Friary Diary - March 2017
STOP PRESS: REGIONAL HAT TRICK FOR FRIARY! Yes, we did it! There was a tense atmosphere right to the end on Sunday at the Stevenage Arts & Leisure Centre, with 12 bands competing for the London & Southern Counties Regional Champion Band title. The test piece, Herbert Howells’ 1935 masterpiece, Pageantry, may not be as technically challenging as some more recent works, and so left the field wide open (as happened in other Regions), yet it demands complete attention to detail.
