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Summer Concert "Heroes and Villains" - Sunday 2nd July 2017
Our Summer concert went down well with the appreciative audience and the sunny weather definitely seemed to help. Once again we gave members of the audience the option to sit within the band during specific pieces of music for them to see and hear what a musician's chair is like. This definitely seemed to go down well especially with many of our younger generation. We had Save the Children, our charity partner for this year helping out with different activities alongside the concert, including face painting, with "wonder-woman" being a huge favourite, a raffle and cakes and snacks, where the donations went towards the work of our charity for this year, Save the Children. We also were joined by Music for Mortimer in collaboration with Kingsclere Guitar Society who preformed a mesmerising set of pieces, all eyes on the performers! |
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Mortimer Fun Day - Saturday 1st July 2017
Band members were on hand to help children and adults trying out a range of musical instruments on our stall at the Fun Day. There were trumpets, trombones, baritones, horns, recorders, clarinets, saxophones, flutes and a whole host of different percussion instruments for people to try. See more photos from the day on our Gallery page. |
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Listen to our World Premiere of Highdays and Holidays!
Hear the WORLD PREMIERE of Highdays and Holidays: The Mortimer Revel, which was written especially for South Berks Concert Band by Philip Sparke, and performed in Mortimer during our 40th Anniversary year here
Hear the WORLD PREMIERE of Highdays and Holidays: The Mortimer Revel, which was written especially for South Berks Concert Band by Philip Sparke, and performed in Mortimer during our 40th Anniversary year here
Rhineland Tour 2017
On 27th May we set off from Reading by coach and ferry to travel to Boppard in Germany for our 5 day Tour. We had 3 full days in which to explore the towns along the Rhine, including enjoying a river cruise from Boppard to St Goar.
We performed 3 concerts over 3 days in 3 different towns: Rüdesheim am Rhein, Linz am Rhein, and Boppard. The weather was rather warm, with us playing in over 30C heat on the first two days, so we were very grateful to find both shade to play under, and a cool refreshing drink provided for us on each of those days.
See photos from the tour on our Gallery 2017 page.
On 27th May we set off from Reading by coach and ferry to travel to Boppard in Germany for our 5 day Tour. We had 3 full days in which to explore the towns along the Rhine, including enjoying a river cruise from Boppard to St Goar.
We performed 3 concerts over 3 days in 3 different towns: Rüdesheim am Rhein, Linz am Rhein, and Boppard. The weather was rather warm, with us playing in over 30C heat on the first two days, so we were very grateful to find both shade to play under, and a cool refreshing drink provided for us on each of those days.
See photos from the tour on our Gallery 2017 page.
Our Easter egg hatched a different instrument!
Look what happened to our Easter egg - it hatched into a beautiful mini Eb clarinet to join our regular Bb Soprano and Bass Clarinet section! Did you spot it during our summer concert in Mortimer on July 2nd 2017!
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Charity Partner of the Year 2017 - Save the Children Kennet Branch
The band are delighted to be partnering the Kennet Branch of Save the Children in 2017, with the aim of creating further awareness of the important work Save the Children undertake both locally and nationally. At the same time, we hope to bring more people together to enjoy live music and raise funds for this charitable cause. |
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Spring Concert "Best of British" - 25th March 2017
Once again at Kennet Valley Free Church in Calcot we travelled all over the UK in a varied selection of pieces, including the beautiful 'Perthshire Majesty' and 'Harlech Variants' as well as 'Pirates of Penzance' and 'Elizabethan Serenade'. We visited London in 'Congestion Charge', which has a part for a 'STOP/GO' sign, and 'London Eye', then to Liverpool for a selection from the Beatles. As usual there were lovely cakes in the interval, where the donations went towards the work of our charity for this year, Save the Children, whose representatives helped during the evening, told us about their work and received a collection at the end. |
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