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Our first concert open to the public this Summer will be the 2024 Charity Concert, in aid of the Firefighters Charity. We’ll be playing at the Saltford Community Hall, on Saturday 15th June, as part of the Saltford Festival.

The following weekend, Saturday 22nd June, we’ll be at the Bristol Harbourside, where we’ll be playing in the M-Shed as part of a special waterside event. It will be a Family Fun weekend – more details to follow. (Hint – Pyronaut)

On Sunday August 18th we’ll be back on the Keynsham bandstand with an afternoon concert.

We round up our Summer season at the Bathampton show, on Saturday 14th September. Sunshine always guaranteed there!

More details of all these events, including ticket details for the June concert, will appear in the ‘Forthcoming Concerts’ page on this website.

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At last we are able to confirm our concert diary for this year. Keep checking in here to see the list of concerts and other events this band will be attending in 2024.

Our Summer season isn’t quite over yet – we’ll be playing at Keynsham Bandstand on Saturday 2nd Sep, and we finish our season at the Bathampton Village Fete on Saturday 9th – we hope to see you at one of these!

Our summer charity concert was held at the Saltford village hall in June – we hope to make this a bigger and better concert next year (plans to be announced)!

This (see below) was one of the more unusual venues we have played at: a section of the band provided background music to the Fire & Rescue Service’s awards ceremony. No we didn’t travel to the moon, it’s Mars in the background (so we were told).

For those unfamiliar with Bristol locations, this is the Concorde at Aerospace Bristol.

We’ve just returned from a weekend ‘band camp’ with our fellow Fire&Rescue band members from Devon & Somerset, West Midlands and Lincolnshire. The event was held in the neutral half-way point of the Fire Service College in the Cotswolds and was much enjoyed by those who attended.

And so to our concert season:

June sees our annual Charity Concert, which this year will be held at Saltford Village Hall, on Saturday 17th June. For details click here

In July we’ll be playing at the Combe Down Primary Summer Fair, in the grounds of Combe Down Rugby Club, on Saturday 15th July

In September we have two concerts:

Keynsham Bandstand on the 2nd of September
and

Bathampton Village Show on the 9th September

For our Jubilee charity concert. It’s on Saturday June 11th, at the Roper Theatre (Hayesfield School, Bath BA2 3LA), starting at 7.30pm. We’ll be playing a selection of Jubilee-linked music titles, plus an assortment of show tunes and pop classics. We’ll be welcoming guest players from our neighbours, in the Devon & Somerset Fire&Rescue Service Concert Band, plus the Devon & Somerset Corps of Drums .

Come along and enjoy the show – advance tickets are now on sale (£10 adult, £5 to age 16) and proceeds will go to the Firefighters Charity. To book by phone, contact the Bath Box Office on 01225 463362 or use the direct link to the booking page for our concert https://bathboxoffice.org.uk/whats-on/jubilee-charity-concert/about

We’ve spent the winter months in practice at the Weston Moravian church in Bath, and despite individual absences as a result of Covid alerts, we’ve managed to keep going and prepare for the 2022 Concert season.

Our first public performance is a Jubilee Charity Concert, to be held at the Roper Theatre in Bath, on Saturday 11th June. More details nearer the time.

We’ll be at the bandstand in the park at Keynsham on Sunday 31st July, from 2pm – and hope to see you there!

We are able to do a couple of public concerts this year, subject of course to Government guidelines:

There’s a chance to hear and meet the band at Cribbs Mall on the morning of Saturday 4th December. We’ll be playing carols and other festive pieces. To find us, follow the music – or go to the first floor, near one of the food corridors at the top of the stairs.

We’ll also be playing at the Christmas service on Sunday 19th December, at St Mary’s church, Yate. The service begins at 6.30pm, and all are welcome.