The Royal New Zealand Navy Bandwill perform as part of theNational Concert Band Festival,
andsome of itsmembers will be among the adjudicators. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
The Royal New Zealand Navy Bandwill perform as part of theNational Concert Band Festival,
andsome of itsmembers will be among the adjudicators. PHOTO/SUPPLIED
THERE will be toe tapping this weekend when 25 bands from as far south as Invercargill and as far north as Orewa converge on the city for the National Concert Band Festival.
The event is hosted by the Rotorua Symphonic Band, which is aiming to win gold-one better than last year's silver-at the competition.
The band is hoping for some local support this weekend, "unlike inAuckland last year when nobody knew us," said band committee chairman David Elliot.
It is holding a public concert in the Concert Chamber at 5pm on Saturday, and Mr Elliot said that during the festival the various bands would be playing songs most people would know.
"The selection of music will be very recognisable, definitely not high-brow and it will be played by some of the finest concert bands in the country."
The Rotorua Symphonic Band would play a varied selection for the competition including songs from the Disney film Frozen and Greatest War Themes.
Unlike a brass band, a concert band included woodwind instruments as well as brass and percussion, he said. So, saxophones, clarinets, oboes,flutes and bassoons join trumpets, trombones, euphoniums and tubas.
More than 900 musicians would be performing with their bands in the Civic Theatre.
