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Radio: Sunday Bandstand

Plenty of great music to enjoy from Chris Helme this week — with some great playing across the banding world.

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  More great music making over the airwaves with Chris Helme

Sunday Bandstand 23rd August 2020

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.

The show is always open for questions, requests and we are always happy to play tracks and promote your new CD recording.

Check out my website for duplicate and triplicate CDs I am selling to make room for new ones arriving. Having bought 350 from the US.

Click this link: https://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisHelme/sunday-bandstand-23-august-2020/

Playlist:


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

A British March Parade
(The President, Simoraine, Barnum & Bailey, The Melody Shop)
Brass Band Froschl Hall
MD: Hannes Buchegger (2012)

Three Figures
Herbert Howells
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: Dr. David Thornton (2019)

One Fine Day from Madam Butterfly
Puccini arr. Gordon Langford
Soloist: Philip McCann
Black Dyke Mills Band
MD: Major Peter Parkes (1985)

What a Wonderful Day
Andreas Homlund
Melbourne Staff Band
BM: Ken Waterworth (2019)

Brass Ablaze
Goff Richards
Foden's (Courtois) Band
MD: Nicholas J. Childs (1997)

Valse Bluette
Richard Drigo/Raphael Mendez arr. Mark Freeh
Soloist: Trevor Groom
Rigid Containers Group Band
MD: Bramwell Tovey

Brass Band Boogie
Edrich Siebert
Canny Brass
MD: Ronald Frischknecht (2009)

The Vikings
Philip Sparke
Eikanger Bjorsvik
MD: Howard Snell (1997)

Waltzing Matilda
Arr. Robert McAnally
Kew Band
MD: Mark Ford (2000)

Little Suite for Brass No. 1 (Op 80)
1. Prelude; 2. Siciliano; 3. Rondo
Sir Malcolm Arnold
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Elgar Howarth (1993)

Australians in Song
Barrie Gott
Digeridoo Soloist Stephen Bond
Vocalist: Mark Ham
Brisbane Excelsior Band
MD: Howard Taylor (2005)

The Prayer
David Foster & Carole Bayer Sager arr. Alan Ramsey
Soloists: Jim Hayes and Paul Kiernan
Cooperative Funeralcare Band
MD: Michael Fowles (2013)

Tone Poem: Everywhere
Marcus Venables
North York Temple Band
BM: Glenn Barlow (2013)

Roccata
Darrol Barry
Brass Band Willebroek
MD: Frans Violet (2008)

The Lost Chord
Arthur Sullivan arr. Gordon Langford
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: Allan Withington (1993)

Nobody Does it Better
Marvin Hamlisch arr. Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Shepherd Group Brass
MD: Richard Wilton (2018)

Nightingale Dances
Matthew Hall
Tredegar Town Band
MD: Ian Porthouse (2012)

Greensleeves
Arr. Howard Snell
Leyland Band
MD: Philip Harper (2011)

Havah Nagilah
Arr. Alan Fernie
Brighouse & Rastrick Band
MD: David Hirst (2005)

Rolling Thunder
Henry Fillmore
Brass Band of the Western Reserve
MD: Dr Keith Wilkinson (2007)

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

Enjoy the show....

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