Who are we?

Rebecca Byrom plays the clarinet and been a member of the Band for three and a half years. She wants to use this moment to say a heartfelt thanks to a very special person for giving her the opportunity to be ‘part of this wonderful band and keep doing what she loves’.

Adrian Hobbs was another “late starter”, taking up the alto saxophone when he was 70. He now wishes he had done it all a lot sooner.

Fran West had only been playing the French Horn for about 6 months when she joined the Band. The danger of joining the Band early in a playing career is, as Fran found, that it will probably be challenging to follow the music let alone play many of the notes and novice players can be put off by this. Thankfully Fran perservered and is now a good player and a key member of the Band.

Gemma Hall plays the flute in the Band and has been a member for about 10 years. Whilst she loves the sound of the flute, she admits to a secret passion of the tuba and bassoon!

Sue Collison was an accomplished clarinet player at school, but hadn’t played for 20 years when she dusted her clarinet off to join the Band in 2006.

Peter Mealing’s introduction to playing the drums was with the Scout Band where he started on the bass drum. He has played in the Winslow Concert Band for over 20 years.