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Smithills set for new release

Smithills School Senior Band has just finished recording its latest CD.

Smithills recording
 

Smithills School Senior Band has been busy recording their latest CD ahead of their forthcoming tour to Ireland later this month (above).

Under the baton of MD Chris Wormald they recorded tracks such as 'Knight Templar', 'Star Wars', 'When We Were Young', 'The Lord Bless You And Keep You', 'Rusalka's Song to the Moon', 'Jubilation' plus many more for a release that will be due out in the Autumn.

The band never ceases to be astonishing in its individual and collective levels of performance and the finished results will undoubtedly be outstandingMD, Chris Wormald

Uplifting

Chris told 4BR: "Once again all the players rose superbly to the stiffest of musical and stamina challenges for any standard of band, and it resulted in the most uplifting of recording sessions.

The band never ceases to be astonishing in its individual and collective levels of performance and the finished results will undoubtedly be outstanding."

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