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Follow this link to listen to a lovely portrait of Cecil Adams from Graham F Smith‘s Listening Post interview
https://www.facebook.com/roystontownband/videos/10156227306929124/

As part of our Brass Roots project we will be doing a monthly spotlight on an interesting ‘thing’ that we need your help with…

Sorry this one is a bit late – December was quite busy! A photo this time of Fred Drake and Cecil Adams. This was originally scanned in from a collection from Lisa King.

It looks like a presentation at the Royal British Legion presumably on Remembrance Sunday, but we don’t have a record of what year it was taken or what the presentation was for. Can you help?

Do you have any memories of Fred or Cecil that you’d like to share?

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Brass Roots November Spotlight

As part of our Brass Roots project we will be doing a monthly spotlight on an interesting ‘thing’ that we need your help with…

This month i’m going with something a bit more recent – something that came up a lot when we asked people for their memorable band moments at our AGM.

A local arts group needed a band to support their project On Landguard Point, which was bidding for Arts Council funding as part of the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

Somehow we ended up at the end of Clacton Pier, in the rain, under red umbrellas, playing music by Michael Neiman on film. That’s banding for you!

On Landguard Point Teaser from Pacitti Company on Vimeo.

Were you there? Did you go to the film showing?

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As part of our Brass Roots project we will be doing a monthly spotlight on an interesting ‘thing’ that we need your help with…

As some of the band have just returned from a trip to our twin town in Grossalmerode I thought this would suit! This document seems to be a programme for the first twinning trip between Royston and Grossalmerode – the band (of course!) were there to play.

Were you there? Do you remember the event? What are your favourite memories of twinning trips to Grossalmerode? Have you got any photos to share?

Thanks to Royston Museum for making this interesting artefact available to us 🙂

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Fantastic news!! Here comes Brass Roots…

We’ve been awarded £10,000 from @heritagelotteryfund for our band history project ‘Brass Roots‘ thanks to money raised by National Lottery players!

Over the next year there will be many different opportunities to delve into record books, create a new oral history, launch a youth mini-project, reconnect with old friends and much more…

Get in touch with us if you would like to be involved.