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Bridgewater helps Maisy Rose

The audience at the Great Northern Brass Arts Festival dug deep into their pockets not just to listen to brass bands.

Bridgewater Hall
 

The audience at the recent Great Northern Brass Arts Festival dug deep into their pockets not just to listen to the selection of bands on show at Bridgewater Hall.

Help

During the day Natalie Brindle and her collegue Nikkie Quinn worked their socks off collecting donations for the The Maisy Rose Project to help a little girl who has acute health problems.

The good banding folk dug deep to the tune of £1,234.86 and the family are said to been 'absolutley delighted' by the generosity shown4BR

Dug deep

The good banding folk dug deep to the tune of £1,234.86 and the family are said to been 'absolutley delighted' by the generosity shown.

Thanks

Natalie who was also supporting husband Gareth who plays baritone with Black Dyke.

She told 4BR: "We would like to say a great big thank you to everyone who was so kind to donate to the appeal. It has meant such a lot to the family and to Maisy — we can't thank people enough."

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