Former Yorkshire Building Society Band trombonist Alan Carr is to play with Dodworth MW Band at Butlins 2012 - his first brass band performance for 12 years.
Now a freelance trombonist and brass teacher living in Sheffield, his last brass band performance was in December 1999 with YBS. Alan's last contest performance was at the 1999 British Open with DUT Rothwell, playing Philip Wilby's Dove Descending. "I remember playing number 1, some kind of solo stood away from the band and little else" laughed Alan.
This time, it will be a reminder of his childhood, and his former days as a member of the Sun Life (Stanshawe) Band. The test piece for Butlins is Granville Bantock's "Frogs of Aristophanes", which Stanshawe recorded in 1974 and Alan still owns the original LP.
