Sunday Bandstand:
Produced and presented by Chris Helme for further information please see www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk and follow the Sunday Bandstand links for this play list and previous week’s. It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website www.phoenixfm.co.uk
Yorkshire Dales
It is also available on Drystone Radio 106.9FM or through their website www.drystoneradio.com on Sunday mornings between 8am and 10am
Wigan
My radio programme has now been picked up by www.wiganfm.com a local internet only radio station and my weekly brass band show can be heard on Sunday’s between 11am and 1pm
New Zealand
Listeners in New Zealand will be pleased to hear that this programme is now also played on www.worldfm.co.nz in Wellington at 2p – 4pm (NZ time) every Thursday.
Requests
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 24th February:
Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Opening for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010
Dance of the Jesters
Peter Tchaikovsky
Arr: James Curnow
Lexington Brass Band (Kentucky USA)
MD: Dr. Ronald Holz — 2004
Guadalajara
Arr: Alan Fernie
West Lothian Schools Band
MD: Nigel Boddice MBE — 2003
Alla Turkis Algeris
Arr: John Slinger
Hammonds Sauce Works Band
MD: Geoffrey Whitham — c1970
Walking the Dog
George Gershwin
Arr: Mark Freeh
Trombone Soloist Brett Baker with the Reg Vardy Band
MD: Ray Farr — 2012
Music for Battle Creek
Philip Sparke
Brass Band Willebroek
MD: Frans Violet — 2010
Stars in the Morning
Kenneth Downie
Norwich Citadel Band
BM: Richard Woodrow 2008
Around the World March
Alex Owen
Besses O’ th’ Barn Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1983
Aria — Bozza
Arr: Klaas van der Woude
Euphonium Soloist Steven Mead with the Williams Fairey Band — 2001
Dance Fever
Kenneth Downie
Massed Bands of Kirkintulloch and the Unison Kinneil
MD: Frank Renton — 2003
Amazing Grace
Arr: Goff Richards
Sellers Engineering Band
MD: Philip McCann with the
Honley Male Voice Choir, The Boys of the Leeds Parish Church Choir & Simon Lindley organ — 1992
The Alchemyst Journal
Kenneth Hesketh
Fodens Richardson Band
MD: Bramwell Tovey — 2008
Hail Ancient Walls
Charles Gounod
Arr: Howard Snell
Euphonium Soloist not known
Brighouse and Rastrick Band
MD: Allan Withington — 1990s
American Trilogy
Arr: Goff Richards
Sellers Engineering Band
MD: Philip McCann — 2003
Ellington Fantasie
Duke Ellington
Arr: Richard Domec
Lexington Brass Band
Guest MD: Dr. Skip Gray — 2000
West Country Fantasie
Gordon Langford
Launceston Town Band
MD: David Dobson — 2012
Misty
Johnny Burke & Errol Garner
Arr: Darrol Barry
Flugel Horn soloist Ellie Joy with the Launceston Town Band
MD: David Dobson — 2012
Highland Cathedral –
Roever & Korb
Massed Bands of Kirkintulloch and the Unison Kinneil, Inverclyde Schools Junior Choir AND Pipe Band
MD: Frank Renton 2003
Finale from William Tell
Rossini
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs 2010
Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Ending for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles – 2010
