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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Plenty of great brass band music from the heartland of Yorkshire with Chris Helme.

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  More wonderful brass band music form the heartland of Yorkshire with Chris Helme.

Sunday Bandstand: 31st December

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 shows dating back to 2014.

My website also has a review section and a brass band nostalgia section.

Your CD

Has your band produced a CD this year?

I would be very pleased to play tracks from it if you have. Or have you a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Click this link:


https://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisHelme/sunday-bandstand-31-december-2017/

Playlist:

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

The Carollers (Richard Holz)
Southern Territorial Band
BM: Richard Holz — 2007

Christmas Overture (Roland Kernen)
Soli Brass
MD: Jan De Haan — 2001

Second to None (Philip Sparke)
Cory Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2015

Frosty The Snowman (Steve Nelson & Jack Rollins arr: Sandy Smith)
Soloist: Toby Bannon
Yorkshire Building Society Band
MD: Professor David King — 2003

When a Child is Born (Zacar and Jay arr: John Golland)
Foden's (Courtois) Band
MD: Nicholas Childs — 1998

When You Wish Upon a Star — from Pinocchio (Ned Washington & Leigh Harline arr: Terry Waddell)
Soloist: Herb Bruce
Canadian Staff Band
BM: Brian Burditt — 2005

Sleeping Beauty Waltz (Tchaikovsky arr: Roy Newsome)
Brighouse & Rastrick
MD: Allan Withington — 1994

Christmas on King Street (Roger Davies)
Roger Davies with Hepworth Band
MD: Leigh Baker — 2017

Scheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov arr: Ord Hume)
Foden's Richardson Band
MD: Russell Gray — 2005

Infant Holy (Robert Redhead)
Soloist: Aaron Vanderweele
New York Staff Band
BM: Ron Waiksnoris — 2006

March of the Three Wise Men (Franz Liszt arr: Ronald Holz)
Lexington Brass Band
MD: Dr. Ron Holz — 1998

Once Upon a Time in the West (Ennio Morricone arr: John Glenesk Mortimer)
Vocalist: Elizabeth Atkinson
Sellers International Band
MD: Philip McCann — 2004

Caribbean Christmas (Sandy Smith)
Yorkshire Building Society Band
MD: Professor David King — 2003

Largo from the New World Symphony (Dvorak arr: Martin Ellerby)
Grimethorpe Colliery RJB Band
MD: Garry Cutt and Chris Helme with childhood memories of Christmas back in the 1950s....

Yule Dance (Philip Harper)
Cory Band
MD: Philip Harper — 2016

Bonnie Mary of Argyle (Robert Burns arr: James McCabe)
Soloist: James McCabe
Rothwell Temperance Band
MD: David Roberts — 2017

Scottish Rhapsody (Alan Fernie)
Sellers Engineering Band
MD: Douglas Blackledge — 1992

They Shall Come from the East (Kevin Larsson)
International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2012

Carol of Bells (Mykola Leontovych arr: Andrew Wainwright)
Virtuosi GUS Band
MD: John Berryman — 2012

Reunion and Finale (Randy Edelman arr: Andrew Duncan)
Yorkshire Building Society Band
MD: Dr. David King — 2003

March of the Kings (arr: Robert Redhead)
Canadian Staff Band
BM: Captain Robert Redhead — 1980

Christmas Finale (Paul Lovatt-Cooper)
North Carolina Brass Band
MD: Brian Meixner — 2016

Auld Lang Syne (Traditional arr: Alan Fernie)
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 201

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

Best wishes for 2018

Enjoy the show....

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