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Issue 12

For Sale!

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Do You Know This Man?

Building for the Future Appeal

Grammy Nomination

'The Score' Available Soon

The Story Continues...

'News Room' Archives

You can now buy the sound-track from "BABE - PIG IN THE CITY" on-line, direct from the Black Dyke Band. The Band feature on three tracks, including the Oscar Nominated "That'll Do" performed in collaboration with Peter Gabriel. Visit our Recordings pages for a full track listing, Real Audio sample and ordering details.

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Do You Know This Man?

Our intrepid reporter will soon be meeting for an informal chat with a legendary Black Dyke Band player who is now living in the North of England. Watch this space for news of what will no doubt be an enlightening conversation, full of stories and anecdotes from The Band's historical past.

Building For The Future Appeal Latest

Our "Building for the Future" appeal is now in full swing and we are receiving pledges from our followers worldwide. Many thanks to those of you who have already given your generous support to this worthy cause and don't forget to take a look at our Appeal Totaliser and see how your donation is helping us to reach our target of Ł100,000. For full details of this unique appeal and how you can help, please see the Appeal section of the web site.

Reflected in Brass Nominated for Grammy

The 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.

E-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.