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Radio: Yorkshire Brass

David Hoyle presents plenty of great brass band music from the heartland of Yorkshire...

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Yorkshire Brass:

Yorkshire Brass is weekly programme available online every Monday.
Email your requests to david.hoyle@bbc.co.uk

Follow us on twitter @YorkshireBrass

Live broadcast available weekly on Sunday afternoon from 1pm BBC Radio Leeds 92.4FM, 103.9FM, DAB digital and 774AM
or BBC Radio York 95.3FM, 103.7FM or 104.3 FM

Click here for the latest programme on the BBC I-player

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001d74g

Sunday 17th July:

Hammonds Sauce Works Band
Those Magnificent Men in Their Fying Machines
Ron Goodwin

Black Dyke Band
Queensbury
James Kaye

Black Dyke Band
Le Domino Noir
Auber

Marsden Silver Prize Band
The Paragon
E. Sutton

BNFL Band
Let’s Face The Music and Dance
Irving Berlin

Stanhope Silver Band
Seventeen Come Sunday
Ralph Vaughan-Williams

Cory Band
King of Pop
Michael Jackson arr Sandy Smith

Black Dyke Band
Deep Harmony
Handel Parker

Jim Hayes and Scottish Funeralcare Band
Concerto for Trumpet
Harry James

Thoresby Colliery Band
Songs of the Quay
Goff Richards

In the second hour:

Highlights of the youth section of the recent Brighouse march and hymn tune contest

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York and London on the horizon for North West Area contenders

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Regent Hall Concerts - Royal Greenwich Brass Band

Friday 27 February • Regent Hall. (The Salvation Army). 275 Oxford Street. London W1C2DJ


Regent Hall Concerts - Oompah Brass XXL

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Regent Hall Concerts - Royal Greenwich Brass Band

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Regent Hall Concerts - London Central Fellowship Band

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Regent Hall Concerts - Regent Hall Band of the Salvation Army

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Dobcross Silver Band

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West Wycombe Brass Band

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Croy Silver Band

March 1 • Croy Silver Band currently has contest vacancies on Cornet and Percussion, but is always happy to accommodate enthusiastic new players in any section of the band.


John Durrant

MA LLCM TD CertEd (Dist)
Conductor, Band Trainer, Composer, Trumpet and Cornet Soloist, Arranger, Adjudicator


               

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