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If anyone had doubts about the vibrancy of Adelaide’s music scene a visit to this year’s Mitcham Band Festival would have quickly dispelled them. Brass bands, concert bands, army and navy bands, bands for young and old, professionals and relative beginners – the variety on…

Vikings and blacksmiths may be an unusual pairing, but they were the stars of Campbelltown and Mitcham’s joint pre-state competition programme. Hymn, test piece and concert march are the traditional components of a band contest, requiring the mastery of different musical styles as well as…

Battles with Orcs, death-defying chariot rides, time travel, lion and wolf wrangling, waterfall surfing on a crucifix, exile in Ancient Egypt and disappearing down rabbit holes – our Spirit of Adventure concert had it all. Perhaps the most intrepid adventurer was MD Peter Smith. We…

It has become a tradition for Campbelltown Band to dedicate at least one concert each year to raising funds for charitable organisations. Earlier this year we supported the Red Shield Appeal and recently we joined with Brilliant Brass and the St Ignatius Stage Band in…

Floods, homelessness, a seemingly never-ending pandemic, war, refugees - 2022 is turning out to be another “difficult” year – and it’s at times like this that many people “thank God for the Salvos”. Campbelltown Band was honoured to join with the Adelaide Congress Hall Band…

At a time when some of us are still rather nervous about venturing overseas, Campbelltown Band decided to go for broke in our recent Fringe concert. After all, surely travel to Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, or even a day trip to the moon should be Covid…

Playing in a brass band can involve some interesting experiences but seeing the floor opening up beside you as a Mighty Wurlitzer theatre organ rises up from the depths has got to be one of the most unusual. Our final engagement for 2021 was a…

Well, at least we had carols this year, albeit in what we hope will turn out to be a unique format. No parade, no singing, only ticket holders admitted, socially distanced family groups, covid marshals…..but, on the positive side, the children loved the Ticklish Allsorts,…

What exactly is the essence of brass – apart from the opener to the second half of our 2021 fund raiser concert? Dictionaries don’t help. “The core nature or most important qualities of a person or thing”? Hmmm…. That’s rather vague. Maybe it’s like vanilla…

Welcome to Spring in the Hills? At 9.30am it was about 8 degrees with enough of a gentle breeze to blow the music around – but no rain. Be thankful for small mercies we thought as we shivered through our programme. Possibly the enthusiastic reception…