Victory for Wellington Brass as they retain their National title on home ground with section accolades for Auckland City Brass, Upper Hutt Brass, North Shore Brass Academy and Auckland City Youth Band.
Victory for Wellington Brass as they retain their National title on home ground with section accolades for Auckland City Brass, Upper Hutt Brass, North Shore Brass Academy and Auckland City Youth Band.
We re the oldest boy band in Ireland
Chris Dunne interviews the authors of a new book on the bands of Bandon.
Michael McCarthy and Jerry Larkin, who wrote 100 years of Bandon Bands
Chris Dunne
THE town of Bandon has a long tradition of music and many people all over Cork will recall those halcyon days dancing at the crossroads, dancing in the ballrooms of romance, and rocking n’rolling in dance-halls and marquees all over the country.
“As a musician or a band, you know you’re doing something right when you get booked to play at a wedding in two years’ time!” says Michael McCarthy, of The Old Town Hall Band.