DSB – August Blog
Wow we are into August already and we had a really exciting July. We started the month with both our Senior and Youth bands playing at St Thomas More School in Blaydon. This was a great opportunity for the youth band to gain valuable experience performing their well-rehearsed programme. This was a poignant performance as we are again approaching our annual summer school. If you haven’t seen details yet please visit our face book page. It looks to be our biggest yet and definitely not to be missed if you are a young brass player.
In the middle of July we had the great pleasure of marching Ryhope banner into The Durham Miners Gala. This event celebrates the communities that took part in this event in the past and promote mining heritage and union participation, although we are there for the great music and spirit on offer as nearly 200,000 people lined the streets of Durham as we marched through stopping to play in front of the crowds on an absolutely melting day. We all put our heart and soul into that event as we love the day even in the march back out of Durham was a struggle in the 30 degree heat!
Our final engagement of July was at Beamish Museum, again the weather blessed us with a glorious day; sun, picnics and music, what more could you want. We presented a period themed programme playing music from the early 20th century and this was a great opportunity for us to go back to our banding roots and play traditional marches to a superb standard.
As we look ahead to august the band is taking a short break after our performance at South Shields Ampitheatre on Sunday 5th August at 2pm. We hope to see you there otherwise we will join you again as we work even harder as we head towards winter!