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Gillingham Imperial Silver Band

Welcome to the Gillingham Imperial Silver Band website.  We are a friendly brass band located in the south west of England, and we are currently graded nationally in the 3rd section.  We have recently won the 3rd Section in the Wessex contest at Weymouth for a year in a row.

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MD's thoughts on 2013 Regional performance

Our Musical Director Paul Williams shares his thoughts on the Band's performance at this years regional contest.

"The near arrival of Spring means one thing to brass bands; the annual regional contest. Up and down the country bands rehearse set test pieces in preparation for these “areas”. Our Area, the West of England is held at Torquay in the Riveria Centre so a trip to the seaside is in order every March.
 
Our set piece was 'Hollywood' composed by the late Goff Richards. As it name implies, the music is all about the movies, from the old but gold classics like Charlie Chaplin’s  slapstick humour, to the whirling romantic weepies featuring Fred Astair and Ginger Rogers, to classic Westerns all the way up to Harrison Ford action movies.  It’s a great piece, good to listen to, enjoyable to rehearse but with lots of hard detail in every part to get right.
 

In February we welcomed composer and conductor Tom Davoren into the bandroom for a mammoth 7 hour rehearsal session where we really got to work on Goff Richard’s music. Read more here

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