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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

There were no fireworks, but our centenary year definitely ended with a bang, not a whimper. The warm-up (literally) consisted of community carols in the idyllic surroundings of Thorndon Park. 36 degree heat meant that the parade had to be cancelled, but that didn’t stop…

Our third community concert for 2019 was a tribute to the men and women who sacrificed so much to safeguard our freedom and way of life. On a perfect early summer day, surrounded by friends, we reflected on how fortunate we are to be living…

At 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns on the Western Front fell silent after more than four years of continuous warfare. The allied armies had driven the German invaders back, having inflicted heavy defeats upon them over the preceding four months. In November…

For the last 7 years, the Campbelltown City Council have held their Moonlight Markets at Thorndon Park. The markets are held on the first Friday of November, December, January and February and are regarded as one of the significant markets in SA with over 10,000…