A lively audience joined the band on Friday 18th January for the first concert of the year. it was also the first opportunity to buy the new band CD 'Deva MMVII - The City of Chester Brass entertains'....

The concert was at St Paul's church in Helsby and Phil Mott. put on a great programme, featuring many of the tracks on the new CD. The programme also included a debut solo from Chris Clowes on Tuba, and from Rob MacDonald on cornet.

Taking part in the concert was Gord Tapp, visiting on business from Canada, who played solo cornet and thoroughly enjoyed his time in the UK!

Checkout our photo-gallery for photo's of the evening.

The Friday Night Music concerts could be held in your local church. The band will charge no fee, but ticket sales are slpit equally between the band and church. Contact us if you're interested - and can drum-up a good sized audience!

the CD is yours for just £8 :) A bargain!

The CD can now be bought online - despatched to your home address...

go to http://www.chesterbrass.co.uk/mainband/cdpreview

to listen to clips and go to http://www.chesterbrass.co.uk/shop

to buy :)

The training band aimed for £1,000 to be raised over the Xmas outings - and the news is just in from Tony......

the total was £1,147...... well done! We're well on the way to our training band tour in March! Merry Xmas.

Yep, Heathcotes confirmed that 11,500 revellers had passed by the training band over Xmas - being welcomed to their evening festivities at Chester racecourse! Some audience :)

One of our 'giggle' of trombones in the training band is celebrating distinction at grade 2 :) Alice Gooda, taught by our resident brass tutor Peter Dalton.

Congratulations Alice!

It won't be too long before Alice and Libby will be ready to give the main band a try, but until then we are still looking for another main band trombone player....

Friday saw the training band playing for the race course revellers.... and Sainsburys bag packing on Saturday. Saturday night took thev main band to a charity concert at Hamilton Street methodist church - in aid of Callin Court, the band playing for free - raising over £350 for Callin Court.

On Sunday the band entertained the territorial army at Fox Barracks. Checkout the new 'blue' Euph player in the photo gallery.(and enjoyed a very pleasant Xmas lunch!) before heading over to the Hospice of the Good Shepherd for the annual tree of light service.

This Friday the band is at St Luke's church in Dunham Hill for the final Xmas concert - the training band at the racecourse Weds, Thurs and Saturday before the annual carolathon at Saughall church on Sunday night. They're then out the following week at the racecourse Thurs/Fri finishing Xmas on Sunday 23rd Dec in the Grosvenor shopping precinct... the final main band outing is Fri 21st - carols at Boughton Heath.

Merry Xmas.....

The Cd's now gone off to the production company... should be available in January. You can register for more info by email to [email protected] and we'll let you know when it's available....

Thanks to Sainsburys in Chester - and the brave shoppers who allowed the training band to pack their shopping last Saturday. The merry band - including Tony and Ian (crisps at the bottom, potatoes on top....) collected £313 :) towards the first tour to be held in 2008.

Due to the busy Xmas period there are no main band orTB rehearsals until Jan 7th)

However the band(s) are very busy so here's the latest:

Fri 7th TB racecourse 6.30 for 6.45 play (wrap up warm)

Sat 8th TB (plus) Sainsburys Boughton, Back Packing/small group playing 2-5pm

Sat 8th MB Hamilton Street Methodist Church (charity concert) 7.30 play

Sun 9th MB Fox Barracks 12.30 play (to 14.30) includes lunch!

Sun 9th MB Backford Hospice of Good Shepherd 3.30pm to play before the 4pm service (from say 3.45ish) Bring warm clothes!

Wed 12th TB racecourse

Thu 13th TB racecourse

Fri 14th MB St Luke's Dunham Hill 7.30pm play

Sat 15th TB racecourse

Sun 16th TB/MB Saughall carols 6.30 play

Thurs 20th TB racecourse

Fri 21st TB racecourse

Fri 21st MB small group Broughton Heath Carols 6.30 play

Sun 23rd TB Grosvenor precinct 12:30 to 3:30ish

Please check times before turning up. Main band is uniform plus straight band ties. Training Band is wrap up warm under band fleece and decorate instruments!