Events in 2026 – Come Follow the Band!
Sunday 15th March – Barnes Music Festival 3pm
We’re delighted to be invited back to the Festival, a highlight of our year. This year’s theme is “Musical Roots”. Let’s start at the very beginning, with Do-Re-Mi from the Sound of Music to the contemporary calmness of One Life Beautiful. We also showcase our talented musicians with Bassoonist Loveday Shewell performing Philip Sparke’s melodic Wind in the Reeds and Jonathan Williams singing London Bridge is Falling Down as part of Martin Ellerby’s celebration of the City of London. We end with The Village in the City, commissioned to celebrate the band’s 50th Anniversary. Full Programme: Do-Re-Mi – Rodgers and Hammerstein (arr Iwai), The Cries of London – Martin Ellerby, Wind in the Reeds – Philip Sparke, John Williams Swings – arr Jay Bocook, One Life Beautiful – Julie Giroux, Eine Kleine Yiddishe Ragmusik – Adam Gorb, The Village in the City – Rob Wiffin.
Sun 31st May – Barnes Green – FiSH Open Gardens – (PM time TBC)
Members of the Band and friends offer jolly music groups to support Barnes charity FiSH as part of the Open Gardens initiative.
Sat 20th June – Trumpeters’ House – Richmond – 2pm
We’ll be back for such a treasured date in our diary! Thanks so much to the Museum of Richmond for inviting us to play, again, at Trumpeters’ House, and to the family who offer this beautiful venue to local charities. Can’t wait for another afternoon of Bandstand favourites!
(Weds 9th Sept – FiSH Volunteers – Barnes Green – evening time tbc)
(Again, we look forward to joining our FiSH friends to help say thank-you to their volunteers – this is a private event but if you’re passing on the Green by the pond, and the weather is ok, we’ll be playing outside!)
Barnes Concert Band 