Former London Mayor Ken Livingstone recently gave the keynote speech at last Saturday’s Durham Miners Gala and was very impressed with the event.
He said that if he won the next London Mayoral election he would bring the Gala procession to London and have the banners and brass bands marching along Oxford Street — all 48 of them!
The day's music making can be heard again on 'Bandstand' presented by Michael and Val Fryer.
Bandstand:
presented by Michael & Val Fryer on Radio Teesdale 102.1fm & 105.5fm in County Durham and on the Internet: www.radioteesdale.co.uk
Friday 16 July at 11.00pm
Interviews with Peter Moore, Steve Goodwin (organiser of the Doctor Martin Bequest Brass Band Contest at Gala Theatre, Durham Saturday 17th July), Johann Johannsson, Pee Wee Ellis, founder of Funk
Shaune Eland (Durham Youth Big Band)and Rob Jordan (RAF Squadronaires)
Reviews of concerts at the Durham International Brass Festival
American Patrol – RAF Squadronaires
Cute – Fishburn Band
Soul Pride – Pee Wee Ellis & German Radio Orchestra
Norwegian Wood – London Brass
Don’t sit under the apple tree – RAF Squadronaires
Fanfare for St Edmundsbury – London Brass
Freikugeln – Brass Band Aid Celebrity Band
