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Cory Online Band Championships 2021 Recording: 10th March, 2021
This is the second International Online Cory Band Championship that CNL Brass has entered. The performance was recorded in the band’s rehearsal hall. A time limit of 10 minutes applied. The three items were presented were: Waltzing Matilda, Australia’s best known bush ballad, with lyrics written by Banjo Paterson in 1895 and first published to…
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“Christmas in Brass” Concert: 13th December, 2020
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…
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“CNL Brass in Concert”: Sunday 9th August, 2020
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…
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Vale David Walker OAM
David Walker OAM, principal euphonium of CNL Brass, passed away at home on Monday evening 29 June, 2020. Members of CNL Brass extend their sincere condolences to his wife Dorothy, his daughter Heather, the band’s percussionist and other members of David’s family. Allan Shaw President CNL Brass
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ANZAC Day 2020
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…
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Christmas Carols Ensembles: December, 2019
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…
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“Christmas in Brass” Concert: Sunday 15th December, 2019
CARDIFF SENIOR CITIZENS CENTRE, CARDIFF The Concert opened with Christmas Crackers, a medley of well-known Christmas tunes. The German Carol Ich Steh An Deiner Krippen Hier (I’m Standing By Your Crib) followed. The Australian composition by William G James, An Australian Christmas, consisting of three Movements, Carol of the Birds, Lullaby Carol and Christmas Day…
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Crossroads Christian Fellowship Concert: Thursday 26th September, 2019
CNL Brass presented its second one hour Concert for the year, entertaining about forty developmentally disabled people on Thursday evening. The band supports the Garden Suburb Uniting Church Committee, who host the evening. Eleven numbers were played, two of which were medleys, featuring the songs of The Beatles and ABBA. Both were very popular. The…
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“From Argentina to Oregon” Concert: Sunday 15th September, 2019
LAKE MACQUARIE PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE, WARNERS BAY The Spitfire March, composed by Australian Robert McAnally to honour Australian pilots who flew Spitfires in the Battle of Britain during World War II, opened the Program “with a flourish”. Don’t Cry for Me Argentina, a no.1 hit from the musical Evita, in which the spirit of the…
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Band Association of New South Wales Long Service Awards
Four current members of CNL Brass were recently presented with Long Service Badges. This foursome represents a total of one hundred and ninety years of dedicated service with Band Association of New South Wales bands. Standing; Left to right Bruce Fletcher, Principal Cornet. Recipient of a Forty Year Service Badge. Heather Walker, Percussionist. Recipient of…
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