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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More great music Chris Helme in Yorkshire — and which now reaches New Zealand too!

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 2.00pm to 4.00pm

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

New Zealand

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

Listeners in New Zealand will be pleased to hear that this programme is now also played on www.worldfm.co.nz in Wellington at 2p – 4pm (NZ time) every Thursday.

The programme will soon be also available in the Yorkshire Dales area, details of that start will be announced later.

Requests

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

30th September:

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

Pateley Bridge March
Roy Newsome
Hepworth Band
MD: John L. Turner — 1999

Mill on the Cliff
Carl Reissiger
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
compilation track from the 1970s

Mexican Holiday
Arr: Alan Fernie
Trinity Girls Brass Band — 2006

Sirocco
Peter Graham
The Household Troops Band
BM: Carl Saunders — 2010

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's
John Williams Arr: Steve Sykes
Scottish Coop Band
MD: Ray Tennant — 2004

Concerto for Trumpet
Harry James
Cornet Soloist Alan Morrison with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band — 2004

Harlequin Patrol
Leighton Lucas
Black Dyke Mills Band
Major George Willcocks — 1959

The Londonderry Air
Traditional
Whistling Soloist David Morris with the Scottish Coop Band
MD: Ray Tennant

Jupiter from The Planets
Gustav Holst Arr: Stephen Roberts
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr. Nicholas Childs — 2008

Tonight from West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein Arr: Barry Forgie
Foden’s (Courtois) Band
MD: Nicholas Childs — 1998

O Fortuna from Carmina Burana
Carl Orff — Arr: Klaus van der Woude
Sellers International Band
MD: Phillip McCann
Organist Simon Lindley — 2004

Le Petite Suzanne
Arthur Pryor Arr: Bram Gay
Trombone Soloist Ian Bousfield with the Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr Nicholas Childs — 2006

Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Franz Liszt Arr: W. Rimmer
Kings of Brass
MD: James Scott — 1997

The Way We Were
Marvin Hamlisch — Arr: John Golland
Cornet Soloist Wilf MacDonald with the West Yorkshire Police Band
MD: Barry Thompson — 1997

Horbury
George Marshall
Boscombe Salvation Army Band
MD: Howard Evans — 2008

Trouble Shooters
Derek Broadbent
Canny Brass (Switzerland) — 2011

Rule Britannia
John Hartmann
Cornet Soloist James Shepherd with the Kings of Brass
MD: James Scott — 2000

King Solomon’s Mines
Rodney Newton
Cory Band
MD: Dr. Robert Childs — 2009

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

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