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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

More red hot brass music music to keep you cool this Summer from Chris Helme in Yorkshire.

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  More great brass band music from Chris Helme

Sunday Bandstand: 15th July 2018

Produced and presented by Chris Helme. For further information please see www.chrishelme-brighouse.org.uk and follow the Sunday Bandstand links for this play list and previous shows dating back to 2014.

My website also has a review section and a brass band nostalgia section.

Your CD

Has your band produced a CD this year?

I would be very pleased to play tracks from it if you have. Or have you a burning nostalgia question about the world of brass bands, if you have then please contact me via e-mail: bandstand@chrishelme.org.uk

Go to:

https://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisHelme/sunday-bandstand-15-july-2018/

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

Colonel Bogey on Parade (Kenneth Alford)
Foden's Motor Works, Fairey Aviation and BMC Concert Band
MD: Harry Mortimer — (1967)

Tournament for Brass (Eric Ball)
Williams Fairey Engineering Band
MD: Roy Newsome — (1980)

Bouquet de Paris (arr. James McInnes Smith)
Lindley Band
MD: Neil Jowett

Lullaby of Birdland — A tribute to George Shearing (George Shearing arr. Gilbert Tinner)
Soloist Stephanie Wilkins
Cory Band
MD: Philip Harper — (2015)

Casino Dances Waltz (Emile Waldteufel)
Ransome Hoffman & Pollard Band
MD: Dennis Masters — (1972)

Bramwyn March (John R. Carr)
Rochdale Band
MD: Norman Ashcroft — (1977)

Three Band Mice — A Humorous Fantasy (Shipley Douglas)
Wingates Temperance Band
MD: Hugh Parry — (1966)

Nocturne from the String Quartet No. 2 (Borodin arr. Gordon Langford)
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — (1981)

Cottonopolis March (Charles Anderson)
Hanwell Band
MD: Eric Bravington — (1968)

'Little Russian' Symphony No. 1 Finale (Tchaikovsky arr. Major Peter Parkes)
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes — (1981)

Jubilate (Arthur W. Gullidge)
Soloist: John Chalker
Manchester Citadel Band
BM: Colin Wilson — (1991)

The Catskills (Nigel Hess arr. Philip Littlemore)
The Haydock Band
MD: Mark Quinn — (2013)

Golden Lady (Goff Richards)
National Methodist Youth Brass Band
MD: Mark Vause — (2002)

Belle Mahone- (John Philip Sousa)
Soloist: Brett Baker
Longridge Band
GMD: Michael Fowles — (2002)

Diogenes (Jacob de Haan)
Black Dyke Band
MD: James Watson — (1997)

Be Thou My Vision (James Curnow)
Soloist: Mark Vause
National Methodist Youth Brass Band
MD: N/Known — (2002)

Relay — Double Trio for Cornets and Trombones (John Golland)
Soloists: James Shepherd, David Read, Graham Walker Stan Priestley, Terry Hext & Ian Copland
Virtuosi Brass Band of Great Britain
MD: Maurice Handford — 1970s

Call of the Righteous (Leslie Condon)
Govan SA Band
BM: John Baillie — (1978)

Be a Clown (Cole Porter arr. Alan Fernie)
Lindley Band
MD: Neil Jowett — (2002)

Freikugeln Polka (Free-Shooting Bullets) (Johann Strauss arr. Howard Snell)
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Richard Evans — (2004)

The Saints — Traditional (arr. Goff Richards)
The Haydock Band
MD: Mark Quinn — (2013)

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

Enjoy the show....

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