This evening we played a small concert on the beach at Crackington Haven - a "Sausage Sizzle" to be precise, to raise funds for the band.
No entrance fee, no programme, no star players, no solos, no championship perfomance. Just a few friends of the band selling hot dogs, and bunch of players enjoying their music and passing it on to the holidaymakers, who had a "free" evening away from the confines of their holiday chalet and the tv box.
As we left there was a glorious sunset (we get plenty of these), and I thought "where else in the country could you play for an hour and a half in these tremendous surroundings, hills, sea, sky.... Am I lucky, or is it just good to be alive?"
Is this what true brass banding is all about?
Alan Lafferty
St Gennys Silver Band
No entrance fee, no programme, no star players, no solos, no championship perfomance. Just a few friends of the band selling hot dogs, and bunch of players enjoying their music and passing it on to the holidaymakers, who had a "free" evening away from the confines of their holiday chalet and the tv box.
As we left there was a glorious sunset (we get plenty of these), and I thought "where else in the country could you play for an hour and a half in these tremendous surroundings, hills, sea, sky.... Am I lucky, or is it just good to be alive?"
Is this what true brass banding is all about?
Alan Lafferty
St Gennys Silver Band