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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Lots more great music from Chris Helme.

Chris Helme
 

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 17th June:

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

Roll Away Bet — March
William Rimmer
Foden's Band
MD: Rex Mortimer — 1966

L’italiana in Algeri
Gioachino Rossini
Fairey Band
MD: Kenneth Dennison — 1970s

The Paragon
Edwin Sutton
Cornet Soloist: Richard Marshall
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2011

Speed your Journey from Nabucco
Verdi Arr: Peter Graham
Honley Male Voice Choir & Boys of Leeds Parish Church Choir with the
Sellers Engineering Band
MD: Phillip McCann — 1992

Land of Make Believe
Chuck Mangione Arr: Lee Harrelson
Fountain City Band
MD: Dr. Joseph Parisi — 2010

Olympus — March
George Hawkins
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: James Watson — 1995

The Old Rugged Cross
Arr: J. Morrison
Trumpet Soloist James Morrison
Foden's Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2000

Lullaby
Brahms
Euphonium Duet: Derrick and Stephen Kane
Richard Phillips piano accompaniment — 2011

Brazilian Dance
Guarnieri
Eikanger Bjorsvik Musikklag Band
MD: Howard Snell — 1993

Transformations
Kenneth Downie
International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2011

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke Ending for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles – 2010

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Presenter, compere and conductor


               

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