Kevin Holdgate's book
Jimmy V - The Josephine Baker Affair
Click HERE to download Kindle version
50% of the sales is being donated to Boobs & Brass
by Kevin Holdgate for BCN
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Boobs & Brass & the royalties will be donated to us.
Click HERE to read the write up from 4barsrest.
You can order the music from BVT Music:
http://www.bvtmusic.be/
bert@bvtmusic.be
Click HERE for details of how to purchase Steve Walker's arrangement of the cornet solo "You Raise Me Up"
"Pink up" your instrument with these trendy pink valve felts! Boobs & Brass will get a donation for every set sold.
Available for £7.95 from HERE
Many thanks to Dan from Brass-Fix
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Brass Band Music: This beautiful tune has been arranged for Brass Band by our Flugel player, Judith Hayes, and has been played by Boobs & Brass at concerts in Kettering, Leicester & Butlins & features on our new CD "More Than Brass". Sets are £25 each including a donation to Breast Cancer Campaign and UK p&p. Please order through www.hayes.me.uk quoting Boobs & Brass
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New Book Available
Alan Nichols - Jane’s husband - has written ‘a light hearted history of Boobs & Brass’ entitled “I’ve had this idea”. It is now available to purchase at a cost of £12.95 (plus postage if being mailed to you). If you would like to purchase a copy please email margaretbetts@btinternet.com
Details also on Facebook
In September last year we undertook a recording with the ladies from "Boobs and Brass"
and flugel soloist John Lee with the entire proceeds from the sale of these CDs being donated to the cancer charity Breast Cancer Campaign. The success of that CD can only be described as remarkable. (Click HERE for more details)
Taking part in that recording was Carol Jarvis, an international trombonist, who has now launched her own solo CD "Smile". Carol was diagnosed in 2004 with Hodkins Lymphoma but she continues her fight with the disease with pioneering treatment whilst maintaining her position as one of the finest instrumentalists.
The CD features a number of well known titles in addition to material written especially for the release, one additional highlight is the beautiful cover image, "Golden Girl" painted by the artist Rolf Harris in support of the project. Money raised from sales will be donated to Macmillan Cancer Support.
It can beordered from Divine Art and is also available from Macmillan Cancer Support and for download on iTunes and Amazon.
To learn more about Carol Jarvis visit her website at caroljarvis.com
"The Full Monty" from Marshall, Rushworth, Lee & Co - 3CDs for £20 (free P&P)
(Proceeds of sales will be shared between Breast Cancer Campaign and The City of Sheffield Band)
The City Of Sheffield Band (Formerly Stocksbridge) have re-released 3 fantastic recordings from the 1990s to celebrate 110 years of music making and 15 years since they appeared in Britain’s most successful film ever “The Full Monty”. The band, who at the time was ranked in the top 5 of the world rankings, boasted such stars as Richard Marshall, Billy Rushworth, John Lee, Brian Winter, Martin Irwin, Greg Timmins and many more. The 3 recordings, A Sheffield Welcome (Recorded for the World Student Games), Quality Performance and Heritage all feature these famous names, along with Andy Duncan (Tuba soloist in Gregsons Tuba Concerto). A Sheffield Welcome includes, Mach & Mabel, Embraceable You and Sometimes I Feel like a Motherless Child (Soloist Martin Irwin). Quality performance includes Die Fledermaus, Journey into Freedom and Song & Dance (Soloist, Brian Winter). Heritage consists of 4 major works. Fireworks (Elgar Howarth). Forest Of Dean, Gregsons Tuba Concerto (Soloist, Andy Duncan) and Malcolm Arnolds Fantasy for Brass Band. Richard, Billy and John put in some fine performances on the Heritage CD, which was directed by Kevin Bolton. Elgar Howarth, Derek Bourgeois, Edward Gregson and
Malcolm Arnold all add to the outstanding quality of the recording with informative pros about their works. All in all, 3 outstanding recordings, with an array of stars, who have endorsed the release whole heartedly. They can be bought separately for £8, or all 3. The Full Monty package for £20. You don’t even have to pay for p&p. Simply send a cheque made payable to Sheffield Recreation Band Club. To: City Of Sheffield Band, C/O Wayside, Horse Croft Lane, Sheffield S35 0EB.
A Sheffield Welcome: (Fanfare, Mack & Mabel, Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child, Gonna fly now, Winter, Bohemian Rhapsody, When I fall in love, Strike up the band, Softly as I leave you, Hot Toddy, Mash, Embraceable you, Galaxies)
Quality performance: (Cortege from mlada, Die Fledermaus, Pavane & Kings hunting jig, Song & Dance, Golliwogs cakewalk, An American in Paris, The Contestor, Carnival of Venice, Bill Bailey, Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Journey into Freedom.
Heritage:(Fireworks, Forest of Dean, Tuba Concerto, Fantasy for Brass Band)enquiries@cityofsheffieldbrassband.org.uk
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Apparently one of our players, Helen Thurlby from Tideswell Band, went on holiday to Tenerife. Whilst there she met Valerie Richardson, a presenter on the local Tenerife Radio station www.powerfmradio.com
Val is now fully aware of Boobs and Brass and so it seems is Tenerife, its residents and some of its tourists. Val has bought the CD (one of the ten Helen sold in Los Gigantes Tenerife) and excerpts from the CD have been and still are played by Val, mainly between 3pm and 4 pm in the afternoons on the radio, along with explanations about the band!Moral of the story - take some CDs on holiday with you!