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Saturday 25 September at 7:00pm Tickets £10 Balcony £8 Downstairs (£6 concession - downstairs) Sunday 26 September at 10:30am & 4:30pm

Car parking available in multi-storey car park opposite Cheques payable to The Salvation Army. SAE to Michael Whybrow, The Citadel, 34 St Giles Street, Norwich NR2 1LL Telephone: 01603 620747 Norwich Citadel Band 128th Anniversary Weekend

We are pleased to announce that the famous International Staff Band of The Salvation Army under the direction of Dr Stephen Cobb will be in Norwich for the weekend of 25/26 September. They will be giving a concert on the Saturday evening at the Citadel at 7:00pm. Tickets are priced at £10 for the gallery with just £8 for downstairs. If you qualify for a concession, you can purchase a £8 ticket for £6. Please note though, concessions are only available for the downstairs. All seat are unnumbered. Due to a number of people telephoning to reserve tickets and then not turning up on the night, we will not be offering this facility, sorry. We are anticipating a full house for the evening and therefore you are advised to purchase your tickets well in advance. Please send a stamped addressed envelope and stating your request together with a cheque made payable to 'The Salvation Army' to: M.R.Whybrow, 8 Taverham Road, Drayton, Norwich NR8 6RX On the Sunday there is a morning service at 10:30am featuring the ISB and an afternoon concert style meeting at 4:30pm. Both of these gatherings are free-of-charge and you are most welcome to come and hear this fine band. The occasion we are celebrating is the Norwich Citadel Band's 128th Anniversary Weekend. We look forward to seeing you in Norwich.

Greetings from a busy bandroom where plenty of practice can be heard as well as fund raising for the Band's tour to the USA and Canada in October. In fact rehearsals are to continue throughout the summer so that we are geared up to give of our best for the imaginative programmes that Richard has devised for the tour.

The recording session in early May went very well and our new CD, to be entitled 'BLESSING & HONOUR' should be available in September. It will be available from the Band - Graeme Hall, Derek Mapes, Stuart Frost or Michael Whybrow, or alternatively from SP&S for £13.95.

The titles we recorded are: Blessing & Honour (Paul Sharman), Servants of God (Stephen Ponsford), Salvation's Song (Bill Gordon), You love me (Paul Sharman) - horn solo by David Winch, Confrontations (Dudley Bright), The Call of the Righteous (Les Condon), Norwich Anthem (arr Richard Woodrow), Fanfare for the Common Man (Aaron Copeland), When I survey (Olaf Ritman), - trombones, Metropolis (Ken Ketteringham), Heart Beat (Len Ballantine), Stars of the Morning (Ken Downie), Covenant Worship (Len Ballantine), Shepherd's Song (Cantaloupe arr Goff Richards) and Swing Hosana (Ty Watson).

There is still editing work to be done on the recording and BM Richard Woodrow and Dep BM Andrew Gibson will be visiting the World of Sound premises in Wellingborough early next month to finalise all of this.

NCB recently headed the carnival procession in Diss and received a generous donation towards tour funds in doing so.

A concert at Wymondham Abbey was given by NCB and the Tallis Chamber Choir last month. The concert was in aid of 'Help for Heroes- and was attended by several dignitaries including General Sir David Dannatt, former head of the British Army. A capacity crowd enjoyed a varied concert of music which included 'Fanfare for the Common Man' and Hubert Parry's 'Jerusalem' led by the band and choir with Richard conducting the gathered assembly. This evening was the first outing for NCB's new publicity display. The next occasion will be on Monday 28th June for the concert at the Citadel 'Music from Two Cities' featuring the men scholars from King's College Choir 'Collegium Regalle'.

If you would like to have the latest photograph of the Band, click on this link, wait for the image to load, and then either select "Save image as..." or "Save photo as..." depending on your web browser, and you will be able to download a high resolution photograph that you may print for yourself. There are more pictures to be utilised within the Tour Brochure which won't be available until after the tour, but some of these have been incorportated into the new publicity display.

Congratulations to Major Richard Welch, our Band Executive Officer and Major Sandra Welch one of our percussionists on their promotion to the rank of Major — well deserved I m sure!

Fund raising continues to go well with more sums raised both big and small. Our total of money received and promised so far is £10600. This includes the costs of supplying paper and printing of our tour brochure kindly offered by Page Brothers Ltd.

Michael Grimshaw has made a decision to become a senior soldier and will be enrolled on Sunday 4 July. Michael has been a very active attender at rehearsals and following his enrollment, we look forward to him taking his place in NCB. This makes a band of 42 travelling to the US and Canada.

God bless you and regards from all at NCB!
Michael Whybrow—Band Secretary