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Feilding Brass to return to national stage
Paul Mitchell
10:46, Jun 05 2019
Feilding Brass musical director Carissa Davies, centre, will lead the band to its first national championship in six years.
Feilding Brass musical director Carissa Davies, centre, will lead the band to its first national … View moreFeilding Brass to return to national stage
Paul Mitchell
10:46, Jun 05 2019
Feilding Brass musical director Carissa Davies, centre, will lead the band to its first national championship in six years.
Feilding Brass musical director Carissa Davies, centre, will lead the band to its first national championship in six years.
Feilding's brass band is trumpeting its return to the national stage after a six-year hiatus.
Feilding Brass will compete in the New Zealand Brass Band Championship in Hamilton in July.
Band president Stephen Lawton said it would be the first time many of its members would play on a national stage. The last championship the band attended was in New Plymouth in 2013, but this was the first year since then they had been able to raise the money required to attend the competition.
Lawton said everyone in the near 30-piece band had pitched in toward the $4000-$5000 needed to get to Hamilton. And while all the band members were fundraising or paying their own costs, the group was still seeking funding to help ease the burden.
Feilding Brass was the only Manawatū band able to make it to the championships this year and its members were ecstatic, Lawton said.
"But we've got a couple of band members from Palmerston North helping us out, and a couple more from Levin. Without them we wouldn't be going either. Us country bands have to look out for each other."
Carissa Davies took over as the band's musical director 18 months ago and this will be her first time leading the group on the national stage.
"We're really excited. It's an amazing chance to represent Manawatū and I think we'll do ourselves credit on the day," she said
The band is in the middle of an intense practice schedule, hoping to perfect the main test piece each band has to play.
Feilding Brass' grade will play Penlee, a piece about a 1981 lifeboat disaster that killed 16 people off the English coast, near Cornwall.
But Davies was keeping a lid on the other pieces the band has chosen to play.
Each piece is announced, but the band playing it is kept secret to keep things impartial. Bands had to be careful not to accidentally identify themselves, she said.
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May and June, sees Feilding Brass rehearsing solidly for the 2019 New Zealand Brass Band Championships being held in Hamilton this year from the 10th-14th July.
Feilding Brass will be competing in the C Grade section alongside equally capable bands in an event which will see over 25 bands from … View moreMay and June, sees Feilding Brass rehearsing solidly for the 2019 New Zealand Brass Band Championships being held in Hamilton this year from the 10th-14th July.
Feilding Brass will be competing in the C Grade section alongside equally capable bands in an event which will see over 25 bands from around NZ playing in grades A-D.
As with any national contest, it consists of Solo and party events starting on Wednesday 10th July, leading up to the band events on the Friday 12th and Saturday 13th July.
On the Friday, bands will play their Sacred Item and Test piece. The test piece for each grade is set by the association so the adjudicator has to listen to many renditions of the same piece to find the one who played the best. Also on this day will be the parade of bands where competing bands will march through the Hamilton streets.
On the Saturday, bands will play their Own Choice piece which each band can choose to best bring out their skills and music-ship.
On the Sunday, there will be a Gala Concert – Featuring Chicago Brass Band, Hamilton City Brass & Guest Soloists Harmen Vanhoorne, Trevor Bremner and Murray Borthwick.
For more information about the contest, times etc, click the link brasschamps2019.nz...
This years Test Piece is called Penlee. It is written about a lifeboat disaster in which 16 people died off the Cornwall Coast in 1981. Click on the link to see Drogheda Brass Band from Ireland playing it onstage.
This year, the adjudicator for the C Grade competition is Graham Hickman, who started his brass band career in Feilding.
As like last year, this years contest is being live streamed by Brassbanned , so you will be able to see all the action if you can’t be there.
As you can imagine our Musical Director and Drum Major are busily getting Feilding Brass into shape with Wednesday and Sunday rehearsals with every player digging deep to get things done. If you hear us around town making noises, its ok. We will be having marching practice at the old WritePrice supermarket carpark, weather permitting.
The band wishes to acknowledge the support we get from family of our players as contest rehearsal takes up a bit of family time, but is much appreciated as we go and represent the Manawatu at a National level.
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