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Summer connections for Friary

Friary Brass Band has been making new links within its local community as they look forward to the second half of the contest year.

Friary
  The band has been keen to connect to new audiences

Friary Brass has been busy over the Summer period ensuring that they are ready for the resumption of the second half of the 2024 contest year — one that sees them return to the Royal Albert Hall National Final in October.

Informal approach

The London & Southern Counties band recently gave a well-received midweek summer concert at its rehearsal venue, Chertsey Hall — one which thanks to its deliberately informal approach attracted new listeners to hear them perform.

They were able to enjoy a varied programme that ranged from Piazzolla's 'Oblivion' to Lionel Ritchie's 'All Night Long', with a Harry Potter medley, a couple of circus marches, 'Rockall' from their 2023 Brass in Concert programme and Bach's 'Toccata in D minor' amongst the musical goodies.

Delighted

Chairperson David Wicks told 4BR that everyone was delighted by the response. "It was a good way to link with new people and we were encouraged that they wanted to find out more their local brass band.

Attracting new audiences is always a challenge for bands, but we now know more local people now want to be engaged with us in some way."

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