Diary full of events for world’s No1

THE Cory Band are continuing 2017 as they ended 2016 and that is with a diary crammed full of engagements.

January 7, 8 and 9 saw them recording yet another CD with World of Brass which will probably be released at the time of the Welsh Regional qualifying round of the National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain, which is being held at the Brangwyn Hall, Swansea, on Saturday and Sunday March 18 and 19.

They will be giving masterclasses and a concert at Aberystwyth on January 21, and the following Sunday, January 29, will find them up in Manchester giving a Festival performance at the Royal Northern College of Music.

On Sunday, February 5, Cory will be giving a concert at Bradford Upon Avon, near Bath, and on the following Sunday, February 12, they are presenting a concert in the Forest Of Dean.

Unibr ass have a brass band competition which is held at the Harrogate International Centre and there are 22 bands taking part.

Unibrass is the University Brass Band Championship of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

This contest takes place on February 18 and Cory have been asked to give a concert in the main auditorium of the International Centre after the competition and they advertise Cory as “the number one ranked brass band... and the first band ever to complete the ‘Grand Slam’ being crowned British Open Champions, National Champions, European Champions and Brass in Concert Champions.

“Under their inspirational MD Phillip Harper they will be performing a full Gala Concert that promises to be a spectacular show.”