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West Bergholt Concert Band – Mozart to Miller and more !

2009 turned out to be the band’s busiest year ever year, and rehearsals are already well underway for our 2010 concerts. We start the year with a concert of music ranging from “Mozart to Miller”, such as The King And I, ComedyTonight, Glenn Miller In Concert, Over The Rainbow, Tiptoe Through The Tubas,Neil Diamond and Mozart Suite, most of which are new arrangements you won’t have heard elsewhere.

  • Sunday 28 th March – 3:00pm – West Cliff Theatre, Clacton (in aid of Rotary)
After that, we’ll be performing our first ever concert at the East Anglian Railway Museum, with a programme themed around “A Little Travelling Music”. It’s an unusual and atmospheric venue, so come along to hear some obvious choices such as Night Train, Chattannooga-Choo-Choo, Clear Track Polka, Drive My Car, and The Locomotion, as well as some slightly oblique references…Cats (The Old Railway Cat), The Flower Duet (used in the British Airways Advert) and Hootenanny (Arkansas Traveller)…you get the idea !
  • Saturday 24 th April – 7:30pm – East Anglian Railway Museum
For our summer concerts, we’ve been asked to reprise last year’s “Last Night Of The Proms” concert with the Cavender Singers after it proved to be one of our most successful & popular events ever :
  • Sunday 13th June - 3:00pm - West Cliff Theatre , Clacton (in aid of Rotary)
…and we round off the first half of the year with a concert at another new venue, with music including Porgy & Bess, Send In The Clowns, Capriccio Espagnol,The Magic Flute and A Tribute To Elvis :
  • Saturday 10th July - 7:30pm – St Peter’s, Ipswich
As always, new members are always welcome, so come & see us any term-time Friday evening at Heathlands school if you’d like to join up or check us out. There’s no audition, and the band’s uniqueness is that we have players from 7 to 70, so there’s always someone younger/older/worse/better than you…plus it’s great fun, and is one of the best ways of improving your playing. Everything you need to know about the band (including concert details & directions, how to buy tickets, and how to join us) is on our website (www.wbcb.org), or you can call Graham on 01206 824157. We look forward to seeing you at some of our concerts…and wish you a belated happy new year !