Essex Country Show

Last week, we played at the Essex Country Show, from 12 until 3 on Saturday and Sunday.

It’s not really the sort of event where people sit in their deckchairs and listen for three hours – a lot of the audience were on their way from A to B and paused for a few minutes as they were passing, and it was gratifying to see how many of them wanted to find out more about the band (judging by conversations during the breaks, and the amount of flyers that people took away with them).

I can’t help feeling we were really lucky with the weather. It had been due to rain on Saturday, but fortunately, this failed to materialise. Sunday was gorgeous  -dry and sunny. I could complain about the breeze, and the difficulty of managing sheet music, I suppose, but that would just be picky, and possibly even churlish. And anyway, we don’t like to moan in our band.

If anyone wants to submit captions for any of the above, please do!

Programme alterations

We’ve changed a couple of things in our programme for this weekend:

• We’ve dropped the “January February March” (it was unseasonal) and have replaced it with “A bridge too far”.
• We’ve dropped the “Candide Suite” (I’m not sure why, to be honeste…) and have replaced it with “Young Amadeus”.

That’s it – two changes. See you Saturday, or Sunday, or both.

More concert details

The concert programme posted yesterday is for our concert at Southend bandstand on 5 September (3-5pm). We’re playing for slightly longer when we go to the Essex Country Show the following weekend (12-3pm on Sat and Sun), so our programme is a little different:

	Set 1	Set 2	Set 3
Opener	Strike Up the Band	Slava	Magnificent Seven
Slow	Barber Adagio	Hymn to the Fallen	Walking the Dog
March	January, February March	Death or Glory	Dambusters March
Selection	Cole Porter	Wicked	Keep Smiling Through
Light	Love is Here to Stay	Embraceable You	I Will Follow Him
Selection	In the Miller Mood	Westside Story Dances	Candide Suite
Slow	Moonlight Serenade	Nearness of You	Over the Rainbow
Swing / Ragtime	Miss Otis Regrets	Wrong Note Rag	String of Pearls
Finale	Westside Story Selection	New York , New York	Chicago