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Songs of the Quay CD
Back in February 2008 the band released their debut CD labeled ‘Songs of the Quay’ and has proven to be very popular with our regular audiences and followers!
We still have a good stock of CD’s available for purchase. For more information or to obtain your copy
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Massed Bands Concert & Spring Festival
Following our recent visit to the Sage, Gateshead last month we are set to perform at the wonderful venue again later this month along side the famous Brighouse and Rastrick Band and our local friends The Durham Miners Association Brass Band (Formerly Broughton’s Band). The massed band concert is to be directed by Ray Farr and feature a number of brass band classics.
We look forward to Ray Farr visiting our band room in Lamesley over the next couple of weeks to take us through the concert program in preparation.
Please visit www.thesagegateshead.org to order your tickets before you’re too late!
In the meantime we are also preparing for the Spring Festival at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool on the 15th May where we will be competing for the Senior Trophy. This year the set test piece is Le Roi d’Ys by Edouard Lalo arr. Frank Wright.
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'The Sounds of Felling'
Last month saw the band performing at the local concert venue The Sage Gateshead presented by The Mayor of Gateshead. The night was a return from last year’s charity concert where we joined our local friends The Felling Male Voice Choir to raise money for Help for Heroes, A.D.D.E.R (Action for Dystonia, Diagnosis, Education and Research) and the Mick Knighton Mesothelioma Research Fund.
Our Musical Director Graeme Tindall compiled an American themed program which featured a lively start in Leigh Bakers arrangement of All Night Long by Lionel Richie. This soon grabbed the attention of the audience and was followed by the rest of our American repertoire.....
All Night Long
Feeling Good
Cornet Soloist: Wil Earl
Oklahoma
Summertime
Flugel and Cornet Duet: Stacey Ghent (Flugel) and Kate Malcolm (Cornet)
Indiana Jones
Beauty and the Beast
Trombone Soloist: Mal Gill
Magnificent Seven
Be my Love
Euphonium Soloist: Jeremy Belton
America
Encore: New York New York
The concert was great success and was concluded with an honor of thanks and acknowledgement to the charities by Mayor of Gateshead, Councilor John Eagle.
More recently the band performed at the Gateshead Visitors Centre in celebration to St Georges Day. The band was delighted to be invited back once again this year to perform a series of popular concert items concluding with the old favorite ‘The Floral Dance’ which left everyone with a smirk on their face!
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North of England Brass Band Championships 2010
Following weeks of a committed hard working band and an enduring conductor, last weekend brought the annual North of England Band Championships. This gave the band to fight for a qualification spot for the National Championships in London later this year.
This year the band was faced with George Lloyd’s ‘English Heritage’. The piece which is approximately 17 minutes long features a considerable amount of technical work and bold lyrical sections with testing features for each of our soloists.
Drawn number 3, the band responded well to Musical Director, Graeme Tindall’s reading of the piece and put forward a solid performance in which adjudicator John Berryman placed us in 4th spot.
Unfortunately we did not quite manage to qualify this year however we will continue with our hard work for the up and coming concerts over the next few weeks. Our next contest will be the Spring Festival in May at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool where we will be competing for the Senior Trophy.
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New Management
The Felling Band are pleased to announce the appointment of John Dixon as Band Manager. Previously the manager for the Felling Male Voice Choir, John knows exactly what is required of a good Manager. The band would like to express its deepest thanks to Phil Rutherford who has put a great amount of time and effort into the role over the few years.
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