Loughborough Concert Band

The wonderful All Saints’ Church in Thurcaston was the venue for our October concert. The church is a lovely place to play and the enthusiastic audience are always very receptive to our performance. In fact the evening is a very sociable occasion with wine and nibbles available during the interval and always has a relaxed feel.

This year was our 12th visit here and although the theme of “Music from Stage and Screen” may have been familiar the band brought a programme with many new pieces for 2024, including a selection from The Greatest Showman, Here There and Everywhere (The Beatles - played during an episode of “Friends”), The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Hawaii Five-O and the Magnificent Seven. Paula Gardner was the soloist for the beautiful Gabriel’s Oboe from Morricone’s music to The Mission.

One new piece “Stahl Himmel” presented compere Eddie Pearson with a conundrum of how it linked with the theme for the concert. Eddie skilfully described a fictitious film about German miners who come across to Scotland to meet their counterparts and the music describes the “Steel Skies” found there. If that film is ever made then surely Stahl Himmel would be a part of it.

At the end of the concert the vicar described how water had been pouring through the roof of the church only a few weeks beforehand, and the band was pleased to learn that the concert had raised around £500 towards the repairs.

Our next concert will be at the Hodson Hall with the Charnwood Community Singers on 30th November at 7pm raising money for Beacon Rotary.