Category: Concerts

“Aussie Made” Concert: Warners Bay Performing Arts Centre: 16 September, 2012 CNL Brass presented a two hour Concert Program, featuring musical works that were either written or arranged by Australian musicians, or contained Australian melodies. An audience of about one hundred, mainly seniors, attended and were “full of praise” for the Program. In all, nineteen…

Wallsend Winter Carnivale: Sunday 9 September, 2012 CNL Brass led the Parade and presented a one hour concert program in the Band Rotunda to an enthusiastic audience. The concert provided an “Australian Flavour”, with numbers such as I Still Call Australia Home, Gundagai, the Theme Music from the movie A Man From Snowy River, I…

Anzac Day Dawn Service: Pelican Flat RSL CNL Brass provided the music for the Dawn Service hosted by Pelican Flat RSL Sub- Branch, playing three traditional Hymns, Advance Australia Fair and God Save the Queen. Clarence Leung, principal cornet, played the bugle calls “The Last Post” and “Reveille”. The Service drew a large crowd. Anzac…

“In A Sentimental Mood” Concert: Sunday 15 April Lake Macquarie Performing Arts Centre, Warners Bay CNL Brass entertained a mainly Seniors audience of about one hundred with a varied Program of twenty-one numbers. The band opened with “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy”, a number made famous in the early forties by The Andrew Sisters. Other numbers…

Orange Brass Festival: Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th March, 2012 CNL Brass was a guest of City of Orange Brass Band, together with Parramatta Salvation Army Band and Willoughby City Band. The four bands marched in the Saturday Parade of Bands, which began in the City Centre at 12.30pm and proceeded to the delightful setting…

Wednesday Evening 21st December The Band entertained family and friends in a short concert program featuring Christmas carols and Christmas songs. Three perpetual trophies were awarded at the function, each being decided by the musical director, Ron Boaden. The trophies were awarded to: Clarence Leung, principal cornet, who received the Elwyn Hunt trophy for Bandsmanship.…

Concert: Warners Bay, 16 December CNL Brass and Eleebana Primary School Concert Band combined to entertain the audience at the very popular “Music in the Podium” series of concerts held in the podium at Lake Macquarie foreshore park, Warners Bay, on Friday evenings during daylight saving. Both bands included Christmas carols and Christmas tunes as…

Church of Christ, East Maitland 3 December CNL Brass shared the evening with Thornton Salvation Army Band, completing the second half of the program. The evening also featured, within each half, David Scrogie, a world renowned pianist within the Salvation Army. CNL Brass presented fifteen items and took the opportunity to feature six soloists and…