Friary Brass Band

Welcome to Friary Diary issue 57 - a one page monthly round up of news about the Friary Brass Band. NATIONAL FINALS: Friary made its seventh consecutive appearance at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 12th October to compete against 19 other top bands from England, Scotland and Wales in the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain. On a wet, dreary day there was an all day wait to go on stage, with the Band being drawn 17th: it was close to 5.00 pm before it was time

Friary made its seventh consecutive appearance at London’s Royal Albert Hall on 12th October to compete against 19 other top bands from England, Scotland and Wales in the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain. On a wet, dreary day there was an all day wait to go on stage, with the Band being drawn 17th: it was close to 5.00 pm before it was time to perform the set test piece, Hermann Pallhuber’s Titan’s Progress. The work was commissioned by Brass Band Oberöst

Welcome to Friary Diary issue 56 - a one page monthly round up of news about the Friary Brass Band. scaba AUTUMN CONTEST: Friary returned to The Hawth, Crawley on the last Sunday of the month for the scaba (Southern Counties Amateur Bands’ Association) Autumn Contest, defending the title won at the event last year. It was an opportunity to run out the National Finals’ test piece, Titan’s Progress, as well as hymn tune Angelus; the adjudicator was Tom Hutchinson, principal c