Radio: Listen to the Band

More music and chat from Frank Renton at the BBC

More music and chat over the airwaves from Frank Renton at the BBC

Wednesday, 14 March 2018

Listen to the Band: 10th April

Frank Renton features some classic brass tracks. Kirsty Abbotts plays 'Mid All The Traffic, Lennon and McCartney find themselves mixed up with Edward Grieg in a Norwegian Wood. Foden's play 'Dunlap's Creek' and Black Dyke bring us some 'Bacchanalia'.

Listen to the Band: 17th April

Frank Renton and Tim Mutum celebrate anniversaries of Besses 'o th' Barn Band, the Co-op Funeralcare Band and a classic solo from the very dawn of brass band recordings made by Edwin Firth in 1914.

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