News

16th Nov 2009

A Night of Celebration

Friday 13th November saw a very important night for Croy Silver Band with four members recieveing recoginition for life membership to the Scottish Brass Band Association and Cory Silver Band. The band gave an excellent varied programme featuring excellent solo performances from Jennifer Aitken on Trombone, Jim O`Donnell on Cornet and Graeme Currie as Flugel Soloist in a moving rendition of the solo that a few years ago won Tommy Bolan Best Soloist Award.

The evening was brought to close with the vocal talents of Pat Canavan and the band would like to thank Tom Allan and Andy Smith from the SBBA for making the presentations on the night.

18th Sept 2009

Croy Youth Brass Fundraising Hike Looking back it all seems so surreal, Croy youth band conductor Grant Golding agreed to theme the summer concert "Guitar Hero" if we did the West Highland Way for Youth Brass funds! 95 miles from the North of Glasgow to the foot of Ben Nevis. Taking part in the walk was Angela Jarvie, youth band members Lewis and Louise Scotland and soon to be Youth Band member Callum Scotland accompanied by the bands mascot BB the wee purple bear. On a damp July day the team headed out lead by Louise Scotland with the bands performance of Pinball Wizard still ringing in thier ears. Suffering the Scottish summer weather lead to some scrapes including a dislocated shoulder from avoiding  a falling tree and mudslide - fallen arches and numerous blisters. By the end of the week the team arrived wet but happy in Fort William. The support from people on the walk was fantastic and around £1500 has been raised for youth band funds. Conductor Grant Golding said - I`m delighted that the team did this and all of us in the band are grateful of the support that all of the parents offer Croy Youth Brass or as Angela calls them - The Brass Brats!

1st Aug 2009
Junior band solo cornet player Grant McDaid has made the leap up to the senior band where he is enjoying the challenges of 3rd cornet.

16th July 2009
I finally have access to the server again to upload the site - we have recently had a change of server and software which has slowed down the development of this site. After a number of security issues that are now resolved we are back up and running.
The sound files will re appear soon.

The band have had a busy few months with personnel changes and concerts details to follow shortly.
 

28th Dec
After a hectic December I finally have found time to update the site.
The month started with the senior band taking part in a fundraising concert with the critically acclaimed Trumpet and Organ duo - "The Trumpet Shall Sound". The pea soup freezing fog didn't put people off attending the event at Burns and Old Church in Kilsyth and £530 was raised for band funds.
The Mp3 player below has a few live tracks from the evening - recording courtesy of www.trumpetrecital.com

The senior band was joined by the rapidly expanding juniors for the end of year concert at the Croy miners welfare institute.
The senior band have also appeared at the festival of light, Kilsyth Bandstand and the busy period culminated in 2 days outside the local Tesco in Craigmarloch where just over £1000 was raised for band funds.
The band would like to thank the public, audiences and supporters for attending our events in 2008.
Merry Christmas and a Happy 2009!

10 Nov
Contest Success - Solo horn player Elaine Stewart won the best soloist award at the recent Borders Entertainment Contest, her rendition of "Over the rainbow" beat of the competition and ensured the band left with more silverware to add to the collection. Pictures from the contest HERE

New Signings - The band would like to welcome four new players to the band. John Hawthorn and Drew Petrie have augmented the front row cornets. Scott Barker has stepped into the flugel position and Jennifer Aitken has taken the solo trombone chair.