Victorian 'Childs Play' for Dyke

Shirebrook Town Council has raised £75,000, most of which will be dedicated to brass band projects including a film project that Black Dyke Band and its Conductor, Nicholas Childs, will perform the live soundtrack at the premiere next year.

The 14-minute film, narrated by Frank Renton, produced by former Desford player and Creative Director of Absolute Video, Martyn Harris and scored by Paul Lovatt-Cooper is entitled ‘Childs Play’ and will focus on children's play from Victorian times to present day exploring play of the future. Paul Lovatt-Cooper will spend time at Shirebrook Academy School to discover what nursery rhymes and playground songs to incorporate into the film score, as well as spend time with the film before composing the soundtrack. Local primary schools will sing the songs for the film soundtrack working with Derby City and County Music Partnership (Derbyshire Music Hub) choral team. Project Music Adviser, Nicholas Childs, will rehearse Shirebrook Band and Shirebrook Academy School for the film music live premiere and Dyke will premiére the entire score in November 2016 at Shirebrook Leisure Centre, to the film that will feature extract performances from Shirebrook Miners Welfare Unison Brass Band, Shirebrook Academy School’s Brass and Percussion and other local primary schools.

The £75,000 raised from different sources will also help to fund: Shirebrook Town Festival 2015 "Shirebrook Brass in the Bandstand Entertainment Contest" which is now fully subscribed with ten band entries(12 July) and curtain-raiser concert by Grimethorpe Colliery (11 July);

The draw for Shirebrook Brass in the Bandstand is:

1 Dinnington Colliery Band
2 Shirebrook Miners Welfare Band
3 Unite the Union (City of Sheffield Band
4 Market Rasen Res Dev Band
5 South Yorkshire Police Band
6 Ireland Colliery Band
7 Oughtibridge Band
8 Enderby Band
9 Hatfield Band
10 Rolls Royce Derby Band.

The contest is based at Shirebrook Town Park on the bandstand adjacent to ShirebrookLeisure Centre and will run from 12 noon until 7pm approximately. A bar and catering is available on site. The adjudicator is Glyn Williams.

Black Dyke’s workshops at Shirebrook Academy School followed by a Remembrance weekend concert (7 November); Foden’s Band’s curtain-raiser concert to Shirebrook Town Festival and the Festival itself (July 2016); a new Shirebrook Festival and park concerts commission by Salvationist composer, Steven Ponsford; and Shirebrook’s fortnightly Brass in the Park Sunday concerts in 2015/16 (mid-June to the Sunday August Bank Holiday Brass Explosion finale). All indoor concerts take place in Shirebrook Leisure Centre and out-door concerts on Shirebrook Town Park.

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