Well, I haven't complained that there has been much to write about!! Covid19 has certainly mucked up our scheduled year. I don't know about you, but I had everything marked out on our yearly calendar - great hopes and expectations for band play outs, regional and national contests... Well, I filled those in January... And as each month passed with increased cases of people with Covid19, and then a lockdown unheralded before New Zealand and the world came to a standstill. Online playing thanks to Malcolm Barr and Te Reo inspiring people to have a go at online recordings in groups and individually. Fortunately I live in a family of four and we all play enthusiastically and keep each other entertained. Lockdown has not been so easy for students and families with children at home.
Alas, we managed a play out at Hamilton Gardens with the Senior Band in February... and our second was a play out to friends and family held on the 15th of September. Thanks to Richard Lummus for recording our pieces which we can re-watch here in these links:
1953 by NZ composer: Fraser Bremner
Bass in the Ballroom featuring soloist Leighton Ginever
We gratefully had Mason Elliot from Hamilton City Brass (Senior Band) observe our performance and adjudicate us as would have happened at contest. Unfortunately Auckland had a second lockdown and with that we said goodbye to contesting up there.
Coming up... We have a play out coming soon... November 7 at Morrinsville Market Day & the Morrinsville Santa Parade 12 November 2020.
The band Prize Giving is on November 7, who will be section of the year? Most improve and highest attendance for the year? The theme: Around the World...
At the start of the year you were an uninvited guest to our shores... Here's hoping New Zealand can flick Coronavirus in the ear and say goodbye and good riddance.
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