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Another great day organised by the Histon Feast committee.

Great weather and a great turn out.

The Anglia Youth Band of the Salvation Army put on a great performance during the parade and then a great witness at Tesco’s corner.

I caught the sun during the march as well as doing a large bbq for the band which as always goes down well.

My playing Career started at The Salvation Army, Histon in the early 1980′s taught by Bandmaster Robert Carmichael and my father (A professional player in the Cold Stream Guards bands and Royal electrical and Mechanical Engineers band)

In the 1989 I was a member of The Salvation Army’s East London youth band(led by Max Weaver) for about 8months before moving back to Cambridge. During 1990 I applied to be a member of The Salvation Army’s East Midlands youth band (led by Mike Kirk) and played 1st horn until the band was disbanded when the Salvation Army re-arranged the divisions.

In 1996 I was then asked to play for The Salvation Army’s Eastern Counties Youth band, which was then renamed Anglia Youth band(Led by Matthew Peek) again playing 1st horn.  During my 14months with the band I became band librarian, I left the band near the end of 1997 due to work and family commitments.

Went to band for the 1st time in a few weeks.

We played the tunes to Abba which was really cool…and my part is really challenging .

Home to get to band over the next few weeks subject to work.

Band Practice was great this week…

A few movers so we have a new 2nd horn player… and a few less cornets infact the band seemed more of a round sound this week.

We do need to start playing to dynamics but I am sure we can all learn not to BLAST out sections we like playing.

Anyway good practice missed the drums.

Well I managed to get to band practice tonight.

This was my 1st practice of the year, it was good to get back and play a few changes in players moving around but that has made the band not so top heavy.

We are not doing any competitions this year as we the committee feel we need a year to regroup and practice and get better.

Anyway I am sure that in the future we will start doing competitions then we can see how good we really are.

I play for Fulbourn and Teversham Royal British Legion Band…

Since being in the Band I have played

Eb Bass, 1st and 2nd Baritone and now back on my favoured instrument 1st Horn.

Added a menu for Band now for more information. We Practice on a Tuesday for a few hours it has been good to start playing in a large band.

Previously I played in a few youth bands.

Welcome to my new blog.

Over this coming year I will be trying to blog as much as possible.

With the aid of my iPhone and the wordpress application I should be able to keep the blog up to date.

We are also planning another cycle ride for charity and aim to start training.

Cheers
Edd