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| Band Events - 2004 |
| for the latest news from the bandroom, click here...... 25th December - Our last carols of the year were played at the community hospital in Ystradgynlais and at the Grove and Cwrt Enfys resedential homes. 24th December - The last of three consecutive days spent playing at supermarkets. We played at Tesco in Llanelli on Wednesday, Tesco in Pontardawe yesterday and at the Co-op in Ystrad this morning. A group also went to Ystrad square today but were a little hampered by the weather. We also played at the Con Club in Ystrad this evening. 21st December - The Band played at the Annual Carol Service at St Cynog's. Our items in the programme were New York New York and En Aranjuez Con Tu Amor. 20th December - Our last night of street carolling this year took us around Maes Cynog, Station Road (to the police station) and the side streets at the bottom of Brecon Road. 18th December - Another visit to Tesco Extra in Fforestfach. 17th December - Our second tour of local pubs took us from the Gwyn Arms past Dan yr Ogof back down to Ystradgynlais. 15th December - We played at the Tesco store in Neath Abbey. 13th December - More carols in Glanrhyd, covering Wind Road, Croesfyrdd, Tudor Street and Dumfries Place. 12th December - We played at the Tesco Extra store in Fforestfach. 10th December - Our first Christmas pub crawl took us from Cwmtwrch to Glanrhyd. 8th December - We visited Tawe Park last night and tonight played in Glantawe Park, Tan y Farteg and Alder Avenue. 6th December - In spite of the rain, we managed to complete Rhestr Fawr before our carol books got too wet. 5th December - Tonight's carolling session took us to Cwmgiedd and Oddfellow Street. With three cornets, three euphoniums, four collectors and lots of empty houses, we finished in record time! 4th December - We played at the Co-op in Ystradgynlais with the junior band joining us for the first hour. 27th November - Our Christmas activities got underway with a visit to the Festive Market at Castle Square, Swansea. 5th September - We participated in a Noson Lawen at the showground in Sennybridge with Brecon Male Voice Choir. The audience was delighted by our performance of our Eisteddfod winning programme, along with New York New York, I Will Follow Him and Final Countdown. 15th August - Our summer barbecue was held at the Ynyscedwyn Arms. Aled won the Weakest Link quiz, after the previous winner, Carwyn, got voted off in the first round this time. The team quiz was won by the team of Wyn, Cadi, Catryn and Greg. 7th August - A quartet from the Band played at a wedding in Myddfai near Llandovery. As well as the hymns we played as the congregation arrived, we had to arrange four pieces for the service, including 'Everything I Do I Do It For You' which we played as the bride walked down the aisle. 31st July - We won first prize in our competition at the National Eisteddfod in Newport. Click here to find out more! 6th July - Our Annual Concert was held at the welfare hall in Ystradgynlais. We were joined by Penrhos and Ynysgedwyn schools. It was our first full concert with Angharad conducting and we are delighted with the outcome. Attendance was much better than expected given the short notice and lack of publicity and the Band performed a programme that was greeted with universal approval. Thanks to Charles and Catryn for compering without any notice, to Karen for running the door and the raffle, Wyn for coping with the 'surprise item' so magnificently and everyone else involved in ensuring that the concert was a success. 3rd July - We played at the community hospital fete. For the first time, it was held inside because of the weather and we had to play in the exercise room. 27th June - The Band took part in a concert to mark the 25th anniversary of the Alzheimer's Association in Ystradgynlais. 15th May - Another contest: this time in Ebbw Vale. We came fifth in the third section playing Eric Ball's 'In Switzerland'. Thanks to Wyn, Catryn and Greg for coming back from university to join us. 14th March - We are pleased to report a good result at the regional contest in Swansea. The Band came in a respectable 7th place out of nineteen bands in the section. For some reason, we have historically had poor results at this competition and this is our best showing there for 10 years. We were the smallest band at the contest and probably the first in the history of the event to perform with no trombones... Several rewrites of the music ensured that all of the parts were covered and, judging by the performance of some of the other bands' trombonists, we were much better off as we were! Congratulations to Angharad who has taken on the job of conducting - this was the first time that she has done this at a contest and the adjudicator found no fault at all with the musical direction of the piece. In fact he commented on the high standard of the second and third movements. If we had not made a few avoidable slips in the opening section and remembered to take the triangle, the result could have been really good! 27th February - The Band played at a 50th birthday party held at the Manor Park in Clydach. |