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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More selections of great brass band music from Chris Helme.

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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 8th April:

Rhythm and Blues
Philip Sparke
Opening for weekly show Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2010

Danse Espagnol
Tchaikovsky arr: Ken Smith
Brass Band Rijnmond
MD: Anno Appelo — 2010

Comedy Overture
John Ireland
The Virtuosi Band of Great Britain
MD: Eric Ball — 1975

Klezmorim
Sandy Smith
Tuba Soloist Joe Cook with the
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2010

Whitworth Veterans March
Arr: Dr. Roy Newsome
Whitworth Veterans Band
MD: Dr. Roy Newsome — 2010

Music Box Dancer
Frank Mills
Royal Doulton Band
MD: Edward Gray — 1970s

Fiesta
Peter Graham
Trombone Soloist Andrew Newell with the
Household Troops Band
BM: Major John Mott — 2008

Trauermarsch from Gotterdammerung
Wagner arr: Peter Koster
Brass Band Rijnmond
MD: Anno Appelo — 2010

Credo
Lorne Barry
Brass Band Willebroek
MD: Frans Violet 2009

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

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