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Re: Question of the Day

>Okay, I was thinking after David's goodbye that he wrote, and after reading
>about Roy's band playing for the dying lady, instead of rehearsing for
their
>next event at the nationals - let's have a Question of the Day.
>
>What is the best or most gratifying band engagement you've done?
>Be it a contest, concert, ad hoc performance, or whatever.  Or even perhaps
>if you've met someone who said some words to you that made an influence on
>your music?


Here is my story,

A couple of years ago I had a phone call from a local radio DJ desperate to
find a brass band to play at a sell-out (900 people) "Children in Need"
charity concert in Salisbury City Hall that he was organising. The reason
for his desperation was due to the fact that he had been let down by his
regular band and the concert was in just three days time. The concert was
the variety type with lots of other acts and the band would have to fill a
15-minute slot.

I put it to the band but all we could muster was about 12 players and no
conductor and no time to rehearse. We decided that we would put our
reputation on the line and give it a go. We selected some pieces that we all
knew very well and before we went on stage we worked out how we would start
each piece and turn the tricky corners, anyway, in short it was the most
scary musical experience of my entire life where the expression "brown
adrenaline" really is an accurate one.

There is a moral of this story, however, as the DJ was so impressed by us
and the fact that we came to his rescue (free of charge) that he has
organised a paid
Christmas concert for the band and given us loads or radio publicity for the
last two years!

Brian Easterbrook
www.woodfallsband.freeserve.co.uk


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