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More Prizes!

The band entered the annual scaba Autumn Contest on Sunday 13th September at The Hawth Theatre in Crawley and came away with a number of prizes! The Adjudicator was Nick Garman and the competition required the playing of a march, hymn tune and ‘own choice’ test piece.

The Cobham Band performed the following:

Test Piece : Rule Britannia
Hymn tune : Fewster
March : Black Dyke

Three prizes were awarded:

Best Instrumentalist went to James Simpson (trombone)
Best Bass Section
Overall we came 2nd in the section

£ 1000 for charity

Each year the band nominates one or more charities that it will support through fundraising. In 2014, two charities were chosen – Surrey Air Ambulance and Princess Alice Hospice. £500 was donated to each following the Christmas period.

Christmas 2014

The band finished 2014 with Carol playing at Cobham High Street, Brooklands and Cobham Service Station where money was collected for Charity.

A successful Concert was held at Cobham Village Hall on 13 December where all of the music had a Christmas theme and included Stop The Cavalry, Troika and In the Bleak Mid Winter. Solos were played by Mat Baker on cornet playing Rocking Carol and Beryl McMillan on Flugel playing Lullaby (Away in a manger). The trombone section were featured in White Christmas and the Eupohoniumns were featured in Babe in a Manger. The audience were invited to sing when traditional Carols were played.