IT’S already been an exciting year for Sellers International Youth Band. Now the young musicians are back in town doing what they do best – entertaining audiences and making money for charity.
The band will be at St Paul’s Hall in Huddersfield on Sunday in an event that they have called A Champion Celebration Concert.
The most recent reason for the celebrations is the band’s win in the National Championship of the Advanced Section at the Royal Northern College of Music.
Sunday’s concert begins at 7pm and will open with the programme that the band played at the National Youth Entertainment Championships earlier this year in Blackpool, where they were placed second for the actual musical performance.
The concert will raise money for Guide Dogs for the Blind, the charity with which the young musicians are
closely associated.
There will be a celebratory air to the concert, conducted by the band’s musical director Mark Bousie. But there will also be an air of sadness as 11 of the musicians will be leaving Sellers this summer because of age restrictions in the youth section.
And on that subject, Sellers International Youth Band, who are this year’s National Youth Brass Band Champions, are holding an open rehearsal on July 3 (7pm) with David Thornton, international brass soloist and principal euphonium with Black Dyke Band.
It is a chance to discover the musical rewards and sheer fun of playing in one of the country’s top youth bands.
If you are 19 and play a brass instrument, you’ll receive a warm welcome. Players of all abilities are invited and even if you’ve never played a brass instrument, now’s your chance to find out what you are missing.
Call Mark Bousie for details on 07971 527039 or email him at bousieeuph@hotmail.com, or call Paul Smith on 07916585352 or Christine Edwards on 077928911845.
