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Newsletter March 2019
Fri, Mar 1, 2019
Contest Preparations
Excellent results in the last
two year’s national contest has earned Syston Band promotion to the Third
Section (banding’s version of the football league). A passer-by going past the
bandroom at the moment might be forgiven for thinking ‘I wonder why they play
that so often’. The answer is that for the national competition every band is
required to play the same piece of music. For 2019 the third section test piece
is Gustav Holst’s ‘First Suite in Eb’. Syston Band will be competing with this in
Oxford in February before the ‘big one’, the regional heats of the National
Championship (known in banding as ‘the Area’) in Kenilworth in March.
Syston
Band has been doubly fortunate recently to receive two financial awards. Syston
Town Council have given an £125 contribution towards the band’s Youth
Development Project.
Funding Grants
Charnwood Borough Council has awarded £3000 toward the
refurbishment of some of the band’s instrument stock. Brass band instruments
are an expensive commodity; for example, a Euphonium can cost over £6000 and a Bb Bass over £10000. However, a refurbishment costing a fraction of this can
extend the life of an instrument by many years. Syston Band provides
instruments, music and uniforms free of charge and is grateful to CBC for their
help in ensuring the availability of serviceable instruments for present and
future members.
Syston Band Chairman, Dave Houseman, told the Syston Town
News that the Band acknowledges the time and hard work that Committee Member
Derek Burden devotes to sourcing grants
Furthermore, the Band would like to express their gratitude
to Syston Town Council and Charnwood Borough Council for their generosity. In
particular thanks go to Councillors Eric Vardy, Ken Pacey and Tom Barkley for
their support and encouragement.
