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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Plenty of great brass band music from Chris Helme.

Presenter Chris 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

Sunday 29th April:

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

Quality Plus (Signature March)
Fred Jewell
Hammonds Saltaire Band
MD: Morgan Griffiths — 2011

Mill on the Cliff
Carl Gottlieb Reissiger — arr: W Rimmer
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: George Thompson — c: late 1960s

Moon River
Henry Mancini — arr: A. Fernie
Fodens Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2011

Partita 2nd Mvt (Choral & Variations) and 3rd Mvt (March)
Edward Gregson
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: James Watson — 2004

Golliwogs Cakewalk
Debussy
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Gary Cutt — 1999

Grandfathers Clock
George Doughty
Tenor Horn Soloist Alex Crisp with
Clifton and Lightcliffe Band
MD: John Clay — 2011

Rule Britannia – Overture
William Rimmer
Carlton Main Frickley Colliery Band
MD: Robert Oughton – 1970

Premier Solo
Jean Baptiste Arban arr: Gary Westwood
Cornet Soloist Russell Gray with
Leyland Band
MD: Michael Fowles — 2008

Flourish and Dances
Kevin Norbury
International Staff Band of the Salvation Army
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb — 2011

Battle Royal
March Fred Jewell
Sun Life Band –
MD: Roy Newsome — 1979

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

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