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Any Special Offers or Promotions
mentioned in the News Room Archives are no longer current. As such, we
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Black Dyke
News
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Issue 9
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Reflected in Brass Nominated for Grammy
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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. |
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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 which him well with his new ventures.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. Hopefully we will post a picture of the new Black Dyke horn section in Meet the Band
soon. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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CONCERT
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Full Concert Schedule |
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| 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. |
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| 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.
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