What a night! A full hall, outstanding soloists, a band giving its all and a great evening of praise. The evening proved to be a great opener for our new season of 2012-13. The event was enthusiastically reported in The SA Bandsmen by Jim Wilson.
Author archives: Melvyn James
Visit to Reading Central
The band were pleased to contribute to a building fund event at the Reading Corps with the support of the Reading Central Songsters. The corps provided refreshments before the commencement of the Festival which included some well established numbers from the bands current repertoire. After opening up with Kevin Norbury’s Orwell Park, we Breezed Down […]
LCFB in Belfast
Liverpool and the Mersey, the birthplace of much of Britannia’s mighty navy including the first two Ark Royal aircraft carriers, and once described as “the Gateway to the new world” greeted the LCFB’s intrepid answer to Eddie Stobart, Don Jenkins and Mel James. It was a June Friday evening, the promenade at New Brighton looked […]
Stotfold Salvation Army Anniversary Celebrations
With a capacity crowd, the LCFB, with the support of Letchworth Songsters, provided an Anniversary Festival at the hall in Church Road. Saturday evening event was an introduction to the week end celebrations led by Commissioners Alex and Ingeborg Hughes . The event was reported in Salvationist…. Clique on….
An evening of fine music making
A capacity crowd greeted the LCFB and Enfield Citadel Band in a joint concert at Ipswich Citadel. It was a time of happy Salvationist music making enhanced by several father and son relationships linking the two bands. It was good to meet up with KEITH NICE, conductor of The Suffolk Phoenix Band and a former […]
New names on the home pitch
The LCFB at Barnet 31st March 2012 The band has a close association with Barnet SA Corps, not least because it has band room facilities and rehearses at the corps’ hall in Albert Road. The Saturday evening concert proved to be rather cosy given the congregation of both band and audience within the small confines […]
Tiptree Encourage the Encouragers
February saw the band in deepest Essex at St Luke’s Parish Church,Tiptree for its first concert of the new year. Some time before the opening bars of Orwell Park, it was apparent that more chairs were required to satisfy the growing numbers eagerly arriving. A varied musical feast was provided, which, whilst building on previous […]
LCFB plays Birmingham Symphony Hall
LCFB brought its 2011 season to a close on 29 November with a successful visit to the Symphony Hall in Birmingham to play to an audience of some 1,500, gathered for the Extra Care Charitable Trust 2011 World in Union Concert. The event also included other special guests Tom O’Connor, Rustie Lee, Gary Lovini and […]
Pre-Christmas Concert at Lovat Fields Retirement Village, Milton Keynes
The band returned to Lovat Fields Village, Milton Keynes on 26 November 2011 to start the Christmas season, and played to an audience of over 200. Having taken the opportunity to arrive early and “exercise their plastic” at the shopping centres in Milton Keynes, the band started its concert with the classy march Orwell Park, […]
‘Bandology’ CD Review: The Salvationist
In the 19th November 2011 edition of the Salvationist, the weekly newspaper for members and friends of The Salvation Army, Dean Jones reviewed LCFB’s latest CD Bandology. Among many positive comments, Jones commented “The band has put together a vast array of music sacred and secular encompassing enough diversity to give every listener something to […]