This Saturday evening sees Charnwood Training Band performing at Hathern Baptist Church. Doors open at 7:30pm, tickets are £5 for adults (children go free) and we’ll be playing from about 8-9pm. Tickets can either be purchased in advance or on the door. In the concert, Jane will be playing clarinet, I’ll be on tuba and I’m also doing a short ukulele medley in the middle to vary things up.

Often my role in concerts with the various levels of the Charnwood Concert Bands is just to turn up and play. However I’m also both the rep for the training band and a member of the Baptist church so I’ve got some additional organisation duties. Either tomorrow or Saturday during the day I’ll be going over to figure out how to fit 20 or so musicians in the room and still leave room for a decent-sized audience. Tonight, though, I’ve been having fun with getting some slides together to accompany the performance.

Since a lot of the music is from movies, I’ve relied a lot on images of movie posters but I’ve varied it with some scenes and characters too. Not all the pieces fit that bill so I’ve been able to branch out in other directions too. I’ve aimed to keep the formatting reasonably consistent but with a little surprise every now and then. Although the slides are not the main focus, I don’t want them to be too boring compared to the music (which, by the way, was sounding rather good at our final rehearsal on Tuesday).