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Australia Day each year is always an excellent day for us to support the local community in Campbelltown.  This year - with 45 degree days forecast and lots of councils cancelling - our ceremony was held in the Campbelltown Function Centre in a blissful air…

For the last few years, we've been been leading the Campbelltown Christmas Pageant down Stradbroke road towards Thordon Park. This year was no exception as we waited for the 5pm-ish bus to drive past before the roads were blocked off and the march kicked off.…

On a wet and cold Friday afternoon in December, the Campbelltown Moonlight markets were held. This is always a huge market, held on the first Friday of November, December, February and March each year with around 10,000 people attending each night! Unfortunately, December's market suffered…

“Lest we Forget” As is our tradition, we played for the Remembrance Day ceremony held by the Payneham RSL sub-branch.  We are always honoured to be involved in this ceremony at the lovely Memorial Gardens & Cross of Sacrifice in Felixstow. Normally most of our…

On Sunday the 5th November 2017 we were proud to host a concert with our special guests, the Arndale Salvation Army's 'Just Brass' youth band.  The theme of the concert was 'Celebration' where we celebrated all things musical! Our guests for the afternoon were part…

On Sunday afternoon, The Campbelltown City Band and Payneham Concert Band - conducted by Bob Hower - combined together presenting a concert to an auditorium of loyal followers of each band. Both bands combined on stage to open the concert, playing the ever popular march,…

At 8am Sunday morning the 20th August 2017, Campbelltown City Band members congregated at Immanuel College for the annual state band championships.  After a few coffees to settle the nerves, we arrived at the warm up room to sign on - fortunately the room was…

The annual Strathalbyn Bands Festival was upon us once again.  The commitment and enthusiasm - albeit dampened by the rain that was bucketing down on us - from all members of the band made this another concert well worth playing in and listening to! A…

Our annual concert this year was based around music from the silver screen! We knew we were off to a good start as players started arriving to the Campbelltown Function Centre dressed as pirates, prisoners, James Bond(s), scarecrows and even a guest appearance from the…

Well, it's all done and dusted!  Mitcham City Band's inaugural Band Festival for 2017 was an excellent and most enjoyable success.  The streets surrounding the Vogue Theatre at Kingswood were packed with cars and an exciting atmosphere was surrounding the now local-church-owned building. Arriving at…