Celebrity soloists have been the main feature of Flookburgh Band's sell out concerts in recent years.

However, on Saturday the band took the opportunity to demonstrate it has star quality soloists of its own in an event which raised over £2,000 for the Liver Transplant Unit at St James' Hospital, Leeds.

Highlights

Band secretary Tony Hornby, fully restored to health after a transplant last year, had organised the concert in which the band, under musical director John Iveson, played to a packed audience at the Victoria Hall, Grange-Over-Sands.

Highlights of the show were a duet and three solos. Husband and wife team Adrian and Diane Turner (soprano cornet and flugel horn) combined for 'Pie Jesu' and tenor horn soloist Trevor Garnett played a modern arrangement of 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'.

The concert concluded with perhaps the most thrilling piece in the band's current repertoire, an up tempo arrangement of Bach's 'Toccata in D Minor'4BR

Classic

Euphonium soloist James Rowlandson produced a bravura performance of variations on 'Blaydon Races', while his father Mitchell delighted the audience with the classic trombone solo 'The Acrobat', with added reprises of all the other solos thrown in for comical effect.

The concert concluded with perhaps the most thrilling piece in the band's current repertoire, an up tempo arrangement of Bach's 'Toccata in D Minor'.