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09/12/2011 George Quilliam Congratulations to George Quilliam, one of our trombone players, George was among 120 young people invited to the event, which honours member of the various groups within St John Ambulance who have made an outstanding contribution during their time as volunteers of the organisation. They were each given the opportunity to meet the Princess Royal who is commandant in chief, youth, for St John Ambulance. George is the current St John Ambulance Isle of Man’s cadet of the year. 01/12/2011 Christmas Dates It’s Christmas time again! The band have announced dates for when they will be appearing during the Christmas Period. They are as follows:-
28/11/2011 Band President For the first time in the bands history we have a President. At the recent annual dinner and prize presentation Edwin Cubbon was appointed Band President. Edwin has played in the band for over 70 years and is still playing. At a meeting earlier this year it was decided the band should have a president and it was unanimously agreed that Edwin should be the first. For more information read the Band Awards 2011. 10/11/11 4barsrest An article appeared on 4barsrest on the 8th November announcing the soon to be published new arrangement of a Manx traditional carol arranged for the Castletown Metropolitan Silver Band by Leigh Baker. Leigh has played with a number of top bands as well as being Composer in Residence with the Brighouse and Rastrick Band. Rodney Evans and Ian Cottier of ‘Time for Brass’ are researching the music and will be writing programme notes for the published version which will be available soon. We hope to be including this in this years Christmas concerts. 01/11/2011 Castletown Poppy Concert The concert on the 4th November will be taking place in the Castletown Civic Centre, and not in Morton Hall as previously publicised. 29/10/2011 Poppy Concerts The band are taking part in 2 poppy concerts in the next couple of weeks. The first is on Friday 4th November and will be held in Morton Hall, Castletown, and will start at 7.30pm. The second is a week later, on Friday November 11th and will be at the Villa Marina, Douglas. This concert will also start at 7:30pm. Also taking part will be the Isle of Man Wind Orchestra, King Williams College Choir, and groups from all the islands secondary schools. Both concerts are to raise money for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal.
20/10/2011 Band Room Extension The band were glad to hear that planning permission has now been granted for the extension to the band room. The next stage is to apply for Building approval. Once this has been approved the band will be going out to tender for the building work, which hopefully will commence in spring 2012. Full details of the process and decisions can be found here. Watch this space! 27/08/2011 Samantha Ash Fund Following the band concert in St Georges Church on 23rd August which was organised by the Royal Artillery Association to raise funds for the Samantha Ash Fund, the band have decided to arrange a further concert, this time at the Castletown Civic Centre on Tuesday 30th August, when all proceeds will again be donated to the Samantha Ash Fund. Organisers of the fund are trying to raise money to send Samantha, who has been blind since birth, to a specialist blind school in the UK. Admission will be £2, including refreshments, please spread the word, tell your friends, fill your cars up and bring us an audience to the Civic Centre. The more people attending the greater the outcome will be. Please help us support Samantha. 12/08/2011 Concerts The band have a busy couple of weeks coming up with a number of concerts before the end of August. Sunday 14th August - The band will be playing for a fund raising event for the Port Erin brnach of the Royal British Legion. This will be a concert starting at 6.30pm followed by a BBQ, which will be held regardless of the weather. Tickets cost £6 for all you can eat, bring your own wine/beer, however, no doubt tea and coffee will be available. Tuesday 16th August - This is our annual pilgrimage to Peel Cathedral. This concert will start at 7.45pm, everyone is welcome. Tuesday 23rd August - This concert is being organised by the Royal Artillery Association and is a fund raiser to raise vital money towards funding a young local blind lady at an educational establishment in the UK. She wll also be singing at the concert. Wednesday 24th August - Another annual concert, this time in St Catherines Church in Port Erin. This will start at 8pm. Sunday 28th August - This is another of our try it and see concerts and will be held in Castletown Square (in front of Barclays Bank) and will start at 2pm. This is your opportunity to come along and have a go at playng a brass or percussion instrument. You never know, you may enjoy it. It was following one of these concerts last year that one of our percussionists, Richard Payne joined the band. Tuesday 30th August - The next in our series of summer concerts in the Castletown Civic Centre and will start at 8pm. All of these concerts are open to the public, so please come along and enjoy. 09/07/2011 Flower Festival The start time for the concert at the Abbey Church this evening has been changed from 19:00 to 18:30. 14/05/2011 Latest Recruit The bands latest honorary recruit, Kirrie the donkey, with the band outside Peel Cathedral following the Palm Sunday procession from Peel Castle. 27/04/2011 Concert Update Details of 3 new concerts have been added to the Enagagements page, including 2 concerts in Castletown Civic Centre and details of a parade and service in Peel for their Civic Service. The first concert in the Civic Centre is for the band to announce plans for work to be carried out on the bandroom, more details will follow. The second is to raise funds in aid of the Anti Cancer Fund, so please come along and support this excellent charity. 10/04/2011 Swearing in Ceremony The band were honoured to be taking part in the Swearing in Ceremony for the Islands’ new Lieutenant Governor Mr Adam Wood in Castletown on Thursday 7th April. Before the ceremony, whilst the invited guests and officials were arriving, the band entertained the crowds in Castletown Square with a selection of marches and Manx tunes, including Manxland, Kelly and True and Trusty. On the arrival of the governor designate, the band led the gathering in the Royal Anthem and the National Anthem of the Isle of Man, followed by a rendition of Ellan Vannin during which Mr Wood met and talked to the crowds. A procession of the officials and invited guests, led by friends from Manx Concert Brass who were going to be playing the fanfares on state trumpets, then made it’s way into Castle Rushen for the actually ceremony. 19/03/2011 Twitter You can now follow the band on Twitter. We will be ‘tweeting’ about upcoming concerts, rehearsals, social events, in fact anything to do with the band and the brass band world. We can be found at http://twitter.com/castletownmet. 05/03/2011 Hyperbaric Charity Concert In October last year, the band gave a concert at Abbey Church, Ballasalla, as a fund raising event for the Hyperbaric Chamber. The concert also featured Manx Choir, Caarjyn Cooidjagh. The concert consisted of Manx brass band music, arranged by the late Major J E Thirtle, former Musical Director of the band and Manx songs performed by the choir. The evening saw a wealth of local music, rarely performed these days and the audience had a most enjoyable evening. At the end of the concert, the ladies of the Abbey Church served a Manx Tea in the hall which was appreciated by all. Rodney Evans, the Bands Musical Director said that it was good to support local organisations, and particularly such a vital facility as the Hyperbaric Chamber. Many members of the band have been treated at this facility, and have benefited greatly. The evening raised a most creditable £395, plus a further donation from an audience member, raising the total to £400.
25/02/2011 Subscription Concert This years Subscription Concert will be held on Sunday 20th March at Castle Rushen High School, starting at 2.30pm, following 3 days of intensive rehearsals. The band will again be welcoming David Horsfield over as guest conductor and tutor and will be tackling a number of challenging pieces. We are also pleased that Ian Astill, one of our own, will be back from his studies at the Royal Northern College of Music, to take part in the weekend and to perform a solo during the concert. Everyone is welcome, and once again entry will be free but there will be a retiring collection. 09/02/2011 Peel Pensioners Concert The band held their first concert of 2011 on Wednesday 9th February at the the Phillip Christian Centre in Peel for the Peel Pensioners Club. This is always an enjoyable engagement as the audience are appreciative of the commitment of the band and enjoy the stories and jokes of the bands compere, Willy Kneale. Click here for a report.
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who was welcomed to Buckingham Palace recently for the St John Ambulance annual Young Achievers’ Reception.
