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Fulham Brass Band make the cover of the British Bandsman magazine – issue no. 5616 – 5 June 2010

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Fulham Band have returned from a highly successful Whit Friday weekend. The band performed at the Whit Walks on Friday morning in Mossley, before taking part in seven contests around Saddleworth and putting on a concert on Saturday afternoon.

The weather returned to its usual Whit Friday brilliance, and the band responded with a string of high quality performances. Continue reading “Fulham in Whit Friday Success!”

[singlepic id=626 w=110 h=160 float=left]Fulham Brass Band will again be putting on our annual free concert the day after Whit Friday. The concert will be held at the Grains Bar Hotel, Saddleworth, from 11am-1pm on Saturday 29th May. Continue reading “Fulham to Perform Annual Whit Friday Concert”

[singlepic id=624 w=150 h=110 float=left] H&F News, the local paper for Hammersmith and Fulham area visited Fulham Brass recently to report on the our Area qualifier win.

You can view the full article by clicking here

[singlepic id=625 w=160 h=150 float=left]London & Southern Counties Champions, the Fulham Brass Band performed a free concert at All Saints Church, Fulham on the 7th May. The concert programme covered some of the greatest and most important music in the history of the British Brass Band, as well as some of the best contemporary music written for Brass Band. The concert featured soloists Paul Lynch (trombone) and Justin Gulliver (Eb bass) Continue reading “A short history of brass band music”

You can now follow Fulham Brass Band on Twitter!

You can find us at http://twitter.com/fulhambrassband/

We’ll be tweeting about all our upcoming events, so you’ll always know where you can hear us next.

[singlepic id=563 w=120 h=90 float=right]On Saturday 20th March, Fulham Brass Band competed in the regional qualifiers in Stevenage and were placed FIRST! in a field of 14 similarly ranked bands! The test piece was Labour and Love by Percy Fletcher, a classic of  the brass band repertoire, and the first original piece of contest music for the genre being composed in 1914. Continue reading “Regional Champions 2010!”

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On 20th February, Fulham lent their services to ITV to help entertain the crowd’s at the Tonight programme’s “Kiss for a quid” event. Broadcast on 18th March, the event raised money for the Haiti disaster relief efforts. Continue reading “Kisses from Fulham Band”

[singlepic id=563 w=120 h=90 float=right]The Fulham Brass Band have now finalised the rehearsal schedule for the Area contest on March 20th. The set piece is ‘Labour and Love’ by Percy Fletcher and the score makes demands of a number of the band’s principal players:-

• Principal Cornet: Victoria Curran
• Solo Horn: Ally Crowther
• Solo Baritone: Louise Harrison
• Solo Trombone: Paul Lynch
• Solo Euphonium: Mike Dean

[singlepic id=217 w=120 h=90 float=right]Following the departure of Andrew Sladen from the band in January, an EGM was held in early February to appoint an interim Band Secretary. We are pleased to announce that Chris Wiggins has been elected to fill this very important role for the band until the Annual General Meeting in April. Ally Crowther has also been elected as interim Band Treasurer. Both will now work with the Chairman and MD over the next couple of months to put in place a plan to help the band to continue to develop during 2010.