Friary Brass Band

Welcome to Friary Diary issue 85 - a monthly round up of news about the Friary Brass Band. BEST OF BROADWAY CONCERT: It was billed as ‘The Best of Broadway’ and the audience certainly had their money’s worth of show tunes in an epic concert at a packed GLive on 26th March, with Friary accompanying the Guildford based Vivace Chorus under their conductor Jeremy Backhouse. Friary opened the concert appropriately with ‘Strike up the Band’, before MD Chris King handed the baton to

(pic. James Haigh) It was billed as ‘The Best of Broadway’ and the audience certainly had their money’s worth of show tunes in an epic concert at a packed GLive on 26th March, with Friary accompanying the Guildford based Vivace Chorus under their conductor Jeremy Backhouse. Friary opened the concert appropriately with ‘Strike up the Band’, before MD Chris King handed the baton to Jeremy for medleys from ‘Mary Poppins’ and ‘Carousel’. It was then time to showcase the Band aga