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Issue 14

The Black Dyke Band on location with the Ground Force Team

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Historic Day for Black Dyke

'The Score' Available Soon

The Story Continues...

'News Room' Archives

The Black Dyke Band are very proud to announce the release of their latest CD, featuring music from the highly successful BBC television gardening series "Ground Force". The programme, which features gardening guru Alan Titchmarsh, regularly captures audiences of 12.5 million plus and the CD includes pieces specially written for the series by Jim Parker. If you would like to hear the title track or purchase this CD direct from us then please visit the recordings section of our site.

Historic Day for Black Dyke

A Message From The President of The Band:

Through the generosity of many people the Charity has been able to complete the purchase of the historic Queensbury Bandroom. As President I was delighted to receive the Deeds of the property on behalf of the Trustees and now along with my colleagues look forward to the exciting stage of refurbishment and development. The Band has rehearsed in the Bandroom since 1855 and the present members are proud to be a part of such a distinguished heritage and are conscious of the need to maintain the high standards of musicianship and deportment for which the Band is famous. The real work of transforming the premises into a Centre of Excellence for Music, particularly the playing of brass instruments, now begins. To achieve all its objectives the Charity still needs to raise some Ł300, 000 which we trust will be partially funded by a grant from the National Lottery. However we hope the supporters of the Black Dyke Band throughout the world will realise how much the Band appreciates and relies on their backing. I do hope that those people who are still considering the best way to encourage the realisation of the aims of the Charity will decide that the special place occupied by Black Dyke Band in our National Heritage warrants their continuing wholehearted support. For now, a sincere thank you to the many individuals and organisations who have helped us to achieve this historic step of owning our own Bandroom.

Donald Hanson.

Our "Building for the Future" appeal continues to be a major source of funding for the above project and we would be pleased to receive any pledge 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.

We have a special offer on the cassette version of our celebrated collaboration with Edward Gregson. For a limited period this recording can be purchased direct from ourselves for only Ł4.80 including postage and packing. For more details on the Gregson recording and to take advantage of this unique offer please visit the Recordings section of the site.

Commemorative Plate Now Available

This unique collectors item has been specially manufactured in the UK to commemorate the founding and development of the Black Dyke "Centre of Excellence", which will be based at the new bandroom. The ornamental plate is 10³/4 Inches (27cm) in diameter and features historical information about the band and costs just Ł20.00. A brief history and illustration of the new bandroom is depicted on the reverse of the plate. Please refer to the Merchandise pages for ordering details.

Pig For Sale!

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.

Reflected in Brass Nominated for Grammy

The Black Dyke news room was buzzing with excitement following the announcement that 'Reflected in Brass' had 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, was nominated in the category Best Classical Crossover Album in the 41st Annual Grammy Awards.

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

Our international supporters will be pleased to hear advanced details of two concerts in the new year. The band will be playing at the John Grabb Theatre, Cedarbrea Collegiate, TORONTO, Canada on February 7th 2000. This concert is being organised by our friends at Hannaford Street Silver Band as part of their International Celebration. Tickets may be ordered by calling the St. Lawrence Box Office on (416) 366 7723. The band also have the privilege of playing at the Bermuda Festival on February 4th and 5th 2000. The festival phone number is 441 295 1291.

We are pleased to announce a very special gala concert featuring the Black Dyke Band to be held at the Poole Arts Centre's Wessex Concert Hall on Saturday 18th March 2000 at 7:30pm. For tickets and more information please contact the Pool Arts Centre Box Office on 01202 685222.

Don't forget that our full concert schedule can be found in the Events section of our site. This has recently been updated to include concerts up to March 2000.

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.