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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music from Chris Helme from the heartland of Yorkshire.

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  More great brass band music from Chris Helme

Sunday Bandstand 17th February 2019:

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-17-february-2019/

Playlist

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

Salute to America (Samuel Augustus Ward)
Hendon Citadel Band
BM: Stephen Cobb (1990)

Confoederatio Helvetica Overture (Roy Newsome)
Sunlife Band
MD: Roy Newsome (1996)

Kiwi Dragon (Matthew Hall)
Soloist: Byron Newton
Wellington Brass Band 10-piece ensemble
MD: David Bremner (2014)

Showboat (Kern and Hammerstein ll arr. J. Ord Hume)
Redbridge Brass
MD: Melvin White (1998)

Saturday Market (Anthony Hedges)
GUS (Footwear) Band
MD: John Berryman (1982)

The Plantagenets (Edward Gregson)
GUS (Footwear) Band
MD: Keith Wilkinson (1982)

Annie Laurie — Traditional (arr. David Catherwood)
Soloist: Derick Kane
International Staff Band
BM: Dr Stephen Cobb (1999)

Little Brown Jug (Glen Miller)
Brass Band Berner Oberland (Switzerland)
MD: Adrian Schneider

Sweet Gingerbread Man (Eric Banks)
Peter Hawke Garages Lindley Band
MD: Neil Jowett (1997)

Tara's Theme from Gone with the Wind (Max Steiner arr. Alan Catherall)
Redbridge Brass
MD: Melvin White (1995)

Blitz (Derek Bourgeois)
Black Dyke Mills
MD: Major Peter Parkes (1982)

Bare Necessities from Jungle Book (arr. Leigh Baker)
Soloist: David Hebb
Brighouse & Rastrick
MD: Richard Evans (2007)

St Clements (arr. Andrew Blyth)
Massed Bands of the International, Amsterdam, Canadian, Chicago,
German, Japan, Melbourne and New Staff of the Salvation Army
BM: Dr Stephen Cobb (2011)

Mountain Song (Philip Sparke)
Brass Band De Waldsang
MD: Rieks van der Velde (2008)

A Search for Peace (Rebecca Lundberg)
Soloist: Kirsty Abbotts
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
MD: Philip McCann (2015)

Hebrides Overture (Mendelssohn arr. George Thompson)
CWS Glasgow Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs (2013)

Deep Passage (Emil Soderstrom)
Williams Fairey Band
MD: James Williams

Amazing Grace (Traditional)
City of Wellington Highland Pipe Band and the Onslow Brass Band
MD: Norman Goffin (1960)

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

Enjoy the show...

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