Half Term... or not?

    So, it's half term here in Gloucestershire... but not anywhere else, apparently.  Good for those here - all holidays are "low season"; except I have to work.  The independent schools where I'm employed are with the rest of the country with their half term next week, so tomorrow I will be back at work! 

    I thoroughly enjoyed the concert last Friday.  Wotton Training Band's first concert without the main band was a huge success.  The band played really well under Diane's baton and the audience (hopefully) learned a thing or two about some of the pieces and their composers.

    The concert did lead to an invitation to help out at the main band's Poppy Proms concert on Saturday, held in Lister's Hall, Dursley (for details see their website).

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    I am really looking forward to next month's contests with the City of Bristol Band.  We have signed some new players and only need a cornet player now.  With really good odds for the Gloucestershire Brass Band Association and reasonable odds for the Leicestershire Brass Band Association (looking at the competing bands, I hagree that one will be some contest!), I am thoroughly enjoying our testpiece (and the march for the GBBA) and can't wait to put it on stage.