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Engagements

Please find below a list of the Parc & Dare Band's engagements for the year ahead, along with retrospectives on engagements undertaken in previous years.

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ITINERARY 2008    
     
FEB 2   Yeovil Entertainment Contest
    with Richard Evans
    Octagon Theatre, Yeovil, Somerset
    Box Office: 01935 422884
FEB 9   Festival of Brass
    With Cardiff (Canton) SA Band
    Llandaff Cathedral, Llandaff, Cardiff
    Contact: Barry Price 02920 711 603 / 07970 687 171
FEB 16   South Wales Mineworker's Eisteddfod Entertainment Contest
    with Richard Evans
    Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl
    Box Office: 01656 786996
MAR 9   Welsh Regional Championships
    Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
    Test-piece: Festival Music
MAR 21   Good Friday Concert
with Treorchy Male Choir
    Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
MAY 10   Senior Trophy Championship
    With Richard Evans
    Winter Gardens, Blackpool
    Test-piece: An Epic Symphony
MAY 18   Rehearsal: Carbon 12
    With Gerry Cornelius
    Parc & Dare Bandroom 7:00-9:30pm
MAY 23   A Starry Starry Night
    Gala Concert in aid of Bobath Cymru
    Making a difference to children in Wales with cerebral palsy
    St David's Hall, Cardiff
    Box Office: 02920 878 500
MAY 26   Welsh Brass Arts Festival Preview Concert
    Free Performance
    Wales Millennium Centre - Glanfa Foyer
    3:00-4:00pm
MAY 28   Rehearsal: Carbon 12
    Wales Millennium Centre 6:30-9:30
MAY 30   Rehearsal: Carbon 12
    Wales Millennium Centre 6:30-9:30
JUNE 1   Rehearsal: Carbon 12
    Wales Millennium Centre 10:30-4:30
JUNE 4   Dress Rehearsal: Carbon 12
    Wales Millennium Centre
    6:30-9:30pm
JUNE 5   Dress Rehearsal: Carbon 12
    Wales Millennium Centre
    6:30-9:30pm
JUNE 6   Carbon 12 - World Premiere Performance
    With Welsh National Opera Company
    Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
    Wales Millennium Centre - Donald Gordon Theatre
    Box Office: 08700 40 2000
JUNE 8   Dress / Technical Rehearsal: The Planets
    Park & Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    6:30-9:30pm
JUNE 12   Carbon 12
    With Welsh National Opera Company
    Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
    Wales Millennium Centre - Donald Gordon Theatre
    Box Office: 08700 40 2000
JUNE 13   Welsh Brass Arts Festival 2008
    The Planets
    With Catrin Finch, Serendipity female chorus and the symphonic brass of
    the Stadtkapelle Nuertingen & Stadtorchester Ravensburg, Germany
    Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
    For full details see www.brassbands.co.uk/festival.htm
JUNE 14   Welsh Brass Arts Festival 2008
    A Night at the Opera
    With Cor Meibion Morlais, the Vivace Singers and the symphonic brass
    of the Stadtkapelle Nuertingen & Stadtorchester Ravensburg, Germany
    Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
    For full details see www.brassbands.co.uk/festival.htm
JUNE 19   Carbon 12
    With Welsh National Opera Company
    Conductor: Carlo Rizzi
    Birmingham Hippodrome
    Box Office: 0870 730 1234
JUNE 23 to JULY 9   Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo
    Parc & Dare Brass
    Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    www.nstattoo.ca
JUNE 26   Carbon 12 - Free Performance
    With Welsh National Opera Company
    Conductor: Gerry Cornelius
    Rhondda Fach Sports Centre, Tylorstown
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
AUG 3   Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru
    With Richard Evans
    Cardiff, Location TBC
    Live Televised Event
AUG 9   Wales-Japan Club International Festival of Brass
    With Senzoku Gakuen College of Music Band, Japan
    Conductors: Richard Evans and Dr Robert Childs
    Llandaff Cathedral, Llandaff, Cardiff
    Contact: 07765 678 189
     
     
ITINERARY 2007    
     
FEB 10   Yeovil Entertainment Contest
    with Richard Evans
    Octagon Theatre, Yeovil, Somerset
    Box Office: 01935 422884
FEB 17   South Wales Mineworker's Eisteddfod Entertainment Contest
    with Richard Evans
    Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl
    Box Office: 01656 786996
MAR 18   Welsh Regional Championships
    Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
    Test-piece: Isaiah 40
MAR 24 Electric Brass
    with Catrin Finch & Steve Bingham
    Theatr Hafren, Newtown, Powys
    01686 625 007
    www.brassbands.co.uk/electricbrass.htm
MAR 29   Electric Brass
    with Catrin Finch & Steve Bingham
    Wales Millennium Centre - Weston Theatre
    08700 40 2000
    www.brassbands.co.uk/electricbrass.htm
MAR 30   Electric Brass
    with Catrin Finch & Steve Bingham
    Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea
    01792 602 060
    www.brassbands.co.uk/electricbrass.htm
APR 6   Good Friday Concert
with Treorchy Male Choir
    Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
MAY 19   Senior Trophy Championship
    Winter Gardens, Blackpool
    Test-piece: Ballet for Band
MAY 28   Welsh Brass Arts Festival Preview Concert
    Wales Millennium Centre - Glanfa Foyer
    3:00-4:00pm
JUNE 15-20   Welsh Brass Arts Festival 2007
    Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
    For full details see www.brassbands.co.uk/festival.htm
JUNE 15   A Night at the Musicals / A Night at the Sands
    with Peter Karrie
    Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
    www.brassbands.co.uk/festival.htm
JUNE 16   World Dances
    with Joji Hirota and the Japanese Taiko Drummers
    Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
    www.brassbands.co.uk/festival.htm
JUNE 23 to JULY 9   Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo
    Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    www.nstattoo.ca
OCT 4   A Man & His Music
    with Peter Karrie
    Blackwood Miner's Institute, Blackwood, Caerphilly
    Box Office: 01495 227 206
OCT 21   The Cordell Project - Parc & Dare Brass 10 Piece
    with Dawson Smith and The Exiles
    Phoenix Arts, Leicester
    Tel: 0116 255 4854
OCT 27   Parc & Dare Band In Concert
    Theatr Hafren, Newtown, Powys
    Tel: 01686 625 007
NOV 4   Harry & Margaret Mortimer Championships
    with Richard Evans
    Pontins, Prestatyn, North Wales
    Test-piece: Partita
NOV 30   A Man & His Music
    with Peter Karrie
    Congress Theatre, Cwmbran
    Box Office: 01633 868 239
DEC 7 The Glory of Christmas
    with The Richard Williams Singers, Gentlemen Songsters & Treorchy Comprehensive Senior School Choir
  Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
  Box Office: 01443 773 112
DEC 14-17 Deutsche Festliche Konzert Tour
    with Stadtorchester Ravensburg & Stadtkapelle Nuertingen
  Ravensburg & Nuertingen, Germany
    www.stadtorchester-ravensburg.de / www.stadtkapelle-nuertingen.de
DEC 21 The Wonder of Christmas
    with Spotlight Theatre Company a Cor Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Bodringallt
  Park and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
Box Office: 01443 773 112
     
     
ITINERARY 2006    
     
FEB 18   South Wales Mineworker's Eisteddfod Entertainment Contest
    Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl
    Box Office: 01656 786996
MAR 2   Recording Session
    Alexander Cordell Project
    with Dawson Smith (www.dawsonsmith.com)
MAR 19   Welsh Regional Championships
    Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
    Test-piece: Journey to the Centre of the Earth
APR 14   Good Friday Concert
    with Treorchy Male Choir
    Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
MAY 6   South East Wales Brass Band Championships
    Ebbw Vale Leisure Centre
    Test-piece: Own Choice
MAY 13   Senior Trophy Championship
    Winter Gardens, Blackpool
    Test-piece: Essence of Time
MAY 29   Welsh Brass Arts Festival Preview Concert
    Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
    3:00-4:00pm
JUNE 10   Pencampwriaethau Band Pres Radio Cymru
    BBC Radio Cymru Recording
    Ysgol Gyfun Rhydywaun, Aberdare
JUNE 12-17   Welsh Brass Arts Festival
    Parc & Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    For full details see www.brassbands.co.uk/festival.htm
JUNE 16   Welsh Brass Arts Festival: "Electric Brass" Premiere
    with Catrin Finch, Steve Bingham, Gareth Rhys-Davies
    & Only Men Aloud!
    Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
JUNE 17   Welsh Brass Arts Festival: "Big Anthem Fawr"
    with the Stadtorchester Ravensburg & Helen May
    Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
JUNE 24 to JULY 9   Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo
    Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    www.nstattoo.ca
SEPT 9   Electric Brass
    Royal Academy of Music, London
    www.brassbands.co.uk/electricbrass.htm
OCT 7   West Wales Brass Band Championships
    Ammanford
    Test-piece: Own Choice
OCT 14 & 15   Rehearsal with Major Peter Parkes
    Parc & Dare Bandroom / Parc & Dare Theatre
    Les Franc Juges
OCT 21   Last Night of the Proms
    with The Richard Williams Singers, The Gentlemen Songsters
    & Helen May
    Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
OCT 28   National Brass Band Championships of Great Britain
    Royal Albert Hall, London
    Test-piece: Judges of the Secret Court
NOV 18   South East Wales Brass Band Championships
    Parc & Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Test-piece: Chivalry
DEC 15 The Glory of Christmas
    with The Richard Williams Singers, Gentlemen Songsters & Porth County Community School Choir & Brass Band
  Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
  Box Office: 01443 773 112
DEC 16 The Glory of Christmas
    with The Richard Williams Singers, Gentlemen Songsters & Treorchy Comprehensive Senior School Choir
  Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
  Box Office: 01443 773 112
DEC 22 Christmas Carols
    5:00-8:00pm
  Tesco Store, Talbot Green
     
ITINERARY 2005    
     
FEB 10   "Vive la Differénce"
    with L'Orchestre de Cuivres de Franche-Comte & RCT Youth Band
    Park Hall, Cwmparc
FEB 19   South Wales Mineworker's Eisteddfod Entertainment Contest
    Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl
    Box Office: 01656 786996
MAR 12   Welsh Regional Championships
    Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
    Test-piece: Comedy Overture
MAR 25   Good Friday Concert
    with Treorchy Male Choir
    Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
MAY 1   Promotional Concert
    Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff Bay
    3:00-4:00pm
MAY 7   VE Day 60th Anniversary Tribute
    with The Band of Her Majesty's Grenadier Guards
    Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
MAY 21   South East Wales Brass Band Championships
    Ebbw Vale Leisure Centre
    Test-piece: Own Choice
JUNE 9   "Brass Tracks / Wedi 7"
    S4C Recording Session
    Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
JUNE 10   Welsh Brass Arts Festival: "Brass Tracks" Premiere
    A Night at the Movies
    Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
JUNE 11   Welsh Brass Arts Festival: "Last Night of the Proms"
    Richard Williams Singers' 40th Anniversary Celebration
    with The Richard Williams Singers, Gentlemen Songsters & Helen May
    Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
JUNE 16   "Brass Tracks" Tour
    A Night at the Movies
    The Welfare, Ystradgynlais
    Box Office: 01639 843163
JUNE 17   "Brass Tracks" Tour
    A Night at the Movies
    Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea
    Box Office: 01792 295238
JUNE 18   "Brass Tracks" Tour
    A Night at the Movies
    Loughborough Town Hall, Leicestershire
    Box Office: (01509) 231914
JUNE 24 to JULY 9   Nova Scotia International Tattoo
    Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    www.nstattoo.ca
AUG 1   Rehearsal with Ray Farr
    Parc & Dare Bandroom
Pageantry
AUG 25   International Event with Montserrat Choir (St Kitts Caribbean) 
    Coliseum Theatre, Aberdare
    Box Office: 01685 881 188
SEPT 25   National Brass Band Championships National Finals
    Convention Centre, Harrogate
    Test-piece: Pageantry
OCT 1 "East Meets West"
    with the Russian Cossack State Dance Company
  Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
OCT 30   Hand of Friendship Project Concert
    Coal Exchange, Cardiff
    Contact: 01443 776 195
NOV 19 South East Wales Brass Band Championships
  Park + Dare Theatre, Treorchy
  Test-piece: Salome
DEC 2 Christmas Lights Ceremony
    with Alvin Stardust
  Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
DEC 17 The Glory of Christmas
    with The Richard Williams Singers & Gentlemen Songsters
  Parc and Dare Theatre, Treorchy
  Box Office: 01443 773 112
DEC 19 Christmas Carols
    5:00-8:00pm
  Tesco Store, Talbot Green
     
     
ITINERARY 2004    
     
FEB 21   Entertainment Contest
    Grand Pavilion, Porthcawl
    Box Office: 01656 786996
FEB 28   St. David's Day Concert
    with Cor Meibion Cwm Rhondda & Ton Pentre Junior School Choir
    Park & Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
MAR 13   Welsh Regional Championships
    Brangwyn Hall, Swansea
    Test-piece: Coventry Variations
APRIL 9   Good Friday Concert (with Treorchy Male Choir)
    Park + Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
MAY 15   South East Wales Brass Band Championships
    Ebbw Vale Leisure Centre
    Test-piece: Own Choice - Paganini Variations
JUNE 4   Welsh Brass Arts Festival: "Brass & Voices"
    with Denise Leigh & Pendyrus Male Choir
    Park + Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
JUNE 5   Welsh Brass Arts Festival: "D-Day: 60th Anniversary Tribute"
    with Beverley Humphreys, Rhondda Sea Cadets & RCT Youth Brass Band
    Park + Dare Theatre, Treorchy
    Box Office: 01443 773 112
JUNE 24 to JULY 8   Nova Scotia International Tattoo
    Metro Centre, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
    www.nstattoo.ca
SEPT 11 National Brass Band Championship Finals
  Harrogate Convention Centre
  Test-piece: The King of Elfland’s Daughter
OCT 2 West Wales Brass Band Championships
  Ammanford
  Test-piece: Own Choice
NOV 13 South East Wales Brass Band Championships
  Park + Dare Theatre, Treorchy
  Test-piece: Diversions On A Bass Theme
DEC 11 Christmas Concert (with The Richard Williams Singers)
  Park + Dare Theatre, Treorchy
  Box Office: 01443 773 112

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