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Smithills head For London

Chris Wormald and Smithills Schools Senior Band are set to educate the educators in London.

Wormald
 

On Tuesday January 8th Smithills School Senior Brass Band and MD Chris Wormald have been invited by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust on behalf of the Government to perform for sixty education ministers and a host of invited special guests at a Gala Dinner to be held at the Royal Garden Hotel in London.

Chariots

Principal speaker will be Lord Puttnam, most famous for producing the Oscar winning film 'Chariots of Fire'. The evening will open with a brand new fanfare commissioned especially for the event and composed by Chris Wormald followed by a twenty minute concert programme by the band.

The evening will open with a brand new fanfare commissioned especially for the event and composed by Chris Wormald followed by a twenty minute concert programme by the band4BR

World Cup history

Prior to numerous multi-million pound refurbishments, the Royal Garden Hotel is best known for hosting the 1966 England World Cup winning team celebrations.

On Tuesday it will welcome many senior Government figures to the dinner, sponsored by the British Educational Suppliers Association, at which security is expected to be particularly tight.

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