Sounding Brass and the Swinging Big Band, June 2000

Stevenage Festival 2000

Stevenage Festival 2000 is a Stevenage Arts Guild Enterprise and has been sponsored by Stevenage Borough Council, Stevenage Community Trust, The Comet and Herald Newspapers, ABB Automations Ltd, Alta Image, John Lewis, Glaxo Wellcome and the Millennium Festival.

Cliff Jones, together with Darryl Bonser, founded the Brass ensemble a little over a year ago. They play a demanding selection of pieces, ranging from the classically based to the more popular. Mike O’Neill started with a group of mostly inexperienced young players and from that small beginnings, with Big Band grew. They will play old standards and testing new arrangements.