sunday bandstand

Hello Brass Banders Another great show for you this week. I hope all is well in your banding world and if you are still playing you are as busy as you want to be with summer engagements. We have bands from around the world for you again this week, from as far away as Norway, USA, The...

Hello Brass Banders For many bands it will be summer park engagement time. I well remember the early 1960s and playing in our local park. When it was really hot weather the band secretary gave us permission to play without wearing our band jackets. Mind you those were rare events back then. On...

Hello Brass Banders - Welcome to another two hour weekly Sunday Bandstand radio show presented by Chris Helme. We have bands this from a number of different countries and some really fine soloists. Dr. Keith M. Wilkinson moved to the United States with his wife, Audrey, and daughters, Debbie...

Hello Brass Banders Well, having been away for three weeks for a little bit of sunshine it is great to put together a new show for this week. As always we have bands from different parts of the world including Norway, USA, Italy, New Zealand and some top class home grown bands from here in the...

Hello Brass Banders Here we are with another two hours of music from the world of brass band. We have the third section UK National Finals test piece Viking Age written by French composer Thierry Deleruyelle and played by the Cory Band and we also have the second section test piece Occasion...

Hello Brass Banders We have a really top class show for your this week. Featured bands are from: Canada, Switzerland, Norway, Australia, USA and as always we have some of the best sounds from home grown bands from here in the UK. We are playing recordings from the present day and others that...

Hello Brass Banders - Another two hour show featuring brass bands from around the world and some wonderful home grown bands on top of that. It is a show that is just fifteen seconds short of the full two hours so we have a lot of music to get through - on with the show. Hermann Pallhuber...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to Sunday Bandstand the weekly brass band radio show. This week we have bands from Norway, The Netherlands, Switzerland and some of the best home grown bands from here in the UK. As always we have some wonderful soloists - listen out for the incredible trombone...

Hello Brass Banders - Welcome to another two hours of brass band music from Sunday Bandstand. We have music both old and the not so old and some fabulous soloists. Don't forget if you have a request or question about the world of brass bands I would be pleased to hear from you -...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to another two hours of brass band music from around the world. We have plenty of music, a few old favourites and some almost new pieces which you might have even played. As always we have a wonderful choice of soloists which include: Les Smail back in his...

Hello Brass Banders - Welcome to another two hours of music from the world of brass bands from Sunday Bandstand, which is based on the outskirts of Brighouse. Plenty of great bands and soloists along with some wonderful music. Some of the tracks you may have heard before but I sure many others...

Hello Brass Bands - Well another week has just flown by and here we are again with another two hours of brass band music for you to enjoy. I was visiting Wetherby this week as guest speaker at the local men's probus club, soon after I paid call call to the studios at Tempo FM the local...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to another two hours of music from the world of brass bands. We are featuring bands from The Netherlands, Switzerland, New Zealand and some fine soloists. We even have a pipe band......! Born in Bicester in 1931, Anthony Hedges studied music at Keble College...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to my weekly two hour brass band show Sunday Bandstand. The show has now been running since December 2007. On my website are two hour shows in an archive dating back to August 2014, so there are plenty shows to go at if you want a little wall to wall brass band music...

Hello Brass Banders I hope you are managing to avoid the bad weather and keeping warm. My radio show is played out in Australia and the radio station owner was telling me that whilst our weather is close to and below freezing they are going through daily temperatures of 35 to 40 degrees with an...

Hello Brass Banders It was announced in the last couple of week's that Roy Roe the wonderful soprano cornet, adjudicator and band trainer sadly passed away. To read the story I wrote about Roy back in 2003 please have a look at the obituary section of The Mouthpiece where I posted the story...

Hello Brass Banders It is just a week since our last show for you, it only seems like yesterday. I have plenty of good music for you featuring bands from around the world and as always some quality home grown bands I am playing a tribute piece this week to Peter Masseurs one of the best...

Hello Brass Banders Here we are again how quickly the week has flown by since our last show. We have another two hours of fab music from the world of brass bands. I was very pleased this week to receive the 'Legacy' triple CD collection featuring the Sunlife (Stanshawe) Band. This is a band...

Hello Brass Banders Welcome to my weekly two hour Sunday Bandstand radio programme which is produced, pre -recorded and presented by me from my office in Lightcliffe on the outskirts of Halifax here in the UK. The show is now being played through 13 community radio stations - 8 here in the UK...

Hello Brass Banders - Well, 2018 has almost come to an end and this is the last Sunday Bandstand for another year. The show is now entering its 12th year and the number of community radio stations that play the show is continuing to grow. With more and more listeners tuning around the world the...