Events in Tameside for 28/03/2010

Tameside Council will once again be showcasing the best of brass, at this year’s Tameside Open Brass Band Championships.

The championships mark the start of 2010's contests and Tameside Council’s continued pledge to the development of brass band music, with another two events scheduled for later in the year.

The championships are set to attract approximately 30 bands from around the country including local bands; Denton, Ashton-under-Lyne, Mossley, Stalybridge and St. John’s Mossley. Each band will compete in one of four sections for total prize money of £4,600 and will play their own choice piece.

The first band, competing in the fourth section, will commence play at 9.30am with music continuing throughout the day until early evening.

This year’s two adjudicators have been announced as Thomas Wyss and Derek Broadbent.

Tameside will be staging two further contests later in the year; the British Open Solo & Quartet Championships on Sunday November 7 and the Tameside Youth Brass Festival on Sunday November 28, both of which will be held at Dukinfield Town Hall.

For further details please contact Tameside Arts, Events & Tourism Team on 0161 342 4144.

A seven mile route following part of the Leesfield parish boundary, over Brown Edge, to Park Bridge for lunch and back over Hartshead Pike.

A new display of Harry Rutherford’s television sketches have gone on display at the Rutherford Gallery in Hyde.

Harry Rutherford began his flourishing television career with the BBC in 1936 as the corporation launched its high fidelity service.

His quick eye for details and ability to rapidly capture a scene succinctly brought him to the attention of the BBC producer Cecil Madden who offered Rutherford his first job sketching the live acts on Madden’s variety show ‘Cabaret Cartoons’.

The display brings together Rutherford’s sketches from ‘Cabaret Cartoons’. Also included are his illustrations of Samuel Laycock’s Lancashire poem ‘Bowton’s Yard’ performed by Violet Carson, who is perhaps better known as Ena Sharples, as well as sketches from his own programme ‘Sketchbook’, broadcast in the 1950s.

These sketches reveal not only Rutherford’s eye for detail but also his sense of comic timing clearly illustrated in his own commentary displayed alongside the sketches.

Rutherford easily fell into conversations with people he met whilst sketching different towns across the UK and the exhibited drawings reflect not only his artistic brilliance but also his sociable character.

Harry Rutherford’s television sketches are on display at the Rutherford Gallery in Hyde until April 2010.

Gallery Open: Tues, Thurs, Fri: 10am-12.30pm, 1-5pm, Wed: 1-7pm, Sat: 9am-12.30pm, 1-4pm, Closed Sunday and Monday.

Tameside Council are pleased to announce details of their 2010 Annual Music Festival featuring yet another superb range of concerts. The series, aimed at opening up world-class music to a whole new local audience, will give Tameside citizens a taste of musical excellence, all at very affordable prices – demonstrating that top quality music doesn’t have to be elitist.

We are delighted to welcome back ‘Shirley & Friends’ who will once again be performing in a lighter vein at Christ Church, Denton on Saturday 27th March. Next, making their debut performance at Hyde Town Hall on Saturday 24th April, are the world renowned Brighouse & Rastrick Band who are universally regarded as one of the premier brass bands on both the contest and concert platforms.

World famous Black Dyke Band make a welcome return to Dukinfield Town Hall on Sunday 9th May with their virtuoso performance of some great brass band classics and to conclude the festival, the incomparable Hallé Choir will perform at The Albion Church in Ashton-under-Lyne on Sunday 16th May.

Tickets are also available at the Tourist Information Centre, Council Offices, Ashton-under-Lyne, either in person or by telephoning 0161 343 4343.