Saturday 3rd December 2022 - Christmas concert

This year’s Christmas concert was performed in Northallerton’s majestic All Saints Church and was a feast of melodic seasonal fayre enjoyed by all. As is the NSB tradition, uniforms were discarded for Christmas attire including fancy dress costumes which included several elves, a snowman and even a penguin! Our new MD, Chris Britland had only 5 practices with the band before the concert and did a fantastic job to put together a programme of music that ranged from traditional Christmas Carols to “The Snowman”, “Stop the Cavalry”, “Candlelight Carol” (performed by our principal cornet, Emily Stott) and a memorable Glen Miller Christmas arrangement which got the audience cheering. Jonathan Owens showed his mastery of the euphonium by playing a heartfelt cover of Mud's “Lonely This Christmas” and in his role as NSB's bandmaster he conducted a couple of other numbers. Drew Ayres performed the MC duties and radiated confidence and charisma to keep the concert entertaining for all. He even had to perform a comic rendition of “Santa got stuck up the chimney” in between proceedings. Donations from the audience added a sum of some £400 to the church's funds.