Don’t miss the Seaton concert!

Training Band debut

The band will be breaking new ground on Friday 7th October, with a Grand Concert in Seaton Town Hall in aid of band funds and the Parkinson’s Society.

Following a very successful summer season on Marine Parade in Lyme, they are bringing their popular brand of entertainment to a wider local audience. Throughout July and August, the band entertained thousands of holidaymakers with their wide range of styles. This concert will feature much of the music enjoyed during the summer and there is bound to be something to suit all tastes.

Principal Cornet player Peter Hurdwell will be showing his expertise in his own interpretation of the ‘Post Horn Gallop’, whilst band Chairman Paul Snowball will demonstrate his agility on the E flat bass in ’Tuba Smarties’, a piece guaranteed to amuse the audience.

The programme includes a musical tribute to one of the brass band world’s greatest musical arrangers, Seaton resident Gordon Langford, who plans to be present. During a distinguished musical career, Mr Langford enjoyed a close association with the BBC, for many years contributing arrangements for Radio 2’s ‘Friday Night is Music Night’ as well as performing on the piano. In recognition of his contribution to brass band music, the band will play his arrangement of the Welsh march ‘Men of Harlech’.

A new training band was formed in January under the direction of Nikki Herbert and they made their debut at the popular St George’s Day concert in Lyme. They also performed on Marine Parade in the summer and this concert will mark their third appearance in public.

The compere for the evening will be Seaton’s own Mary Bowles, well-known locally for her involvement in drama and music. Mary will be bringing her warm and friendly style to the evening’s proceedings and will be contributing some songs of her own, with an invite for the audience to join in such classics as ‘There’ll always be an England’ and ‘Rule Britannia’.

To round off the evening, what finer and more fitting finale could there be than ‘Land of Hope and Glory’? The audience will be invited to join Mary and the band to end the evening in true patriotic, ‘Last Night of the Proms’ style.

This is definitely a concert not to be missed! It begins at 7.30 p.m. and tickets are available from Seaton Town Hall Box Office, open Monday to Saturday from 10 -1 daily, from any band member or by telephoning 01297 442719. There will also be a licensed bar and raffle.