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September - Merchant Navy Day
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We were invited to play at Boston for the Merchant Navy
Association's VE/VJ 60th anniversary service. One of our members, who
recently left the band due to ill health is a member of the assocaition.
We played for half an hour before the service and foor the hymns; our
principal cornet also played Last Post and Reveille. We were short of
members due to work commitments, but it was one of the band's worst performances
for a long while! The hymns were nicely played, and Last Post and Reveille
were good, but the half hour before the Service was very poor .. back to the
rehearsal room!!
We have since had a letter of thanks, congratulations on the
playing, and a request to return next year.
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September - Ayscoughfee Gardens |
We joined the Royal British Legion Band Spalding in their annual
concert in Ayscoughfee Gardens, Spalding as part of the Garden's season of
concerts. Eight of our players took part with a number of players from
other bands in what was a very enjoyable concert. |
| An enjoyable concert at Fleet Church, near Holbeach. It was a dark and
wet night but we had a reasonable audience. Conditions in the church we
quite cramped but we were made very welcome. During the first half, the
band were quite nervous at times, but that improved for the second half.
We altered our season's programme (see below) by including a wartime medley of songs - 1914
March, Keep Smiling Through, and Pomp and Circumstance March No 1 (new
Bernaerts arrangement). The audience were invited to sing along. |
8 October
- Fleet Church
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October 2005 - Brass and Bells concert |
This was an excellent concert by the band at Holbeach Methodist
Church. We were joined by the Methodist Church Chimers (hand-bell ringers)
who performed in each half. The band's playing was a great improvement on
the Fleet concert and was one of the band's best performances in recent
times. It was basically the same as the Fleet concert, with a couple of
pieces taken out to make room for the Chimers.
The Chimers performed very well, and enlisted the help of our MD
on a couple of pieces.
The wartime selection was well-received and programmes were
waved flag-style in Pomp & Circumstance. The final item was the Steve
Cortland arrangement of Jupiter's Theme with the Chimers playing the
glockenspiel part. As an encore we played Is This The Way To Amarillo
which was very well received.
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November 2005 - Remembrance
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Remembrance Service at Holbeach St Marks. A
reasonable performance by the band. We play Last Post at the War
Memorial near the church then play in the church for the service.
The service did not follow the programme, but it cam out OK in the end! |
| 26 November
2005 - Weston Village Hall |
We were invited back to Weston village hall, having last
visited on 8 December 2000.
The concert was to test the new accoustics system installed in the hall,
which worked very well. Unfortunately very few of the local
inhabitants came to listen - a very disappointing concert, although played
quite well bt the band. |