The Band gave its annual concert in aid of Demelza Hospice on Saturday 12th October. The venue, as usual, was St. Dunstan’s Church in Cranbrook and it was attended by a sizeable and very enthusiastic audience. The first half of the concert consisted of a trip down memory for me with many of the MD’s […]
Two years on from our fantastic concert with Trombone Maestro, Chris Thomas (See report), it was time once again to feature a guest soloist for our annual fundraiser concert supporting Demelza. This year we were very excited to announce that our guest for the evening of the 14th October would once again be from the world famous Cory band, and this time would be their Principal Cornet player, Tom Hutchinson.
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The band was delighted to perform once again for the Friends of St. Dunstan’s. This year it was during the afternoon of Sunday 25th June and the temperature in the church was hovering around a sweltering 28o C. The Senior Band and the Training Band both performed excellently to a good sized and extremely appreciative audience, with six
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On Saturday 8th October, St. Dunstans Church in Cranbrook was once again filled with the sound of brass music as the evening saw the band take to the stage for our annual fund-raising concert in aid of Demlza Hospice Care for Children. While this year was not to feature a world-famous guest soloist, the band
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Sadly our last proper concert of the year at St. Dunstans Church was cancelled due to the spread of the new Omicron Covid variant, but prior to this the band were able to perform two Christmas concerts at Brede and St. Laurence (Hawkhurst) Churches. Thanks to a couple of audience members we have some mobile
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The band was both delighted and honoured to once again lead Cranbrook’s Remembrance Parade. Having been cancelled in 2020 due to the Covid pandemic, on the day there was a large turn out in the town – not just in the parade itself, but also amongst the people lining the streets. Prior to the Parade,
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The band played on Deal Memorial Bandstand on Sunday 19th September and gave its first bandstand concert since the summer of 2019. It was exciting and quite emotional for us all to be making music and performing in front of a large and enthusiastic audience once again and there were more than a few nerves
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“I conducted Cranbrook Town Band in its first concert since December 2019 earlier this afternoon. I’m sure that it applies to musicians everywhere, but it’s really difficult to put into words quite what this means to all of the band members. The band played really well – far better than I could have expected and,
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When there are restrictions on your favourite pastime due to government Covid guidelines, it makes it doubly hard to cope with lockdown rules. There is no doubt that our weekly rehearsals and summer concerts contributed to a healthy mind and soul, helping many of us to unwind after a hard week of work. While a
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