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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More brass band music on the airwaves from Chris Helm in Yorkshire

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Sunday Bandstand:

Broadcast on Phoenix FM 96.7 community radio in the Halifax area of West Yorkshire. This programme is also available via www.phoenixfm.co.uk Every Sunday afternoon from 2pm to 3pm

Produced and presented by Chris Helme or further information please see: www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk

It is also available via Podcast from the Radio Phoenix website.

I am always pleased to receive requests – you might want to hear a piece from your own early days in banding, recordings that have long since joined the record deletions list and difficult to find.

Or have a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Sunday 18 March:
Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke

Opening for weekly show
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

La Russe — March
William Rimmer
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
MD: Jack Atherton — 1969

Home of Legends
Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2010

A Jewish Wedding
Hugh Verweij
Delta Brass Zeeland
MD: Luc Vertommen

Skater Waltz
Emile Waldteufel
Fodens Band
MD: Rex Mortimer — 1969

Gresford
Robert Saint
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Philip McCann — 2008

Black Domino Overture — Auber
Rochdale Band
MD: Norman Ashcroft — 1974

The Paragon
Edwin Sutton
Cornet Soloist James Shepherd
with the Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Roy Newsome — 1969

Flying Fingers (Cornet Feature)
Goff Richards
Ensemble de Cuivres Valaisan (Switzerland)
MD: Gregoire Dubons — 1987

A Carmen Fantasy
George Bizet
arr: Gordon Langford
Williams Fairey Band
MD: James Gourlay — 1997

Creswell Crags — March
Harold Moss
Creswell Colliery Band
MD: Ernest Woodhouse — 1965

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke Ending for weekly show
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles – 2010

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