Wells City Band – Christmas Concert

Posted by Alex on Dec 20, 2008 in Events | Comments

 

Tonight i had the pleasure of attending the Wells City Band Christmas Concert directed by David Greenway, i arrived just after 7 and already people were scurrying through to the town hall at Wells. On the dot at 7:30 the concert began, opening with Stars and Stripes Forever to commemorate the turning point for America with there new president Barack Obama, i must say that i was pleasantly surprised to see that the band had more members which really helped there performance go with a blast.

Not only that it was great to see there new uniform, a very smart blazer with the logo sown in and a emerald green tie. We also had the pleasure of seeing the training section of the band and apparently they had only been practising for several months and only playing for about a year so it was very reassuring to see the youngsters because it shows that wells city band will be around even when i am withdrawing my pension.

My favourite arrangement of the night was “One Voice” so congratulations to the band for pulling that piece off nicely. It was very refreshing and i hope to hear that again some time soon. I also had a number of chances to make good use of my “whisper singing ability” with the christmas carols, but luckily enough the people with good voices made up for my howling.

It was also an evening to give thanks to the people who had helped the band to grow and supported them for years, sadly i didn’t catch everyone’s names who were awarded for there services so my apologies.  The awards were presented by the Mayor of Wells, Cllr. Christina Bolastero. She was given the chance to see how instruments that had been donated to the band had been used over the past year by some of the younger members of the band.

Well 10 approached and the crowd yelled for an encore and so they got one with an arrangement of We wish you a Merry Christmas. I would like to say a special thanks to Jane Hill for keeping me informed with the bands plans and reserving me some seats. Myself and Tara thoroughly enjoyed the evening. It set the beginning of Christmas for me. Congratulations to David as his work with the band has really paid off. I really hope that the Wells City Band will be performing at the Pride of Central Somerset, because without them i don’t think it would be quite the same.

For those of you who want to know more about the band you can visit there website here. Plus if you like the photos above you can download the high resolution images in this zipped folder which you can download here. … Oh and before i forget, i like my new Wells City Band pen.