Category: Concerts

Bunnings stores provided the opportunity for CNL Brass ensembles to present Christmas programs of Carols and popular tunes for their customers throughout December.  The ensembles performed at various Bunnings locations.  A donation received for each performance was greatly appreciated.

WARNERS BAY UNITING CHURCH – THE WILLOWS The Concert opened with the 2020 Leo Thomas composition, The Christmas Feeling, which, in the words of the composer, was designed to promote the feeling of joy. It was well-received. Mistletoe and Wine, a Sir Cliff Richard release from 1988, followed. A highlight of the first half was…

WARNERS BAY THEATRE The Concert opened with the Festival Prelude Ellacombe, a hymn with significant crescendos that set it apart from traditional hymn arrangements. Bruce Fletcher, principal cornet, then featured as soloist for Send in the Clowns from the 1973 musical, A Little Night Music. The Eve of the War, the foreboding opening track from…

WARNERS BAY THEATRE The Concert opened with the recent work Felicitous written in 2020 specifically as a concert opener by the composer to “promote a feeling of excitement for the audience”. It certainly achieved that response with the level of applause from the audience. Stand By Me, featured in the 1986 film of the same…

Bunnings Stores provided the opportunity for CNL Brass Christmas Ensembles to present a program of Christmas Carols and Songs to Bunnings customers throughout December.  The band is most appreciative to Bunnings for providing financial sponsorship for each performance.  

WARNERS BAY THEATRE The Concert opened with the lively George and Ira Gershwin’s tune Strike Up the Band, followed by the 1940’s classic Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy. Michael Jackson’s first No.1 hit One Day in Your Life featured solo tenor horn player Meredith Wilson, while principal cornet Bruce Fletcher next led the band, playing the…

LAKE MACQUARIE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, WARNERS BAY The Concert opened with the March Born is the King,a composition of popular Christmastunes set to a “marching beat”. White Christmas, a “forever” favourite, followed. Dave Curry featured as soloist on Eb Bass with the rather jolly It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Rudolph. Sir Cliff Richard’s…

This Concert was filled with uncertainty as to the ability to attract an audience (mainly Seniors) in the COVID-19 situation. Despite a limit on attendance (capacity of 300 reduced to 90) with social distancing requirements and adequate sanitising procedures in place, CNL Brass only entertained an audience of twenty-two. Band members were pleased to present…

The suggestion by the National RSL Executive that ANZAC Day be observed at home by family members holding a lighted candle at 6am in front of their homes and, where musicians were available, playing the bugle calls, received an enthusiastic response from many Australian families. The following members of CNL Brass organised letter drops in…

A Carols Ensemble of nine band members provided a one-hour program of Christmas Carols and Christmas Tunes at three Bunnings Warehouse locations in the weeks before Christmas. The schedule was: Saturday 7 December Bunnings, Wallsend at 11am and Bunnings, Kotara at 1.30pm Saturday 14 December Bunnings Wallsend at 11am. Although we did not have a…