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Radio: Touch of Brass

More great music at a new time from Martin Upfold and Julie Hedges over the next two weeks.

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  The show is now on at a new time.

The Touch of Brass programme is hosted by Martin Upfold and co-presenter Julie Hedge is on the air each week on Community Radio Station Swindon105.5.com at 5.00pm — 6.00pm.

Not only can you tune in each week and listen to a new programme, you can also repeat things on 'Catch Up' too.

Martin Upfold

Martin's family banding roots lie with Pelton Fell Band, now the NASUWT Riverside Band with whom his grandfather and great grandfather both played.

He started to play on Eb bass aged 13, and went on to play with Swindon Youth Band, the Swindon Young Musicians Club, Swindon Concert Brass and Aldbourne Band.

He returned to Swindon Band and continued to play with them under the late Francis Cowley. He also had time to fit in playing with the Wessex RAF Voluntary Band and went on to play again with Swindon Pegasus Brass.

He started to work with Community radio station Swindon105.5 in 2008 presenting 'A Touch of Brass' which you can hear between 6pm & 7pm every Sunday evening.

In 2020 he was diagnosed with Parkinsons but has maintained his programme ever since, much to the delight of listeners around the banding world who listen in every week.

Welcome

Martin welcomes listeners every Sunday between 5.00pm & 6.00pm on Swindon105.5 or (FM)105.5, on the App, Now on Digital,

Go to www.swindon1055.com and click on 'Listen Live', or if you missed the show y, click on 'Catch Up'.

You can also leave a message to get a track played at martin.upfold@swindon1055.com or info@swindon1055.com (putting your message c/o A Touch of Brass) or telephone Swindon105.5 between 10am — 3pm, Monday — Friday on 01793 611555 and leave a message.

Sunday 15th February:

5.00pm — 6.00pm

Ceremonial March from Aida (Verdi)
Band of the Coldstream Guards

Pomp and Circumstance March No.4 (Elgar)
Band of the Coldstream Guards

Demelza (Nash)
Swindon Brass
Soloist: Duncan Mead

Rondo from 4th Horn Concerto (Mozart)
Yorkshire Imperial Metals

Hava Nagila (Trad)
Carlton Main Frickley Collier

Flight of the Bumble Bee (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Black Dyke Band
Soloists: Robert & Nicholas Childs

On the Town (Bernstein)
Eikanger Bjorsvik Musikklag

The Rose (McBroom)
Band of the Harwich RBL

Elizabethan Serenade (Binge)
The Lost Chord (Sullivan)
Black Dyke Band
Huddersfield Choral Society

March from A Moorside Suite (Holst)
Grimethorpe Colliery Band

Sunday 22nd February:


Bandology (Osterling)
Yorkshire Imperial Metals

Overture to Mack & Mabel (Herman)
Aldbourne

Brilliante
Foden's Band
Soloist: Glyn Williams

A Trumpeter's Lullaby (Anderson)
Miss Blue Bonnet (Simon & Smith)
Brighouse & Rastrick
Soloist: Roger Webster

633 Squadron (Goodwin)
Central Band of the Royal Air Force

The Hustle (McCoy)
Williams Fairey

Benedictus from the Armed Man (Jenkins)
Cory

Don't Cry for Me Argentina (Webber/Rice)
Williams Fairey

You Raise Me Up (Loveland)
Reg Vardy Band

Love Divine
Praise My Soul The King of Heaven
Grimethorpe

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