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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great month of May music form Chris Helme.

Chris Helme
 

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 5th May:

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

Le Tricot Rouge Wilfred Heaton
Ila Brass Band Norway
MD: Bjorn Sagstad- 2012

Raymond Overture
Charles Thomas
Fodens Motor Works Band
MD: Rex Mortimer — 1967

Old Creole Days 3rd Mvt from the Mississippi Suite
Ferde Grofe
Arr: Simon Kerwin
Scottish CWS Band
MD: Ray Tennant — 2004

Wine, Women and Song
Johan Strauss Jnr.
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Geoffrey Whitham — 1963

Shylock — Thomas Lear
Euphonium Soloist Morgan Griffiths Fairey FP Music Band
MD: Howard Snell — 2003

Sousa March compilation —
1) El Capitan 2) Manhattan Beach 3) The Liberty Bell
John Philip Sousa
Arr: Robert Bernat
River City Brass Band
MD: Robert Bernat — 1994

Suite from Stabat Mater
Karl Jenkins
Arr: Andrew Wainwright and Dr. Robert Childs
Cory Band MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2012

The Blue Bells of Scotland
Arthur Pryor
Euphonium Soloist Michael Dodds with the Grimethorpe Colliery UK Coal Band
MD: Gary Cutt — 2002

Lorenzo
Thomas Keighley
Fodens Motor Works Band
MD: Rex Mortimer — 1966

Concert Piece No. 1
Willy Brandt
Arr: Leigh Baker
Cornet Soloist Iain Culross with the Leyland Band
MD: Russell Gary — 2011

The Northern Lights of Old Aberdeen
Mary Webb
Arr: Alan Duguid
Regent Brass
MD: Alan Duguid — 2012

Slaidburn
William Rimmer
Elland Silver Youth Band
MD: Samantha Harrison — 2010

Excerpts from Music of the Spheres
Philip Sparke
Brass Band of Central Florida
MD: Chap Shoopman — 2012

Horizons
Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2011

The Final Countdown & Love Changes Everything — Tempest and Andrew Lloyd Webber Arr: David Cole
Fodens Richardson Band and the Band of her Majesty’s Royal Marines Scotland
MD: Richard Evans — 2003

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

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British Open live-stream

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National Youth ambassadors find new audience in lost oasis

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Regent Hall Concerts - Cross Bones Trombone Quintet

Friday 21 August • Regent Hall (The Salvation Army). 275 Oxford Street. London W1C2DJ


Sherborne Town Band - Free-Music in the park

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Regent Hall Concerts - The Band of the Grenadier Guards

Thursday 17 September • Regent Hall (The Salvation Army). 275 Oxford Street. London W1C2DJ


Regent Hall Concerts - The Duchess of Edinburgh String Orchestra

Friday 18 September • Regent Hall (The Salvation Army). 275 Oxford Street. London W1C2DJ


Wantage Silver Band

August 22 • Wantage Concert Brass (1st Section) are looking for a SOLO HORN and PERCUSSIONIST. Under the direction of our dynamic and inspiring MD Daniel Hall. This year we achieved 3rd at the L&SC regionals. We rehearse Tue & Fri 7:30pm- 9:30pm in our own bandhall


Ashington Colliery Band

August 20 • Front Row Cornet & Tenor Trombone. We're a friendly, ambitious Second Section band based in South East Northumberland just north of Blyth. We rehearse Tuesdays & Thursdays, 19:30-21:30, and transport can be provided depending on location.


Putney and Wimbledon Brass Band

August 18 • Putney and Wimbledon Band are looking for a percussionist, ideally tune although the ability to play an anvil is an absolute must! We play exciting music with lots of percussion so there's plenty to keep you occupied.


Stephen Tighe

ARCM, LDBBA, (Dip)PFS.
Adjudicator / Music Director / Arranger


               

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