Flugel Horn Section
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I started to play at school and was taught by Donald Manning from Kettering Salvation Army. I moved to North Leicestershire and joined Hathern Band on Tenor Horn. When the Band were short of cornets, I moved to the cornet section temporarily to help out. I then moved on to Principal Cornet for 13 years! The Band moved through the sections to Championship Section when thankfully someone came along far better than me and I moved on to Flugel Horn.
Having had breast cancer myself I am absolutely delighted to be part of the brilliant Boobs and Brass and raising money to find a cure
Hathern
Born in Batley, West Yorkshire, into a Salvation Army family, Judith heard her first brass band at the tender age of just six weeks. She started playing tenor horn at the age of 9 and played with the SA band in her home town until going to university, to study engineering science. After starting work in the Midlands in 1986, Judith joined Bilton Silver (Rugby) Band, with whom she has played ever since, holding the flugel horn position since 1988. As well as playing, Judith arranges and composes music for band, with her first published arrangement in 2005; she was thrilled to have the Boobies play her “Mongolian Folk Tune” at the concert in Kettering in 2009, and secretly nurtures two ambitions: to get a music degree and to have a top top band play one of her pieces.
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Born in Rochdale Lancs. Played with Littleborough Prize Band (got a cup for being the youngest player at Town Hall Rochdale), Bedford Church Leigh andGolbourne. My dad was conductor of these so moved with him.
Moved to Hastings and had a short stint with Ivy Benson All Girls Dance Band in Germany. Played in Sussex Brass Hastings (again conducted by my dad)
Then moved to Northampton with my job and joined Rushden Windmill (that’s how I know the 2 main tarts “Maggie and Jane”). Had a break for while to have my girlies. Played with Kibworth. Had another short break and then joined Raunds Temps and been there for nearly 14 years (for me sins ha!)Raunds Temperance
I first began playing a brass instrument aged 49, when parents of children in South Humberside Youth Brass were asked if they would ‘like a go' - and so, armed with a
Tune-a-Day book and a cornet, off I went to rehearsal. Five re-cycled teenagers became ‘South Humberside Geriatric Brass!’Just over a year later, my husband and I were invited to join Kingsway Printers Cleethorpes Brass Band and have remained members ever since. I was eventually offered the flugel which I immediately fell in love with.
I am also a member of the recently formed ‘Rambling Brass’ who raise funds for the NSPCC by - doing mad things like carrying our instruments to the top of Mount Snowdon to play. www.ramblingbrass.doodlekit.com
I joined Boobs & Brass for their first - and simply magical ‘Whit Fridays. I am proud to be a member of the ‘boobies,’ with whom I have had some wonderful times while helping the important fundraising work.
Cleethorpes Band
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