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After a year’s break, the
SCABA Workshop came back into town, that town
being Cranleigh, and a great day was had by all.
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Mid Sussex Youth Brass
Band took first place in their
section of the Mid Sussex Competitive Music
Festival.
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96
guests at a surprise Party to celebrate the 90th
Birthday of Gerallt Hughes.
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The Charles Church Camberley Band together
with The Abbey Junior School Choir and Holme Grange School
Ensembles were very well received when they entertained an
audience of 340 including the Mayor of Surrey Heath, Councillor
Patricia Pearce.
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Sandhurst Silver Band is pleased to announce that it has
appointed Ian McElligott as resident Musical Director.
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The next Quartet
and Ensemble Contest will be with us in a little over three
months. It will be held at Ringmer Community College, near
Lewes, East Sussex, on Sunday 17th February 2008. The
facilities at the College are good, with free parking on
site. Food will be available, as well as the usual storage
and warm up facilities. There's even a good pub just across
the road!
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LGB Brass has
raised £100 for breast cancer research. Band members
donated the money at their Wear It Pink rehearsal last week
(Thursday October 25th). They wore pink shirts, ties,
hats, socks, nail varnish, glitter, tinsel, wigs and
buttonholes. Musical Director, Ian Stewart, even had a
pink baton for the occasion.
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The
Cobham Band is deeply saddened by the loss of one of its
most beloved members, Ruth Smith.
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Alder Valley are pleased to announce the
appointment of Roger Burke as their new Musical Director.
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Sandhurst Silver Band is pleased to announce that it
will be taking part in the SCABA Autumn Contest at
Folkestone on 14th October, playing in the First Section
under the direction of Ian McElligott.
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This year
sees the return of the annual SCABA workshop, which
on this occasion will be for the benefit of bass
players, of the Eb and the Bb variety. If you have
been to any of our workshops before, you will know
that we have welcomed some of the greatest names in
banding to our events, and this year is no exception
as we welcome Steve Sykes to Surrey.
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Yesterday's
Canbury Gardens Concert was our Euphonium player Colin
Ball's farewell outing with the band and after 19 years of
loyal service he will be greatly missed.
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It is with
great regret that Sandhurst Silver Band announces
the resignation of its MD Mr Roger Burke. His
appointment as Musical Director in 1995 followed a
highly successful 20-year musical career in the
British Army.
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Chichester City
Band, under their MD John Williams, has just
recorded the incidental music for the play 'Hobson's
Choice' which runs from 27th July to 1st September
at Chichester Festival Theatre – a first for the
Band.
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On Saturday 4th August, LGB Brass and Friary Guildford Band combined forces to present the 5th Proms in the Paddock concert in Lewes, East Sussex.
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Before playing 'Happy
Birthday' and raising their glasses to toast
Ken's 80th Birthday the Band played 'Born Free',
one of Ken's favourites and Ken conducted the
Band playing 'Abide with me'.
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The Whit Friday
Marches, Uppermill 2007
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SCABA is pleased to announce that it has engaged David Hirst
to adjudicate at this year's SCABA Autumn Contest, at
Folkestone.
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Southern Counties Amateur Band Association (SCABA) is pleased to announce that the 2007 SCABA Autumn Contest will be taking place at the Leas Cliff Hall and Channel
Conference Centre, in Folkestone, on 13th & 14th October 2007.
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LGB Brass won five trophies at the Wight
Brass 2007 contest on the Isle of Wight last weekend (April
8 2007) on Easter Sunday.
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The
first two Southern Counties Amateur Bands Association (SCABA)
Peggy and Bob Tucker Memorial Bursaries have been awarded to
Patrick Clark, of Wantage Silver Band, and Oliver Brooks, of Mid
Sussex Brass. They will both be attending this summer’s course
of the National Children’s Brass Band.
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Under the direction of Matthew Key, younger members of LGB
Brass achieved a hat-trick in winning the Youth Quartet at
Ringmer this year.
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Summary of
SCABA Quarterly meeting.
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In his report to a well attended Annual General
Meeting of the Sandhurst Silver Band on 22 February,
the outgoing committee chairman, Tom Burrell, had
ample opportunity for congratulations.
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SCABA
would like to invite your band to take part in two of the most
popular brass band contests in the South of England, namely the
SCABA Spring Contest and the SCABA Entertainment Contest. Both
of these events are long established and enjoy the support of
bands from near and far.
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