The event will be held at the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 38 with the bar open at 5:30 prior to the 6 p.m. meal of roast beef served with oven roasted potatoes, and other vegetables.
A series of short concerts performed by various groups made up of players from within the 32-member Mersey Band will begin following the dessert course of pie or cake. There will be door prizes and 50 / 50 tickets will be sold.
Already confirmed for mini-concerts that evening is the Privateers Brass, a group formed in 2005 from among the community band’s brass instrument players. This ensemble plays an eclectic repertoire that can cover the musical spectrum from The Beatles to Beethoven. In its three-year history, it has frequently played for weddings, concerts, garden parties and church services. In preparation for the fall fund-raising event, this group is rehearsing numbers such as the popular march Colonel Bogey, a tango and the Herb Alpert tune Tijuana Taxi.
An ensemble made up of the band’s woodwind players is also officially on the program. Known as the Mersey Winds, the woodwind ensemble is practicing some jazz, ragtime, a polka and some spiritual music for the event. A trio of school students, who have trained and qualified to join the band, will also perform. Other groups from within the band are also rehearsing. Mersey Band Director, Scott MacDonald, Bachelor of Music, is working with the groups to finalize and rehearse the programme. He will also be forming other units from within the band to widen the scope of the musical entertainment.
MacDonald is looking forward to the evening and hopes it will become an annual event for the Mersey Band, which has been practicing and performing in Liverpool for well over 60 years. The band is very appreciative of the contribution the Legion Branch made towards this event,” said Jim Parks, band chairman.
Tickets for the event are $12 and $6 for children under 12 years of age. Tickets are available at the Woodpile Café and at the fabrics and crafts shop Seams Sew Simple. They may also be purchased from members of the band and by calling Don Smith at 354-3325.
Roast beef to ragtime jazz
Roast beef to ragtime jazz
Members of Liverpool’s Mersey Band will be trading their peaked marching caps for chefs’ hats to host a roast beef dinner and evening of music on Nov. 8.
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