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Napier RSA Concert November 2023

We’ll be presenting our concert on Sunday 19 November at the Napier RSA. Here’s the concert programme:
Band:
Scotland the Brave bracket
My Home/Skye Boat Song/Maori Canoe Song
Green Hills of Tyrol & When the Battle’s O’er
The Crags of Tumbledown Mountain/King Charles III
Loch Lomond/Blue Bells of Scotland/Bonnie Lass o’ Fyvie O’
On the Road to Passchendaelle/Land of My Youth/My Home Town
Group 1 – Slow air & jigs: Mermaid Song/Banjo Breakdown/Paddy’s Leather Breeches
Group 2 – Slow air & marches: Morag of Dunvegan/Mhari’s Wedding & Heyken’s Serenade
Learners:
Dancers – Highland Fling
Small groups/solo items
Music Group
Dancers: Irish Jig or Sailors Hornpipe (tbc)
Band with Music Group
Amazing Grace
Flower of Scotland
Highland Cathedral
Bells of Dunblane
Hector the Hero
Auld Lang Syne
Finale: Scotland the Brave/Will Ye Now Come Back/ Scotland the Brave

Art Deco Concert Feb23

The Band is staging it’s 2023 Art Deco Concert on Saturday 18 February at 2.30pm. The venue is the St Paul’s Church, Tennyson St. The following is the tune list for the concert:
Green Hills & When the Battle’s O’er
Morag of Dunvegan
Scotland the Brave bracket
Leaving of Liverpool bracket
Thomas Sander bracket
Wings bracket
Mhari’s Wedding & Heyken’s Serenadee

The following tunes will be played with the music group
Highland Cathedral
A Love Song for Deborah Anne
Hector the Hero
The Wellerman
Castle Dangerous/Land of My Youth
Amazing Grace
Flower of Scotland
Scotland the Brave

Bus times from Nelson Park to St Paul’s:  10:45  & 11:15 for the morning parades and 1:30pm & 2pm for the concert.

The bust will do return trips Saint Pauls Church to Nelson Park from 4pm.

Note to band members – we will be practicing at the church on Monday 13th at 7pm. Click here for details of the music arrangements.

December Music

The Summerset Palms event has been cancelled so we’re doing an impromptu concert at St Paul’s Church on Sunday 19th December starting at 2pm. Here’s the list of tunes:

First Half:
– Mhari’s Wedding/Heyken’s Serenade
– Skye Boat Song/Maori Canoe Song
– Leaving of Liverpool/Kelly the Boy from Killane/No Awa Tae Bide awa/The Minstrel Boy/Will Ye No Come Back Again
– Morag of Dunvegan, Athol Highlanders
– Green Hills/Battle is O’er
– Nurse Edith Cavell

Music Group:
– Hettie’s Waltz
– The Wellerman
– The Hills of Argyle
– Silver Threads Among the Gold
– A Love Song for Deborah Anne
– The Londonderry Air

Second Half
– Flower of Scotland
– The Mists of Time
– Hector the Hero
– Highland Cathedral
– Amazing Grace
– Scotland the Brave