent
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: Derek Broadbent — 1988

Rhondda Rhapsody
Mai Jones arr: Eric Ball
Parc and Dare Band
MD: Ieuan Morgan — 1975

Zadak the Priest
Handel arr: G. Brand
Massed Bands of Black Dyke Mills, Fairey, GUS (Footwear), Yorkshire Imperial Metals Bands, York Celebration Choir & Christopher Dearnley Organist
MD: George Hurst — National Brass Band Festival Royal Albert Hall 1972

Cornet Cascade
Robert Docker
Massed Bands as above
MD: Geoffrey Brand — 1972

Begin the Beguine
James Howe
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
MD: Jack Atherton — 1966

Procession to the Minster
Wagner arr H Snell
Massed Bands Desford Colliery, Britannia Building Society & Brighouse and Rastrick Bands
MD: Howard Snell — National Brass Band Festival Royal Albert Hall — 1987

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke Ending for weekly show
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

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