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Just because you’re self-isolating doesn’t mean you can’t still go to band on Thursday nights… #FriendshipOfMusic @abingdonconcertband #music #friends 🎶🎵🎷🎺🎼
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without some Christmas carols with @abingdonconcertband at @milletsfarm… #christmas🎄 #carols #music 🎵🎶🎼🎺🎷
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We’ve only gone and done it again! @abingdonconcertband take #gold🥇 at the @ncbf_festival national competition! #windband #musicinspires #music 📯🎺🎶🎵🎼
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Listening to wind at @ncbf_festival… #music
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Listening to #MauriceAndré playing Handel’s Trumpet Concertos (albeit on CD not over-played cassette) still evokes 35 year old memories of reading Arthur Ransomes Missee Lee and still inspires me creatively. ••• What music and listening format still brings back those…
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“Somewhere, from a far off room a tune made it’s way out – oboe or flute – lilting out through the stillness” ••• Love it when *that* music makes its first appearance in #MrTumnal3: #ForgottenFriends. @neilbrownless and @abingdonconcertband are familiar…
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#Repost @abingdonconcertband • • • • • It’s that exciting time of year again – our Christmas concert poster is out, as well as tickets for the event. We’ve got a wonderfully narrated show full of festive faves, including one…
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Entertaining the people of Henley with music for a summer’s afternoon in the park… #windband #concertband #music #summermusic @abingdonconcertband
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The Music Shop by Rachel Joyce Everyone knows the power of music to transform lives don’t they? It’s why music is so important. It’s why it’s so sad that when governments through the ages look for things to cut they cut the…
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Celebrating @abingdonconcert band’s 40th anniversary with ???? and ????! #beer #music #concertband #windband #pubgarden
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#1HappyYear Day 344: With a little help from your friends… #music and @abingdonconcert can get me through the next seven driving-free months #100HappyDays
Continue readingI’ve never been one for making the big New Year’s Resolutions that are forgotten by the end of the first month (if not the first week) of the new year. But I do like to take stock and try to…
Continue readingOn Friday afternoon, Emma and I trekked over to Suffolk for the weekend. I say trekked because it was a long, slow, journey that coincided with rush-hours in several parts of the country, but we made it – just before…
Continue readingTonight, Abingdon Concert Band embarked on something a bit different. Dan and Kirstie from the 4bar Collective showed up to record us for Track V of their project that sees them tour the country (the world too!) recording musicians wherever…
Continue readingMr Tumnal has an eclectic taste in music. His music collection is entirely vinyl and (mostly) cassette, with some recent additions on CD, thus, Kathryn buys him an iPod which she has engraved for him: For your music collection and…
Continue readingEmma’s mum and dad saw Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty when it was on in London and loved it so much that decided too take us to see it when can’t on your to High Wycombe. Now to be fair I don’t much…
Continue readingTake On Me – a-ha Fáum aldrei nóg – írafár Into Temptation – Crowded House Warrant – Foster The People Banba Oir – Clannad West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys Hey Buddy – Nina Simone With This Love –…
Continue readingEmma is on nights this weekend, and so, with the chances that a large part of tomorrow will be spent asleep, we headed out this morning with the aim of spending as much time as possible outdoors enjoying the weather….
Continue readingI’ve just done the roundup of status updates from the year on facebook and I was reminded of this little gem I quoted from Marcus Brigstock: the big question is do I dare hit ‘shuffle songs’ and risk the horror…
Continue readingIts been a while since I’ve done one of these. I start the day; I plug my earphones in and set the iPod on random. At best its an eclectic mix, so skipping†, no lies, just the whole shameful truth….
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