An exciting opportunity

Christmas and Spring Concerts

Get your December off to a festive start with Beenham Wind Orchestra’s Christmas concert to be held at Thatcham Baptist Church, Wheelers Green Way Thatcham RG19 4YF on Saturday 4 December at 7pm.

The programme will include selections of favourite carols, White Christmas, Sleigh Ride and other popular Christmas music. There will also be a chance for you to join us in singing some carols.

Tickets: Adult £10, Under-18 £5. Available from Band Members or by emailing BWOcontact@gmail.com

Hold the date!

Saturday 12 February 2022, 7.30pm, St. Mary's Thatcham.

Beenham Wind Orchestra’s first concert of 2022 will be a special occasion – it will be Robert Roscoe’s last concert as our conductor. Under Robert’s masterful conductorship, the orchestra has gone from strength to strength and we hope to make this a worthy finale. In this, his final concert, we will be playing a varied programme including many of his favourite pieces. More details will be available in the new year, so keep checking.

Tickets: Adult £10, Under-18 £5. Available from Band Members or by emailing BWOcontact@gmail.com.

Interested in joining us?

Do you play a wind instrument or want to start back again after not playing for years? We are keen to recruit extra players, particularly French Horn, Bassoon or Flute. We play a wide variety of music, and ask that you are about a grade 6 standard. No auditions - we meet on Friday evenings at 7.30pm. If you are interested please contact us at BWOContact@gmail.com

Autumn Rehearsal Schedule

AUTUMN TERM 2021

Rehearsals

15, 22 October

5, 12, 19, 26 November

3, 10, 17 December

Friday 15 October - Open rehearsal at Thatcham Baptist Church for the Thatcham Festival of Arts

26 November and 3 December - Rehearsal at Thatcham Baptist Church

 

Concerts

Saturday 4 December - Christmas Concert at Thatcham Baptist Church

SPRING TERM 2022

Rehearsals

7, 14, 21, 28 January

4, 11 18 February

4, 11, 18, 25 March

1 April

11 February - Rehearsal at St. Mary's Church, Thatcham

Concerts

Saturday 12 February - Spring Concert at St. Mary's Church, Thatcham

SUMMER TERM 2022

Rehearsals

29 April

6, 13, 20, 27 May

10, 17, 24 June

1, 8, 15, 22 July

Concerts

24 June - Band on the Rec.

Celebrating 15 years as our conductor

 Robert Roscoe being presented with a photo book celebrating 15 years as our conductor.

Thank you Robert for your enthusiasm, patience and mostly, thank you for the music.

Band on the Rec

A perfect evening for ‘Band on the Rec’ at Beenham. What a super atmosphere and how wonderful to see so many people enjoying themselves. It has been such a long time since we last performed in public but we returned in style! A massive thank you to everyone who worked so hard to enable us to play and to ensure this was a Covid safe event.

Face to face rehearsals

 Brilliant news.

 

Face to face rehearsals to return! 

Our first face to face rehearsal will be on Friday 21^st May at Beenham school.  Detailed information will be arriving in your inboxes soon.  Please note that the zoom rehearsal on 7^th May and the social on 14^th May have been cancelled, so there is plenty of time to build up stamina and prepare for an evening of LIVE music led by Victoria Benjamin 😊