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Any Special Offers or Promotions mentioned in the News Room Archives are no longer current. As such, we are unable to honour any request that relate to these promotions.

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Issue 10

Building For The Future Appeal Announced
Appeal
Other Headlines
Grammy Nomination
Comings and Goings
Latest Prize Draw Winners
'The Score' Available Soon
The Story Continues...
'News Room' Archives

Details of the Black Dyke Band "Building for the Future" appeal have recently been announced. For full details of this unique appeal and how you can help, please see the new Appeal section of the web site.

Reflected in Brass Nominated for Grammy
Reflected in BrassThe Black Dyke news room was buzzing with excitement this week following the announcement that 'Reflected in Brass' has been nominated for a Grammy Award by The Recording Academy. This ground breaking album, featuring the Black Dyke Band playing alongside the world renown percussionist Evelyn Glennie, has been nominated in the category Best Classical Crossover Album. The 41st Annual Grammy Awards presentation will be held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on the 24th February 1999 and I'm sure you'll join all of us in the news room in wishing Evelyn and The Band the best of luck.

To find out more about this, and other  recordings by the Black Dyke Band, check out our Recordings pages.

Comings and Goings
Les McCormackIt is with great regret that we announce the retirement of Leslie McCormack, The Band's Solo Horn player. Les recently gained promotion in his "day job" and this, coupled with the associated international travel, leaves him little time for Band commitments. We all wish him well with his new ventures.

Lesley Howie

Fortunately, following a very impressive audition, Lesley Howie has filled the Solo Horn position and has already taken part in her first concert in the Central Hall, York. Lesley comes from Ayrshire in Scotland and is at present studying at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester. Full details of Lesley's appointment can be found in the next edition of The Bugle.

Special OfferLatest Prize Draw Winners Announced

As our regular readers will know, visitors spending £10 or more on recordings or other merchandise qualify for free entry into our monthly prize draw. See our special offer page for more details. Here is a list of our latest winners:

December 1998 Draw:
A Black Dyke Band CD goes to Daniel L. Greene of Greenville U.S.A. Congratulations Daniel!
Runners up prizes of Black Dyke Band Pens go to Caroline Johnson from Newcastle under Lyme and Dennis Martin of Huddersfield.

January 1999 Draw:
A Black Dyke Band CD goes to Goran Gramby from Halmstad, Sweden. Well done Goran!
Runners up prizes of Black Dyke Band Pens go to Geoff Williams of the Australian Platypus Conservancy, Victoria, Australia and Philip H. Lathrop of Canton, Ohio, U.S.A.

The ScoreE-Mail Newsletter 'The Score' Available Soon
Fed up with coming to the Black Dyke web site and finding no new information? Well, we will shortly be putting together a regular electronic newsletter which we intend to distribute to all registered Black Dyke Band web site visitors. Called 'The Score' it will contain information on what's happening on the web site including news, special offers and competitions and will contain 'hyperlinks' to all the updated content. Remember, you will only receive 'The Score' if you have registered with us. See the Registration pages for more details.

The Story Continues...
Our dedicated administrator, Geoffrey Whiteley, has just released the second part of the band's history. Originally entitled 'THE BAND' Part II, the story continues from 1860 and features on of the bands great players, Phineas 'Phinny' Bowers.
CONCERT NEWS

Full Concert Schedule
The Concerts/Events listing has now been extended up to December 1999. It is advisable to book early for any of these events as they soon become sold out.

'News Room' Archives
Their have been quite a few changes to the 'News Room' pages over the past few months and we are now on Issue 7. Some visitors may not have had chance to read previous issues so we have set up an archive list below which will enable visitors to catch up on any news they may have missed. Although the contents of these pages will be intact, some of the links may be out of date and we apologise for this. The effort involved in ensuring that links are current is considerable and this time is better spent on maintaining the more up to date areas of the site. The archive list begins from issue 6, if you require information from earlier articles then please let us know and we will see what we can do.