6 April 2008

Members from both Shanklin Town Brass Band and Shanklin Town Youth Band travelled to Hove for the SCABA Spring Contest.  The journey took three times longer than usual due to heavy snow along the South Coast, but fortunately the organisers were kind enough to delay the start of the Contest in order that we could participate.

The Band entered in the Youth/3rd section and also pitched themselves against 2nd section bands.

Click here for more details

30 March 2008

Youngsters from Shanklin Town Youth Brass Band have made a film to demonstrate the difference installation of heating and Disabled Access facilities has made to their experience of coming to Band.  Go to Work in Progress for further details

24 March 2008

Shanklin Town Brass Band hosted the 4th annual Wight Brass Competition on Sunday 23rd March

Visit Wight Brass for results and photographs

09 March 2008

Shanklin Town Brass Band return to the Island after a successful trip to Torquay to compete in the Regional Heats of the National Brass Band Championships.  They came 5th out of 20 Bands, their best ever placing.

4BarsRest, the internet Banding Site had this to say about the Band

"Shanklin Town had not travelled over the sea from the Isle of Wight to give anything less than their all at Saturday’s contest, and they did just that. After waiting all day to play (having drawn 20, and last), Shanklin gave an extremely confident performance of the test piece. Some of the players seemed to be incredibly young, but when listening this was not at all evident, as the sound of the band was easily one of the most balanced of the whole day.

The MD created some very nice shapes with the music, the solo euphonium had a lovely sound and the young chap on bass trombone will be one to watch out for in the future without a shadow of a doubt. Credit must also be given to the band’s percussion section, who really drove everything along and created a real sense of excitement in many places, and ensured the band’s effort ended with a bang (and together as well – something hardly any others actually achieved!).

There were several moments of tuning that was not quite 100% accurate, especially as the piece moved towards its conclusion, and the timpani on which the concert G was being played was horribly flat in places. These did not do too much to detract however, and 5th place was a fine reward for this band made up of mainly extremely young, but all extremely talented players."

For further details see the Competitions page

24 February 2008

Shanklin Town Youth Brass Band performed a special fundraising concert at the United Reformed Church in Shanklin on 23 February 2008.

Among the numbers they performed were The Great Escape, A Bridge Too Far, and Nessun Dorma.

Entrance was free, and the retiring collection in aid of the United Reformed Church raised £235.

Solos were performed by Ashley Wicks (The Lazy Trumpeter on Cornet), Emma Cusworth (Georgia on my Mind on Flugel Horn), Dan Reynolds (The Acrobat on Trombone) and Robert Bartlett (Nessun Dorma on Euphonium).

You can see the first number of the second half of the show here