The Aldbourne Band is now hard at work preparing for Wychavon Contest<https://www.festivalofbrass.co.uk/home.html> plus a series of concerts through Autumn, after a busy summer season which culminated in our inaugural appearance at the British Open. The first outing is our upcoming “Night at the Movies” concert on the 28th Of October in St Michael’s Church, […]
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“There is the surprise performance of the day. Debutantes Aldbourne deliver a super performance, faithful to the score, but also showing some depth of understanding, subtlety and confidence and vigour when needed. Let’s see what the judges made of that. For me, it was thoroughly impressive.”
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The Aldbourne Band would like thank the many people from the all around the world in the banding movement and our loyal supporters who have congratulated us on our performance at the Grand Shield held at Blackpool’s Winter Gardens. We are delighted to have qualified for the UK’s premier brass band event, The British Open
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The inaugural Aldbourne March Contest will be held on Saturday August 4th 2018 at the Green in Aldbourne! This forms part of the “Aldbourne Music and Song Festival” during the Villages’ community music week. Adult and Youth Bands of all levels and experience from around the surrounding counties will be invited to take part in
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Well done to Flowers Band and Woodfalls Band on their qualification for the National Finals – we know you will represent the West of England well! We were disappointed with 5th this year, but were proud of our performance. Special thanks to Glyn Williams for all his help in preparing us and also David Thornton
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The Aldbourne Band have decided to embark on a change of musical direction and leadership for 2018 and are currently reviewing and assessing professional conductor options. The band would like to thank David Johnson for his tremendous contribution as Musical Director over the last 8 years. During this time he has been instrumental in improving
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At the National Finals in October, we had two father and son combinations – Lionel and Luke Barnes, along with Shaun and Harry Mundy. Lionel has been a long serving member of the band and shares his recollections from 1961 when more family connections were represented within the band …. Lionel has entitled his memories
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The band are returning home today after a fantastic day at the Royal Albert Hall. We would like to say a huge thank you to everyone who supported the band – especially the Friends of Aldbourne Band who gave us a fantastic reception as we came on stage and support us throughout the year. Well
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Come and listen to the Band as we make the final preparations for our historic appearance at the Royal Albert Hall for the National Finals The rehearsal will take place in St Michaels Church, Aldbourne, Tues 4th October starting at 8pm and entry is free. Come and go as you please.
This evening it was the turn of the percussion section to arrive at rehearsal early for some extra practice on the National Finals test piece “Journey of the Lone Wolf”. Percussion figures quite heavily in this test piece and is just as important a section as the rest of the band.
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