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Hello Brass Banders Welcome to another two-hours of brass band music from Chris Helme and Sunday Bandstand. This week we are featuring tracks throughout the two-hours from the European Brass Band Championship Concerts between 1990 and 2019 - with every track from the Euros.... Enjoy the...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to this week's Sunday Bandstand radio show - two-hours of brass band music from some of the best bands in the banding world and some great soloists straight out of the top drawer. Enjoy the show.... Julianus Marie August De Boeck (May 9, 1865 in Merchtem...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to my Sunday Bandstand a weekly two-hour programme featuring brass band from around the world. PLEASE NOTE THERE WILL NOT BE A PROGRAMME NEXT WEEK BUT NORMAL SERVICE WILL RESUME THE FOLLOWING WEEK - ARCHIVED SHOWS DATING BACK TO 2014 CAN BE HEARD THROUGH MY...

Hello Brass Banders Here we are with another great two-hours of brass band music from around the world. Hermann Ludwig Blankenburg (14 November 1876 – 15 May 1956 was a German composer of military marches. He was born with the middle name Louis but changed it to Ludwig later in life...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to another two-hours of Sunday Bandstand weekly radio show. The programme now plays across ten community radio stations across the UK and four overseas, which includes Australia, New Zealand, Italy and Ireland. The show has a theme this week. All the music has been...

Hello Brass Banders I hope you are all well, it looks as though the lock down is possibly on its last lap and degrees of normality may soon be coming back. Let us hope that rehearsals, concerts, contests and everything we normally take for granted in our world of banding will be back with us...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to another two-hours of music from the world of brass bands. I have a wide and diverse choice for you this week, from the 1970s through to the present generation of bands and musicians. Don't forget if you have a request or a question about the world of brass...

Hello Brass Banders Here we have another great show of music from the world of brass bands. Louis-Gaston Ganne - 5 April 1862 – 13/14 July 1923, was a conductor and composer of French operas, operettas, ballets, and marches. Ganne was born in the Auvergne region of France and grew up in a...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to another two-hours of brass band music from recordings from the late 1960s to this 2021. Carl Gottlieb Reissiger was born 31 January 1798, Belzig and died on 7 November 1859, Dresden) was a German conductor and composer. Reissiger attended the Thomas Schule...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to another two hours of brass band music from Sunday Bandstand produced and presented by Chris Helme. I have a varied programme for you this week. If you have a request or a question about the world of brass band I would be very pleased to hear from you. The...

This week we welcome two more community radio stations who are now playing Sunday Bandstand on their weekly schedules. Ribble FM which is based in Clitheroe in the North West of England and Cofton Hackett Radio which is based just south of Birmingham in the Midlands here in the UK. This now...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to another two-hours of brass band music produced and presented by Chris Helme. A good choice this week I am sure there will be something to enjoy by all our listeners. A touch of sadness - some listeners may not yet be aware that one of the most highly respected...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to another programme of brass band music produced and presented by Chris Helme from Lightcliffe betwixt Brighouse and Halifax in West Yorkshire. I have another diverse choice of music for you being played by bands both home and abroad, along with some fine...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to another two-hours of brass band music from Sunday Bandstand. Another first this week with the show being played on Ribble FM 106.7 which covers the Ribble Valley in the North West of the England. Brass band players and enthusiasts will be able to listen to the...

Hello Brass Banders Happy New Year to you all. Let us hope that 2021 will soon take us back to what we used to call normality. I have a smashing show for you this week with tracks dating back to 1939 and 1956 right up to the present day. Enjoy the show The concept of a company having...