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Radio: Bandstand

More great music to enjoy from Michael and Val Fryer in Teesdale.

 

Bandstand
Bandstand for Brass and Military Band Music
Broadcast on Radio Teesdale (South West Durham) on 102.1 & 105.5 fm
and online: www.radioteesdale.co.uk

Sunday 1.00pm – 2.00pm, repeated Friday evening 10.00pm – 11.00pm
Music, news, reviews, interviews, results and diary dates.

Produced and presented by Michael & Val Fryer

Michael can be contacted on 07917 694 588 or e-mail: michael_fryer@hotmail.com

Postal address for CDs, diary dates etc. – M. Fryer, Bandstand, Bowes, Co Durham, DL12 9LU

Friday 3rd September:

A documentary on the Durham Miners’ Gala

Sunday 5th September at 1.00pm, repeated Friday 10th September at 10.00pm:

Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Salvation Army Int. Staff Band

Stanhope 1998
Stanhope Silver Band

Scarborough Fair
Tongwynlais Temperance Band

Derby Day
H M Royal Marines

Russian Sailors’ Dance
Brighouse & Rastrick

Zurich March
Buy as you View Cory

Traffic Jammin’
Canadian Brass

Mexican Hat Dance
Sellers International

Eriskay Love Lilt
Whitburn Band

African Funk
Royal Nova Scotia Int. Tattoo Band

Carnival of Venice
Foden’s Band

It’s a long way to Tipperary
Band of Irish Guards

Trafalgar Square
Honourable Artillery Company

Old Father Thames
Blues and Royals

Barnard Castle March
D L I Burma Band

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