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A full house and great venue saw BMP Europe Goodshaw pull out all the entertainment stops recently.

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The BMP Europe Goodshaw Band recently held a Big Band night at St Mary’s Chambers in Rawtenstall.

Full house

With a magnificent venue and a full house, the band entertained the audience with popular big band classics, such as ‘Mack the Knife’, ‘New York New York’ and the Robbie Williams classic, ‘Swing When Your Winning’.

Not your usual brass band concert, the band was aiming for a much more relaxed feel for the evening where the audience could feel free to get up to get food and drinks while the band played on.

Enjoyable

However, the audience attentively listed to all the pieces that the band played and according to their comments at the end of the night, had a thoroughly enjoyable evening.

The audience was treated to a solo performance of ‘The Lazy Trumpeter’ from solo cornet player Helen Toole, and ‘Misty’ from flugel horn player Gail Curran, whilst the trombone section of Edwin Leach, Amanda Tasker and Brian Daber entertained the audience with ‘Basin Street Blues’.

Instead of the usual applause at the end of pieces, some of the numbers ended with the sound of wolf whistles and even a scream at one point4BR

Cheering and wolf whistles

Instead of the usual applause at the end of pieces, some of the numbers ended with the sound of wolf whistles and even a scream at one point, showing the audience was very impressed with this different style of musical concert by a brass band.

The band had a guest conductor for the evening in Iain McKnight who did an amazing job of comparing and conducting for the concert.

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