Hi,
last night (Sunday) I went to Soham (unfortuantely most people know where that is now
, but if not, it's in Cambridgeshire, near Ely) for a concert of Soham Comrades band. Big deal I hear you say! But Alan Morrison was guest soloist. Now Soham Comrades are a decent Championship band and the tickets were well priced (£6 adults, £4 concessions), and there were about 50 people there! And with the exception of 5 of us, they were all OAPs.
Now to me that just shows the problems faced by brass bands in our part of the world. Nobody's interested, especially young people. Even the Brass players at school laugh at me when I say I play in a Brass Band, let alone the others!!!
To me this just shows that Brass Banding is dying a slow and painful death. I don't know what it's like in other parts, but if it's like here (East Anglia), there's big problems
last night (Sunday) I went to Soham (unfortuantely most people know where that is now
Now to me that just shows the problems faced by brass bands in our part of the world. Nobody's interested, especially young people. Even the Brass players at school laugh at me when I say I play in a Brass Band, let alone the others!!!
To me this just shows that Brass Banding is dying a slow and painful death. I don't know what it's like in other parts, but if it's like here (East Anglia), there's big problems