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Newstead on match day form

Newstead Brass lead the way with innovation and fireworks in home town.

Newstead
 

Newstead Brass showed that they’re leading the way with innovative performances as they provided an integral role in a major outdoor community theatre production of, ‘Not Much Matches Mansfield’ last weekend.

Celebration

Jon Tams, songwriter for the National Theatre production of ‘Warhorse’, acted as musical adviser to the production, written by Kevin Fegan with music by Ian Carter.

‘Not Much Matches Mansfield’ celebrated the town’s past, present and future, with six separate scenes performed at five outdoor venues and was presented as part of the Mansfield Arts Festival supported with funding from Arts Council England and the National Lottery.

Huge audiences followed the action in a ‘promenade’ production which took around 3 hours from start to finish4BR

Huge audiences

Huge audiences followed the action in a ‘promenade’ production which took around 3 hours from start to finish, with the finale on Mansfield market place featuring the band with a 60 strong cast from the Mansfield Palace Community Theatre Group and a choir of up to 80 local school children.

Up tempo

On the Saturday evening the band lit up the Derbyshire skies as part of the annual Ripley Music Festival ‘Proms in Crossley Park’.

Around 2,000 people enjoyed a varied up-tempo programme concluding with a firework display accompanied by the band in a new transcription of ‘Zadok the Priest’ by David Oswin.

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