Douglas Town Band are please to announce their 2018 Gala Concert, which will take place on Saturday 3rd November, 8pm start at St. Ninian's Church.
It promises to be a amazing evening with an extraordinary soloist! Check Lionel out on YouTube if you don't believe us. Once you have done that you can book your tickets below:
Adult Ticket - £10
Concession Ticket - £7
Child Ticket - £5
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We are proud to annouce once again we will be working with the fantastic Alexandra Slater, this time as she hosts and Audience with her and her friends. Raising funds for the Hospice Isle of Man.
The concert will be on Saturday 29th September at 7.30pm at the Gaiety Theatre – get your tickets now at the Villa & Gaiety Website or the Welcome Centre
We would like to thank the Isle of Man Arts Council for their continued support of the Islands Brass Bands running the Summer Brass Band Series concerts in the Villa Marina Arcade.
We have played several times this year with great audiences each time. These concerts are vital to the band and it is a great chance for us to get out of the band room and perform. Thank you to all the audience members who have come from far and wide to see us you support, is appreciated.
This is the first time Garff Commissioners have put this event on and what a great afternoon of music it was. Well done to everyone involved in the organisation and all the supporters on the day.
Three Bands took part Ramsey Town Band, Castletown Metropolitan Silver Band and ourselves – Douglas Town Band.
There were three venues: The Mines Tavern, The Bridge and The Queens. The Bands all started at different venues at 2pm and played a short 20minute programme before moving onto the next venue.
We started at Mines Tavern then went onto the Queens and finished at the Bridge. Following this there was then a massed bands in the village square.
We really enjoyed this and there was a great and appreciative crowd at all the venues.
The massed bands finished off the afternoon in style with 75+ musicians playing 3 marches conducted by the MDs for each band, then Ellan Vannin conducted by Ian Cottier, then afternoon of music rounded up with the Manx National Anthem.
Below is the Massed Bands Playing the DTB March thanks to David Kneale for sharing this with us.
Below is the Massed Bands Playing Ellan Vannin thanks to Jennifer Wade for sharing this with us.
For more videos from the event check out our YouTube Playlist – https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB9n0k9drumTFOd0KhL5Fb94vQnDU8GwD
Then the awards were presented – Best presented went to Ramsey Town Band and both Castletown Metropolitan Band and Douglas Town Band were presented with certificates of Excellence. Ramsey Town Band took the overall prize for the afternoon.
It was a fab afternoon and we hope that Garff Commissioners turn this into an annual event.
For more pictures of this great event please check out our Google Photos Album here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ih9nSg1L8hCV3vs23
Yesterday morning (Sunday 6th May) the Band played for Rogation Sunday, a tradition the Band has fulfilled for many years. The Band lead the procession from St. Matthews Church to the top of the harbour where there was a short service. They then led the procession back to the church. It was a glorious morning for the service.
If you would like to see any other pictures or videos these can be seen here: https://photos.app.goo.gl/wttipp7pd4Eh8i6S6
Over the weekend the band took part in the 2018 Manx Music Festival – http://www.manxmusicfestival.org/
On the Saturday the junior Ensemble class DTB Youth Band came 2nd with Does your mother know!
Ensemble Entry 2018
Pictured above the group took part in the Brass Ensemble Open Class with Someone to Watch over me finishing 3rd!
Emily (Right 2nd row in picture above) also took part in the Adult Solo Class scoring a very respectable 85 in a very tough class!
Then on the Sunday it was the bands turn. We were entered into all classes.
First up it was the Test Piece Class where the band played Paul Lovatt-Cooper’s Fire in The Blood and came 2nd.
Then it was onto the March and Hymn Tune Class followed by the Entertainments Class, for the Entertainments Class the band bought the bond theme with them from their Shaken, Not Stirred concert the weekend before and this went down a treat with the audience who loved it.
We were really pleased with all of our results for the evening these can be seen below:
Hymn results
= 3. Douglas Town Band 87
March results
= 5. Douglas Town Band 85
Entertainment programme results
3. Douglas Town Band 90
Most Entertaining Programme: Douglas Town Band
Guild 2018
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/)
For more pictures from the evening please check out our google photos album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/0ZHJJbjxdVmglHXB2
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.
New Baritone Horn
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.
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