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Radio: All Brass Radio

More fantastic music from across the pond from Dr Jim Fox

All Brass radio
  More great music from Dr Jim Fox across the pond....

Once again there has been a great deal of change to the All Brass Radio 'Top 20' list in the past month.

With a much more easily manageable 250 tracks, listeners are getting to hear many more pieces on a much more regular basis, and this has had a big effect on movements up and down the charts. Each month listeners get new musical experiences with the station — and more and more people are enjoying them!

All Brass Radio works hard to bring tracks from current CDs and to blend them with traditional favorites. The listeners voting on the website is a huge help. Also a large contribution comes from the bands that donate CDs.

Chart toppers

At the top of the list this month is 'Country Roads' played by the Las Vegas Brass Band. This track often makes the Top 20, but rarely as high on the list. It's testament to the idea that good melodies are lasting and enduring.

Meanwhile, across the Atlantic Ocean comes 'The Orient Express' played by the Paris Brass Band, which isn't the theme from the most recent adaptation of the famous Agatha Christie film, but a piece from the 1970's. It's great to see a wonderful European band being appreciated right at the top end of the charts.

That's always the case with the great Kirsty Abbotts — a brilliant player very well respected by the listeners of All Brass Radio. Kirsty sits in third place withher beautifully haunting rendition of 'You Raise Me Up'.

Other noteworthy tracks making a move this month are 'Bolero' by Brighouse & Rastrick off their recent CD, 'Tis a Gift' by one of the top US bands, Brass Band of Central Florida, and the short and funny 'Keystone Kartoon' by Hammonds Saltaire.

Always available

All Brass Radio is a commercial-free internet radio station that plays 'All Brass Bands, All the Time.'

The station is always available. The listeners can listen and vote on tracks at no cost as the station runs on donations. If you like listening to the latest and the best of the past brass bands tracks, please consider becoming a donor.

Listen in at www.allbrassradio.com

Top 20:

1. Country Roads (Las Vegas Brass Band)
2. Orient Express (Paris Brass Band)
3. You Raise Me Up (Carlton Main Frickley Colliery)
Soloist: Kirsty Abbotts (cornet)
4. Tis a Gift (Brass Band of Central Florida)
5. Bolero (Brighouse & Rastrick)
6. Quest Trilogy (International Staff Band)
7. 76 Trombones (Hammonds Saltaire)
8. Soundtrack Highlights from 'The Lion King' (Black Dyke)
9. Marriage of Figaro (Sun Life Stanshawe)
10. A Carmen Fantasy (Brighouse & Rastrick)

11. Great Gate of Kiev (Ever Ready)
12. King Cotton (Georgia Brass Band)
13. Festive Overture (Clacton on Sea Band)
14. Great Balls of Fire (Brass Band Willebroek)
15. A Pittsburgh Overture (Rigid Containers Group)
16. Gettysburg: Reunion and Finale (Atlantic Brass Band)
17. Festival March Celebration (Waitakere Brass)
18. Keystone Kartoon (Hammonds Saltaire)
19. Here They Come (International Staff Band)
20. The Lord of the Rings (Brass Band Willebroek)

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