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1st Young Boys?

1st Old Boys are now planning for the future with a bit of help form their new Young Boys — and Girls!

 

The 1st Old Boys Band has made sure it is planning well for its long term future by forming its own 1st Old Boys Youth Band — which is full of both young boys and girls!

Resounding success

Mark Bingham told 4BR: "The launch has been a resounding success, and on the first night, 21 young musicians, aged between 7 and 14, turned up — most of them never having played a brass instrument before."

Mark added: "Before the end of the night though they had gone through a special arrangement of 'Bohemian Rhapsody', 'Slaidburn' and a couple of hymn tunes, and the feedback from the young stars was overwhelmingly positive — they loved it and couldn’t wait to come back next week!"

The launch has been a resounding success, and on the first night, 21 young musicians, aged between 7 and 14, turned up — most of them never having played a brass instrument beforeMark Bingham

Fourishing

Now the band is flourishing and has 23 members — 14 cornets and trumpets, 3 tenor horns, 3 tubas, 1 trombone and 2 baritones!

Fodens

Last weekend the band went to see Fodens who were playing in Armagh and 28 parents and kids enjoyed a brilliant concert and were thrilled to to meet some of the Fodens stars such as Mark Wilkinson and Lelie Howie.

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