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Band News
Presentation Evening
Over 120 players, family and friends attended this years Awards
Presentation Evening held on Saturday 27 November at the County
Hotel in Carnforth; and a very grand occasion it was. The glitz and
glamour of an Oscar night would have been hard pressed to beat such
an event! Our compere for the evening was once again the
irrepressible Tony (The
Bow Tie) Thackray, with the prizes being given out by MD Chris (The
Tie-less) Larder.
There were in excess of 100 musicians taking part from many different local bands, and the whole day culminated with the 1812 Overture, complete with exploding balloon (the canons were considered a fire risk in The Platform!) Many members of the public took the opportunity to select music for the band to play, conduct and even play. Our thanks go to everybody that contributed to the Children in Need Fund and for supporting us on the day. A special thanks must go to Pudsey for coming to visit us personally, to the BBC for filming part of the occasion, but particularly to all the band friends, helpers and organisers, Ian Burgoine for the masses of hard work in organising the event and to our compere for the day Tony (The Tambourine) Thackray. Congratulations to MD Chris Larder and Solo Cornet Chris Blaylock for sharing the conducting and even finding time to play as well. The local hospital did not report any strained conducting arms or numb lips! although Chris L did report not being able to lift his arm above shoulder height.
Lifeboat
Appeal in E flat (Back to the
Top)
Eb Bass player PC Neil Pigott, who joined the band a few weeks ago,
appeared on Radio Lancashire on Wednesday 20 October to give details
of his quest to raise funds towards the "House for the Hover"
appeal, the fund raising for a new home for the Morecambe RNLI
Hovercraft. Well done Neil for playing the whole 10 hour Children in
Need Blowathon stint to collect money for the appeal. For more
details follow the link to
www.morecambelifeboat.org
Bob Childs, the world
famous Euphonium virtuoso was on top form during the concert on
Saturday evening (25 September). He played a total of 4 superb solos
and one duet with his former pupil and our own conductor, Chris
Larder, all accompanied by the band. Both audience and band where
treated to a impeccable display of musicianship which must surely be
unrivalled anywhere in the world. Under 16 Free to All Concerts (Back to the Top) In another initiative to encourage new young players to the band we are offering all Under 16's free entry to all of our concerts. Brass Academy Launch (Back to the Top) The Brass Academy was launched this week (Saturday 11th September) to try to capture as much local music talent and maintain the high standards the band has set itself. In ground breaking style the band is offering brass instrument tuition, use of an instrument, music and insurance free of charge to any young (or not so young) players. In addition, Parents and Carers are given a pack to detail all the information they require to support a new player and handy hints to allow the player to practice and perform at their best. The turn out was magnificent at the launch on Saturday and we now have a stunning 33 new players including 12 that signed up at the weekend. Even better news is that we still have space for at least 9 more people. To the pictures of the opening day follow "Pictures" The academy offers 12 tutors for the different player levels and also offers regular master classes which will include a broad variety of topics from basic practice and techniques to the advanced "tricks" used by the countries best virtuoso. In a real coup for the band John Miller from the Royal Northern School of Music has offered to take a master class on a regular basis. The Morecambe Brass Band Association runs an Authorised Child Protection Policy The academy runs every Saturday morning 09:30 to
12:30.
The winner of the Logo Competition was announced in The Visitor
Newspaper on Thursday. For details follow the link to our Competition page.
Morecambe Brass Band
were playing on the Promenade on Sunday 5 September when it was
noticed that the drum kit was melting. No, this isn't a story from
the Sunday Sport, it actually happen. Those present say that Drummer
Colin Hendra was playing too loudly causing the damage, but this was
denied but the player's lawyer!! Sponsor Required (Back to the Top)
You may have noticed we are no longer
sponsored by Lancashire Life group, after a very successful 3 year deal,
in fact we have no sponsor at present. If your company or organisation
would like to sponsor the band please email to
morecambeband@hotmail.com.
Morecambe Band has
been so successful in recent years that is has changed its name to
the
Morecambe Brass Band Association.
This is an umbrella association to cover all the various facets the band
has at its disposal.
COMING EVENTS.... Christmas Concert (2 nights) 17-18 December 2004 - The Platform, Morecambe Ticket are on sale NOW
MORECAMBE YOUTH BAND BREAKS NEW GROUND Membership of the Youth Band is completely FREE. FREE INSTRUMENT, FREE MUSIC, FREE TRANSPORT, FREE INSURANCE, FREE TUITION .... ALL COMPLETELY FREE! No hidden charges... yes, it's just too good to be true. Just check it out for yourselves
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The Morecambe Brass
Band Association and musical friends were out supporting Pudsey Bear for Children in Need playing for a gruelling 10 hours between 11am and 9pm on
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