• Wallsend Winter Carnivale: Sunday 9 September, 2012

    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

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  • Band Association of New South Wales Band Championships: Sunday 26 August, 2012

    Band Association of New South Wales Band Championships: Sunday 26 August, 2012 Joan Sutherland Performing Arts Centre, Penrith CNL Brass was one of five bands to compete in Open B Grade Brass. All bands played the set test Connotations and also presented two other items, a Hymn and an Own Choice for adjudication. The band,

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  • Hunter Regional Soloist and Ensemble Championships: Sunday 5 August, 2012

    Hunter Regional Soloist and Ensemble Championships: Sunday 5 August, 2012 Clarence Leung, who is Principal Cornet for CNL Brass, had an excellent result at the Championships. Clarence entered the Open Cornets Event (which he won in 2011) and played Jubilance. Clarence won the event with a mark of 98 (out of 100) and retained the

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  • Brass Festival Challenge Entertainment Contest

    Brass Festival Challenge Entertainment Contest Mingara Recreation Club: Tumbi Umbi: Sunday 26 February. CNL Brass was one of five brass bands to present an entertainment program. The other bands were: St Marys Band Club Brass, Leichardt Celebrity Brass, Gosford City Brass and Parramatta City Brass. Members of the audience of about three hundred were very

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  • ANZAC Day 2012

    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

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  • “In A Sentimental Mood” Concert: Sunday 15 April

    “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

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  • Orange Brass Festival 10/11 March

    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

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  • Hunter Regional Band Championships: Newcastle City Hall: Sunday 10 June, 2012

    Hunter Regional Band Championships: Newcastle City Hall: Sunday 10 June, 2012 CNL Brass presented two items for adjudication in the formal “East Coast Session” of the Championships, competing as a B Grade band for the first time in the Open A & B Grade Brass Section. The band was unplaced. The band had a better

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