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Radio: Sunday Bandstand 4th June

Chris Helme returns to the airwaves with another great show packed with brass band music.

Bandstand
  More great brass band music from Chris Helme

Sunday Bandstand: 4th June

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 is happy to play tracks and promote new CD recordings.

The show is played on nine UK community radio stations and four overseas; Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Galway, Ireland and direct to over 200 individual people around the world.

Also go to: www.radiochristmas.co.uk

Enjoy:


https://www.mixcloud.com/ChrisHelme/sunday-bandstand-4-june-2023/

Playlist:

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

Titan March
Gordon Langford
Leyland Vehicles Band
MD: Richard Evans

Main Street
Eric Ball
Cory Band
MD: Philip Harper

Deux Grotesques (Anthony Spurgin)
CWS (Manchester) Band
MD: Alex Mortimer

Arcana
Kevin Houben
1st Old Boys Bands Band
MD: Kevin Houben

Red Letter Day
Reginald Heath
Foden's Motor Works Band
MD: Rex Mortimer

Intermezzo — Playbox
Frederick Charrosin
Wigan Schools Band
MD: John L. Newbiggin

The Wee McGregor Patrol
Harry G Amers
Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band
MD: Trevor Walmsley DFC

Brass Band Blues
Ivor Gould aka Peter Yorke
GUS (Footwear) Band
MD: Stanley Boddington

Traffic Tangle
James Howe
Yorkshire Imperial Metals Band
MD: Trevor Walmsley DFC

Victors Return
William Rimmer
Luton Band
MD: Albert Coupe

Psalms and Alleluias
Philip Wilby
Black Dyke Band
MD: Dr Nicholas Childs

Adagio from Spartacus and Phrygia
Khachaturian arr: Gordon Langford
Sun Life Band
MD: Roy Newsome

Blue Goose from Iron Horse
Kevin McKee
Calliope Brass Quintet
New York

Love's Enchantment
Arthur Pryor
Soloist: Steve Walkley
Stars in Brass
MD: Major Peter Parkes

Tantalusqualen Overture
Franz von Suppe
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
MD: Derek Ashmore

Scottish Folk Song Variant
Stephen Bulla
Soloist: Derrick Kane
International Staff Band
BM: Dr. Stephen Cobb

Slaughter on 10th Avenue
Richard Rogers arr. Sandy Smith
Sellers Engineering Band
MD: Philip McCann

Slavonic March Op31
Tchaikovsky arr. Leonard Davis
Wingates Brass Band
MD: John Hudson

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

Enjoy the show...

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