June 12, 2021
FREE Community Concert – Screen Sounds
As Philip Glass, an avant-garde classical composer who has also written music for cinema, pointed out, film today is what opera was formerly – the popular art form of our time. Back in the eighteenth century you wouldn’t have heard many people strolling round London…
May 25, 2021
Mitcham Band Festival 2021
The pandemic grinds on and event organisers must always consider that a sudden lock down could throw all their carefully laid plans into disarray. The folks at Mitcham are cautious optimists, however, and, fingers crossed, decided to go ahead this year with a mini-festival over…
March 31, 2021
Fringe 2021 – Best of British
“And the best of British luck!” was probably what most of us were thinking when our eternally optimistic MD Peter Smith produced his programme for the 2021 Fringe. Planning a concert in the middle of a global pandemic with all the problems of social distancing,…
February 5, 2021
Welcome to 2021 & Australia Day
Welcome to 2021, a year we all hope will be a considerable improvement on its predecessor. We are incurable optimists in Campbelltown band and plans for an action-filled year are well in hand. Our first outing for the year was the Campbelltown Citizenship ceremony. Covid…
October 31, 2020
Major Concert 2020 – War of the Celts
Picture, if you will, a desolate Scottish moor (or even a blasted heath if you’re feeling Shakespearean) and the distant sound of a lone piper. An inspired beginning to a War of the Celts concert, you would agree? Sorry. It turned out to be a…
September 9, 2020
Free Community Concert #2 2020 – Back to the Future
In the spirit of Arnie, the Terminator, or General MacArthur, we vowed to return, but our inexperience in timing the duration of a global pandemic made it difficult to predict when that would be. Weeks crawled by and despite frequent prods from MD Peter and…
March 15, 2020
Fringe 2020 – Flying High
What a star studded performance our 2020 Fringe concert turned out to be. Not only did it feature one of Australia’s (via New Zealand) best cornet players, Kevin Joughin, but Hugh Jackman (channelled by M.D. Peter Smith) led us to the revolutionary barricades of the…
February 20, 2020
Hymns of Praise – Fundraising for the Athelstone CFS
Following our usual attendance at the Australia Day Campbelltown Council ceremonies, the first concert for 2020 was Hymns of Praise in All Souls’ Anglican Church, billed as “an afternoon of hymns, sacred music and some popular tunes you never thought you would hear played by…
December 31, 2019
Christmas Concert – The Spirit of Christmas
The final free community concert of the year was a huge success. The council provided an enormous chocolate cake complete with the band emblem, so perfectly reproduced that it seemed a shame to cut into it. We played mainly Christmas music with Nat King Cole…
