Thanks to you all for turning out for the concert at Bodelwyddan Church last night (Thursday 11th Oct)It looks as though we have raised over £400 for the Ronald McDonald House at Alder Hey. I think that everyone that attended enjoyed the music and on the whole I think that we played well. (Hey, what's a few bum notes among friends eh, MR SIMON JOHNSON)
I was very pleased with your turnout and I trying to arrange some more bookings for the band.
Thanks again.
I called a practise on the quad at Rhyl High School last evening (Sunday 17th June)so that we could do some playing on the march which some of us are not very good at. However, again, only the faithful few bothered to turn up. I wonder why I bother to spend my time doing detailed sheets with the times and dates of meetings all marked especially for you if you cannot be bothered to read.
If you'd rather not be a marching band then please say so. We do have a booking for Sunday 1st July which I hope you have all booked in your diaries. I would hate to have to let them down through lack of numbers.
I've updated the site slightly. The main changes are things that you won't see, but that make things easier to run.
The changes you will see are that the music audio files are now in groups making it easier to find senior and junior band music. You will also find that there are scales and arpeggios for brass, clarinets and flute up to grade 3 in the music section.
It was the Annual General Meeting of the band last night Thurs 10th May. Very poor turnout especially from the band members - I expected better.
Three awards were presented:
Most improved player - Main band - Simon Armstrong
Most improved player - Juniors - Cai Maitland-Davies.
Bandmasters special award - Richard Sherriff.
As members we have to raise our profile if we expect support from people.
There are three new files for Junior Band in the Audio section - Eye Level, and Parade Tunes: Men of Harlech and Pomp Busters (a medley of Dambuster's March and Elgar's Pomp & Circumstance Marches Nos 1 & 4). Right click on each file and choose "Save As..." to save it on your hard drive so that you can play them again and again...