For our Audience

For our Audience

Our plans for 2008

Remembering our founder -
Robin O'Connell

Our recent tour - Cruising the Fjords of Norway

Page updated: 25 March 2008

We begin our 2008 season in earnest with our Easter Concert at the Mick Jagger Centre on Sunday 18th May. "Around the World in 80 Minutes", will visit a host of musical destinations that demonstrate the versatility of the band and variety of music we all enjoy playing.

In August, the band heads to sea again with a cruise around the Mediterranean, entertaining over a thousand passengers and crew aboard the Fred. Olsen Black Watch. Towards the end of the year, we look forward to welcoming the Kreato Wind Band from Halle, Brussels. Kreato are a band similar in size and format to the Eynsford Concert Band and for many years have been regarded as one of the leading amateur wind bands in Belgium. Their visit to the UK will culminate in us performing a joint Charity concert on 1st November in the magnificent surroundings of St. Nicholas Church, Sevenoaks.

Fund Raising by the Eynsford Concert Band

Each year, the band is proud to select a charity for which we raise money through both concerts and fund-raising social events.

For 2007, we are very excited to announce that we raised over £3,000 for Macmillan Cancer Support. This was achieved through the generosity of our Members, Friends and Audiences and we are extremely grateful to all of you who contributed.

For 2008, the band is supporting The Alzheimer's Society. With over £230 already raised, we are well on our way to 'raising the bar' yet again.

About The Alzheimer's Society - by Angela Jackson, 3rd Clarinet

I do voluntary work for The Alzheimer's Society and in April 2005 (just shortly after joining the band) I lost my Dad to this awful disease. I am so pleased that we are supporting this charity.

We have already organized a quiz night and raised over £230, and Steve and Den have very kindly agreed to host another garden party later this summer. In addition to this, all money raised from our November Concert with the Kreato Wind Band will be donated to this worthy cause.

I am sure we will have other fund raising events through the year, so check the website regularly for updates.

We raised over £3,000 last year for Macmillan Cancer and I know that The Alzheimer's Bexley Branch are 'over the moon' that we have chosen them - so let's get fund raising!!!

Angela

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