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Shaken, Not Stirred! Concert

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On Sunday 15th April, the band presented Shaken, Not Stirred! featuring spectacular local artists alongside the band. The Bond themed night went off with a bang, and was truly spectacular as you would expect from your 007!

The band performed with and alongside the great local talent of Alexandra Slater, Jack Divers and Roc Vannin Choir. The interval cocktails shaken not stirred were served.

All funds raised from the evening are being donated to the Douglas Town Youth Band and Hospice Isle of Man. The current total to be split between these two great organisations is over £1,000 watch this space for final totals and presentations.

On the evening the Rotary Club of Douglas also presented a brand new Baritone Horn to the band more information about that can be found here. (http://douglastownband.org.im/2018/04/new-baritone-horn-and-youth-band-instruments/)

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For more pictures from the evening please check out our google photos album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/0ZHJJbjxdVmglHXB2

New Baritone Horn and Youth Band Instruments

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The band are very please to announce that thanks to the support of the Rotary Club of Douglas funds have been donated from the Lockington Marshall Trust. Meaning we will be able to purchase a new Baritone Horn for the Douglas Town Band and 5 cornets and 5 trombones for the Douglas Town Training Band.

The new Training Band Instruments are on their way and we will update the article with a picture once we have these.

 

Rotary Club of Douglas

 

 

New Baritone Horn

New Baritone Horn

Shaken, not stirred!

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Douglas Town Band are please to announce their next feature concert, which will take place on Sunday 15th April, 7pm start at St. Ninian's Church.

As we hope you can tell from the title this is a James Bond themed evening, which will feature the classic themes and some wonderful singing from local artists.

Tickets are available below:

Adult Ticket - £10

Concession Ticket - £5

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The evening will feature performances from Alexandra Slater, Jack Divers, Roc Vannin Choir and Douglas Town Band. All proceeds raised will be split between the Hospice Isle of Man and Douglas Town Youth Band.

Shaken, Not Stirred!

Blackpool 2018

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The band always have a busy January and February preparing for the North West Regional Championships which this year took place on the last weekend in February in Blackpool.

The band are in the 3rd Section and the set work for this year was Philip Harpers – Napoleon on the Alps.

The week before the contest is an intense week of rehearsals with our musical advisor Gordon Higginbottom. He is always ready to put the band through its paces and makes sure they are ready for the contest stage. The Thursday before we travelled we held our Open Rehearsals at St. Ninian’s Church so all our friends and family members could come and listen to the piece and see how are hard work was progressing.

Sunday is when the contest takes place and there were 16 other bands in our section. We were the 4th band to play and we came off the stage very happy with our performance. Then we wait for the results.

The results were then announced and the band had achieved 5th place! We were very happy with this result and our trophy to go with it. We then sat listening the rest of the results and to our delight we were also awarded with the best percussion prize! Well done to our percussion team on this fantastic achievement – Bethany, Terry and Bryce!

We would like to say a special thank you to the Isle of Man Steam Packet for their assistance and support with our travel to this years contest.

Here is the 4BarsRest write up of the contest – http://www.4barsrest.com/news/detail.asp?offset=40&id=32859

Fresh New Look for our 130th Anniversary!

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Douglas Town Band would like to say a huge thank you to Friends Provident International for sponsoring us and making it possible for us to get new outdoor jackets for all playing members.

The band haven’t replaced their outdoor jackets for many years, our previous ones were very tired and dated. Thanks to the kind support we have been able to bring the band a fresh new look with their new jackets which will mean we will be turning up to and representing the band in the same smart jackets.

Christmas 2017

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The band as always had a very busy Christmas with 15 jobs playing for over 30hrs and rehearsals for our Christmas concert.

We would like to say a massive thank you to everyone who supported the band at any of their events over the Christmas period this is much appreciated and such a key time of the year for the band.

130th Anniversary Spectacular

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It has been a special weekend celebrating the bands 130th Anniversary.

On Friday 24th November the band celebrated their 130th Anniversary in style, with a gala concert featuring the world famous Welsh male voice choir – Only Men Aloud.

The band opened the show by filling the Villa Marina Royal Hall with the sound of Goff Richards Fanfare for a New Age. It was then onto Principle Cornet player Robert Mitchell who gave a masterclass in playing, performing Children Of Sanchez by Chuck Mangione. Following this, the band then played Benedictus featuring Brian Mitchell on Euphonium before finishing off with Fire in the Blood by Paul Lovett-Cooper.

It was then over to Only Men Aloud who took to the stage and wow they were amazing. They performed several traditional welsh songs which were fantastic, as well as performing a compilation of James Bond tunes.

Picture from OMAniacs. A special mention to Joan and Lynn who are part of the OMAniacs fan club for joining us for the weekend, it was great to meet you ladies and thanks for the pictures!

After an exciting set from Only Men Aloud, the band the continued the 2nd half with a March written for their 120th Anniversary by their musical advisor Gordon Higgingbottom.

The band concluded their set by performing the showstopper ‘All that Jazz’ with some great choreography.

Picture from OMAniacs.

Only Men Aloud continued the night with several more well known pieces, including an arrangement of Amazing Grace and a Tom Jones medley which had the whole hall swaying to Dhelila.

The concert concluded with the band and Only Men Aloud joining forces in spectacular style performing Hymn to the fallen and a Disney Fantasy. To bring the night and they closed with an acappella version of Ellan Vannin with both groups singing together.

Douglas Town band would like to say a massive thank you to Only Men Aloud for this opportunity, it was thoroughly enjoyed by all and we couldn’t imagine a better way to celebrate our 130th Anniversary.

On Saturday morning the band invited all local choirs and budding vocalists along to a workshop with Paul, Craig and Steffan from Only Men Aloud.

This was a great workshop with them covering activities on technique, posture and breathing. They worked on a performance of White Christmas which was enough to warm anyone on a cold winters night. Why not have a listen to the final version of this the video is below.

Finally, we would like to finish off by thanking all our sponsors as without them, the event wouldn’t have happened. This weekend was supported by the Isle of Man Arts Council.

Armistice Parade and Service 2017

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Yesterday, Sunday 12th November 2017, the band were proud to lead the Douglas Armistice parade from the Manx Legion to St. Thomas’ church and the war memorial.

We then played hymns for the service, following this we marched down to the war memorial where Robert Mitchell played the last post and reveille and the Band played as wreaths were laid by the islands communities.

Following this we lead the procession back to the Manx Legion. This was a very poignant service, we would like to thank everyone involved.

More pictures can be seen here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/AzCEhNUPBpMqjKJD3

Christmas is Coming!

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To round off our 130th celebratory year our Christmas concert will feature, our Youth Band, Ballacottier School Choir and Douglas Town Band. In what promises to be an evening to get you in the festive spirit and will entertain all the family.

The event is taking place at St. Ninian’s Church, on Saturday 16th December – 7.30pm start, doors open 7pm. Get your tickets now!

Tickets are available now from Peter Norris Music, 54 Bucks Road, Douglas IM1 3AD or online below:

Adults – £10

(Inc. Mince Pie and Mulled Wine)




Children – £5

(Inc. Mince Pie and Hot Vimto)




Family  – £25

(2 adults and up to 3 children)




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Open Workshop with Only Men Aloud!

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We are proud to present in association with the Isle of Man Arts Council an open workshop with Only Men Aloud! This will take place on Saturday 25th November at 10am in the Villa Marina, Promenade Suite.

Everyone is welcome all you need to do is register your place via our online registration from here – http://douglastownband.org.im/2017/08/registration-for-the-only-men-aloud-workshop

OMA Workshop

If you would like any more information please email secretary@douglastownband.org.im or call 07624 469076