Concert Brass - Western Park, Leicester
Aug. 1, 2010
On Sunday the 18th of July, Hathern Concert Brass and their conductor Andrea Allen played at Western Park in Leicester. It was a very windy day but the band played well to a good sized audience who, despite being laden with chairs and travel rugs, huffed and puffed their way up the hill to the bandstand.
After a while the ice-cream van came, and as people went to get their ice-creams the band played on longing for their chance to indulge. The shortness of the interval prevented half time ice creams and still the van taunted them until … it disappeared down the hill causing a near mutiny in the Band and a threatened downing of sticks from the percussion section.
The concert finished patriotically with the National Anthem and a standing ovation – a crafty move by Andrea!
Report by Katie (2nd cornet Hathern Concert Brass)