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British Koreans Veterens Association - Service & Concert - Sunday 5 July 2009 (16/06/09) The Band will be playing for the BKVA Eastern Area Renunion on 5 July 2009 at the Greshams Sports & Social Club, Tuddenham Road, Ipswich. There will be a service at 12.30pm where the Band will play hymns then at 3.00pm we will be giving a concert of around one and a quarter hours. Band members please go to Members Area - Up & Coming Events for information. Harwich Festival Concert (09/06/09) The band will be opening the series of evening concerts for the Harwich Festival 2009. The Concert will be held at St Nicholas Church, Harwich on Friday 3 July at 7.30pm. CD Recording Photos (09/06/09) A set of photographs taken at the CD recording weekend may be seen in the Gallery under 'The Band - CD Recording'. Tour de Tendring (06/06/09) On Saturday 6 June a combination of players from the main band and music school performed an hour long 'concert' at the Tour de Tendring event outside the leisure centre in Dovercourt. A bit of a breezy day but considering the weather of the previous few days at least it was dry and warm(ish). The band played a set of popular and lively pieces in mood with the event. A set of photographs of the band taken at the event may be seen in the Gallery under 'Concerts'. Portsmouth Concert Photos (04/06/09) See a collection of photos taken at the Joint Concert - Portsmouth 2009 in the Gallery under 'Concerts'. CD Recording (01/06/09) The band, over the weekend of 30 & 31 May, recorded its first CD - to be titled Brassed Off in Harwich. It was a hard but rewarding weekend with 16 tracks being recorded. The CDs will be available for sale around August. Joint Concert in Portsmouth (16/05/09) Over the weekend of 8-10 May the band teamed up with the RBL Victory Brass Band in Portsmouth culminating in a joint Concert held in St. Mary’s Church in Fratton, Portsmouth where we helped raise £1000.00 for the Poppy Appeal. The concert was well attended with an audience of over 200. London & Southern Counties Regional Contest - 2009 (30/03/09) Sunday 22 March saw the band at Stevenage Leisure Centre for the London and Southern Counties Regional Brass Band Contest. The test piece - 'The Talisman' - was certainly a challenge. The band drew to play tenth place out of a cast of sixteen bands. The band played well and came fifth at the end of the day - a placing well deserved. Well done to the band for a good and sound performance. Read the 4barsrest retrospective comments here VERY DISAPPOINTING (16/02/09) Our Apprentice Band, that meets as part of our Saturday Morning School, had been working very hard over the last 5 weeks preparing music, much of it new to our young members, for a new venture. We had been invited to join Haverhill Youth and Community Band as their guests along with Fulbourn and Teversham RBL Youth Band, in a 'Youth Band Festival' to be held at Haverhill Arts Centre on Sunday 15th February at 7.30pm. The Band travelled yesterday afternoon from Harwich to Haverhill for a massed bands rehearsal which proved to be very exciting and gave us all a taste of what a fantastic show of youth talent this was going to be. Unfortunately the town of Haverhill suffered a power cut at just after 7pm which resulted in the concert having to be cancelled. We all travelled home 'very disappointed'. A BIG THANKS to Di Pannell for organising the Festival-we are looking forward to hopefully a repeat planning of this event. Also many thanks to all the parents who committed their time for ensuring their children attended rehearsals and the concert. A DELIGHTFUL EVENING (07/12/08) Antony Sanders, Head of the Saturday Morning School, would like to thank everyone involved, for a Fantastic concert of Christmas Music Saturday 6th December given jointly by the Music School Band and Harwich Salvation Army Corps :- "Well done to all the performers your confidence is growing all the time which shows in the ever improving performances. A big thank you to all the teachers and staff without whom the music school wouldn't function. Hopefully what you witnessed last night will make you all proud of your achievements and realise how much impact you are all having on these children's lives whether it is through teaching them or just being around to mentor and encourage. Well done and long may you all continue. To George Warren the compere, who helped make last night such a fun evening, he's always been so supportive of the band and is someone who would like to involve more. Thank you to our 'sound engineer' Debbie who undertook the job in such a professional way with what can only be described as dodgy equipment!!! Thank you to Barry and his team at the Salvation Army for hosting us and making the evening such a success, I certainly hope this will be the first of many occasions we link together. Finally the biggest thanks must go to Georgie Cooper-Keeble who not only came up with the idea but saw it through, putting in a huge amount of time and effort and helping to raise £150.00 towards the running of the Music School. Thank you Georgie from all of us. I'll finish by wishing everyone connected with the music school a really happy Christmas break, and look forward to seeing you all in the New Year". ««« ««  1 | 2  »» »»»