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05
Jul 2021
Last Updated: 05/07/2021
And the band played on...
Yesterday's thunderstorm could not have been timed worse for members of Tewit Youth Band, who got absolutely saturated during their first public performance for 18 months in Harrogate's Valley Gardens. Yet they completed their programme.
Tewit Youth Band's first public performance for 18 months yesterday coincided with a huge thunderstorm in Harrogate's Valley Gardens.
Because band members had to be spaced two metres apart die to covid, over half were outside the bandstand on the grass and fully exposed to the downpour.
Despite this, the band played on and completed the entire programme.
The local was joined by the world famous brass band Black Dyke Band, which filled in for some Tewit members who were isolating due to covid.
They were halfway through the programme when the heavens opened.
Colin Gibbs president of Tewit Youth Band, said:
"The band played on through it all and fully completed their program, which was exceedingly appreciated by the audience who bravely stayed on under cover of umbrellas and waterproofs.
"Their musical director, Martin Hall, and those band members out in the open were completely saturated but were delighted to have been able to play in a live concert for the first time in 18 months due to lockdown. A credit to the youth of today."
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After the youth band's performance, Black Dyke Band took to the bandstand alone and due to its smaller size all of the musicians could fit under the shelter.
The concert was funded by Arts Council England‘s Culture Recovery Fund, which awarded Black Dyke Band a grant to play with a budding group of its choice.
The Tewit Band practises at the old Methodist Chapel in Huby. It has about 100 members and four groups ranging in ages.
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