The Manx National Youth Band are pleased to announce that reigning “Double Champions”, Fodens Band, will be returning to the Isle of Man for a special anniversary concert at the Villa Marina on Saturday 13th July. This date marks 100 years to the day since the imposing venue on Douglas Promenade first opened its doors to the public.
The world famous Fodens Band was formed in 1900, in a small village named Elworth in Sandbach, Cheshire where it was adopted by Edwin Foden, a local industrialist at the Foden’s Motorworks.
From these humble beginnings few would have thought that this band would go on to win ten British Open titles, thirteen National Championships of Great Britain and an unparalleled double hat-trick there in 1932, ’33 and ’34 and in 1936, ’37 and ’38.
The band currently holds the record for the number of area contest wins with an unprecedented 18 North West area titles.
Around the world Foden’s Band is a trademark that musicians associate with inestimable class and musicianship. This fact is reflected in the wide variety of countries that the band has toured; Italy, Switzerland, America, Ireland, France, Norway, Finland and Israel to name but a few.
The association which Foden’s has with the most respected and renowned conductors, Bramwell Tovey, Allan Withington, Howard Snell and Michael Fowles has developed the band’s ever increasing repertoire and also their standards to unprecedented levels as well as allowing them to provide audiences with musically aesthetic performances as well as stepping outside the boundaries of the usual brass band concert repertoire.
In 2012 Foden’s set up a youth band to nurture the very best youth musicians in the area to become the future of the brass industry and they are pleased to be supporting the Manx Youth Band players with this fundraising concert.
Most recently the band have cemented themselves as one of the leading Brass Bands in the world winning a rare and exceptional “Double”, being crowned 2012 British Open champions and the 2012 National Champions of Great Britain. In doing so the band defeated the very best bands in Britain at the world’s two most prestigious competitions.
Fodens Band are no strangers to the Isle of Man, having last played at the Villa Marina in 2005 and previously won the prestigious “Granada Band Of The Year” title when it was held for the final time in 1987, also at the Villa Marina.
The Manx Youth Band are extremely grateful to the Villa Marina, IOM Steam Packet Company and Sefton Group for their support in making the staging of this concert possible.
Concert details:
Date Saturday 13th July 2013
Commences 19:45
Tickets ?17.50 each (concessions available)
Available from Villa Marina box office on (01624) 600555 or online at http://www.villagaiety.com/eventinfo.aspx?eventID=1957
