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Thornton ready to welcome you to BBE online programme

David Thornton will leading a free on-line session on 'Finding the Music in a Melody and Developing the Expressive Tool Box' — so make sure you book in now.

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  David Thornton will lead the BBE session tonight

In this week's instalment of Brass Bands England's (BBE) Development Programme Online, Grimethorpe Band conductor and euphonium virtuoso David Thornton will present a session entitled; 'Finding the Music in a Melody and Developing the Expressive Tool Box'.

David's free webinar will discuss bringing musicianship to music and developing expressive tools to improve your performance.

Link up

The event will take place on a Zoom webinar for those who want to get involved and ask David questions directly, as well as being available as a Facebook live video on the BBE Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/brassbandsengland

The webinar will take place on Thursday 16th April, starting at 7.00pm (BST).

All the workshops are free but BBE is asking participants to consider supporting the Brass Bands Emergency Fund with what they think sessions are worth.

To support the emergency fund, please go to https://www.chuffed.org/project/brassbandemergencyfund where you can also grab one of the donated perks.

The fund is also able to accept gift aid to make your donation go further for those bands who could not normally use gift aid.

Sign up

To sign up to the zoom webinar please go to: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/4915857549861/WN_tBSL_-Z-Rwy895-TsqFjGA to register

There are only 100 spaces you will need to be quick as over 70 are already taken!

During the session, Zoom attendees will be able to ask questions sent in via the registration form. The workshop will begin with a short presentation on how to use the Zoom platform effectively to get the most out of the workshop while participants get used to the set up before starting at about 7.15pm.

The webinar will take place on Thursday 16th April, starting at 7.00pm (BST)BBE

Pub talk

The sessions will finish with participants being able to switch on their webcams and come to the 'BBE Pub' and have a general chat amongst themselves to meet, share ideas and collaborate! So have a drink (or a cuppa!) ready for the end of the session!

The BBE Development Programme Online has lined up experts from across the brass band world every Thursday for at least the next nine weeks to lead webinars straight to your living rooms on subjects covering almost every conceivable element of banding.

The workshops will be delivered online using the Zoom webinar platform so attendees can interact and ask questions throughout the session directly.

Facebook

The session will also be available on Facebook live on the BBE facebook page https://www.facebook.com/brassbandsengland and BBE facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/BrassBandsEngland/ for which users can sign up to for free.

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