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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Chris Helm has plenty of great music on the turntable this week.

Helme
 

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

1st April:

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke

Opening for weekly show
Foden's Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

The Defenders
Ray Creswell
Boscombe S A Band
BM: Howard Evans — 2011

Trio Concerto for Brass Band
Dennis Wright
National Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: Roy Newsome — 1995

Episode for Horn
Peter Graham
Tenor Horn Soloist Sheona White with the
Enfield Citadel S A Band
BM: James Williams MBE — 2002

Un Poco de Salsa
Julien Roh
Ensemble de Cuivres Valaisan
MD: Jean-Francois Bobillier — 2011

Light Cavalry
Franz von Suppe arr: Greenwood
Massed Bands Britannia Building Society; Leyland DAF and Williams Fairey Engineering Bands
Guest Conductor Harry Mortimer — 1990

Flying Scott
Grant
Cornet Soloist Willie Barr with the
Scottish CWS Band
MD: Robert Oughton -1967

Deep Inside the Ancient Temple
Bizet arr: Keith Wilkinson
Trombone Duet — Soloists John Maines and Maxwell Thornton with the
Kings of Brass Vol 1
MD: James Scott — 1995

Energy
Robert Simpson
GUS (Footwear) Band
MD: Stanley Boddington — 1971

Match Rhythm
Jan Bosveld
Brass Band Oberosterrich
MD: Hannes Buchegger — 2005

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

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