Grimethorpe announce Regent Hall programme

Grimethorpe Colliery Band and Robert Childs have announced the programme for the Regent Hall Gala Concert which takes place at Regent Hall in Oxford Street, London this coming Friday, starting at 7.30pm

The programme will include the National Brass Band Championships test-piece Of Distant Memories and will also include the Finale from the William Tell Overture, Robert Redhead’s Reflections in Nature and Praise by Wilfred Heaton, with the finale being March from Pines of Rome by Respighi. In addition there will be a number of Grimethorpe principals performing solos.

Tickets for the Gala Concert and all other festival events can be purchased by telephoning +44 (0)1223 234090 or +44 (0) 7710 505689. The full festival schedule is as follows:-

Thursday 10th October 7.45pm

Regent Hall Band and Regent Hall Songsters.

Soloists: James Fountain and Anthony Smith

Friday 11th October 12.30pm

Royal Greenwich Brass Band

2.30pm

Total Brass Quintet

5.00pm

The National Test-Piece Seminar

Edward Gregson gives an illustrated talk on the 2013 National Finals Test-Piece

‘Of Distant Memories’ (Music in an Olden Style)

7.30pm

Gala Evening Concert

Grimethorpe Colliery Band conducted by Robert Childs