Due to unforeseen circumstances, I am having to change one of the host families for the Kennet Band visit. I now urgently need a bed for a Year 10 female student (sax player). If any UVHS Band player’s family (Year 9, 10 or 11 – doesn’t have to be a sax player) can accommodate her please email me asap – I would like to get details out to all host families tomorrow.
This weekend, both the Big Band and Swing Band are out and about giving everyone a chance to hear some top-quality music from our brilliant students.
Saturday 20th – BIG BAND @ The Old Friends (Sautergate) from 20:15 – 22:00 (in the beer garden marquee)
Sunday 21st – SWING BAND @ Grange Bandstand from 14:00 – 16:00
Both events are FREE. Please publicise them amongst friends & colleagues and on social media – it would be great to have big audiences to play to!
There will be a meeting of Friends of UVHS Music at 6.30pm on Tuesday 9th June in the small dining room at school.
We will be organizing the summer concerts, arranging the Christmas Festival and discussing further fundraising for the Wind Band Tour to Salzburg.
All parents of musicians welcome
Saturday 20th June Reduced Swing @ Newlands – 6.30pm (private)
Saturday 20th June Reduced Swing @ The Old Friends – 8pm
Sunday 21st June Swing @ Grange Bandstand – 2pm
Monday 22nd June Sax Ensemble @ Prizegiving – 6pm
Saturday 4th July Swing @ Market Cross – 11am (carnival)
Monday 6th July Chamber Concert @ UVHS – 7pm
Friday 10th July Wind Band Concert @ The Coro – 7.30pm
(with Kennett School Wind Band)
Saturday 11th July Swing @ LowickFest – 6.00pm
(with Kennett School Soul Band – BBQ, Bar, ice cream etc)
Wednesday 15th July A Night At The Musicals @ The Coro – 7.30
A reminder that the REDUCED Swing Band is playing at Holker Hall tomorrow, performing at 12.00 and 2pm in the covered bandstand area.
Those students playing know who they are and received a letter last week with all the arrangements. We are taking 7 saxes, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, drum, bass and piano.
Please make sure you are wearing full swing band uniform (with t-shirt underneath for warmth if necessary), and bring a waterproof for when we are not playing.
Yet another brilliant concert from the Swing Band at Millom Palladium on Friday night. We brought the (packed) house down!! Some phenomenal individual vocal and instrumental performances as well as an extremely high quality of ensemble playing.
Special congratulations to Alex Nicklin, Francis Smith-Ward and Emily Glass who all made their debuts, and had to sight-read about 75% of the programme!!!!
Next Swing Band gig is at Grange on Sunday 21st June @ 2pm, but the Combo has three engagements before then:
Friday 29th May – Holker Garden Festival (12.00 & 2pm)
Saturday 20th June – Private Party at Newlands (6.30pm)
Saturday 20th June – The Old Friends (8pm – 10.00pm)
Please try to support what promises to be a fantastic evening’s entertainment – supported by Friends of UVHS Music and The Mysterious Ulverston Curry Club. Our top two guitar bands will also be playing as support – Wasted Saints and Blue Shift.
Tickets available from the annexe at break, to reserve from reception or on the door.
Brilliant concert last night from the Swing Band at Lower Holker Village Hall. A sell-out audience created a fantastic atmosphere in which all students excelled! Some amazing numbers from the band and the vocalists (Libbi, Ben and Florrie were superb) as well as some great improvised solos from Ben, Harry and Dan. Congratulations also to Adam on drums, for playing so well in new numbers for him, and Maciek on violin who sight-read almost the entire concert of 26 numbers.
The fact that they have already booked two engagements from us next year speaks volumes about how well everyone performed – if you haven’t heard the band yet this year, get along to one of our gigs over the last few months of this year!!! (see the calendar above)
Please find attached the letter that went out to Wind Band today. It has a lot of information about all the concerts this term (although the Chamber Concert might be brought forward a week) – please read it carefully if your little cherub has not brought it home!!!
More importantly, we desperately need accommodation for students in the Kennet School Band when they visit us in July. Please return the slip as soon as possible if you can help.