The band at rehearsal

On 13 December Richard played the trumpet at the annual event he helps organise, always on the second Saturday in December, at the Friends’ Meeting House in Cedar Road. There is a tea for elderly local residents each month on the second Saturday organised by our good friends the Quakers. Every December the afternoon tea is given over to a carol concert and Richard’s band – the Phoenix Concert Band – provides musicians. This year we again had a dozen players on brass, saxophones flutes and clarinets. The band played some arrangements of Christmas music and some popular carols, including Hark the Herald Angels Sing, Silent Night and O Little Town of Bethlehem.

The band playing last year