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Radio: Yorkshire Brass

Plenty of music to get you through the Festive period thanks to David Hoyle.

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Yorkshire Brass:

Yorkshire Brass is a 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 18th December:

Oberaargauer Brass Band
A Christmas Celebration
Arr Howard Lorriman

Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Midnight Sleighride
Ray Farr

Harrogate Band
The Carollers
R E Holz

Cory Band
Russlan & Ludmilla
Mikhail Glinka

Brian Evans & Wingates Band
Intermezzo
Mascagni

Brighouse & Rastrick Band
Marching Through Georgia
Goff Richards

Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Mistletoe & Wine
Strachan/Paul/Stewart

Yorkshire Building Society Band
Caribbean Christmas
Sandy Smith

Black Dyke Band
O Holy Night
Adolphe Adam

Yorkshire Imperial Urquhart Travel Band
Santa Claustrophobia
Sandy Smith

Cory Band
The Christmas Song
Torme

Brass Band Aid Celebrity Band
Do They Know It’s Christmas?
Geldof/Ure

Black Dyke Band
Gaudete
Alan Fernie

Black Dyke Band
Simoraine
Clive Barraclough

Maurice Murphy & Leyland DAF Band
Love on the Rocks
Arr P Sparke

Solid Brass
It’s a Sin
Tennant/Lowe

Roberts Bakery Band
Grand March from Tannhauser
Richard Wagner

Royal Doulton Band
Music Box Dancer
Mills

Band of the Salvation Army
The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy
Arr Kevin Norbury

Brighouse & Rastrick Band
O Come All Ye Faithful
Arr Ray Woodfield

Rothwell Temperance Band
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
J Styne

Brighouse & Rastrick Band
Stop the Cavalry
Jona Lewie

Besses Boys Band
Christmas Crackers
Ray Woodfield

Brighouse & Rastrick Band
As With Gladness Men of Old
Arr Ray Woodfield

Royal Doulton Band
Mary’s Boy Child
Hairston

Thoresby Colliery Band
A Christmas Festival
Leroy Anderson

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