Following the success of 2019, the Reading Spring Gardens Brass Band entered 2020 with a very strong membership of players under the baton of Matthew Ruel. The band was set to perform the work ‘Endurance’ composed by Andrew Baker at the 2020 Regional Brass Band Championships of Great Britain as a third section band – a significant achievement in itself. However, it was not to be, as the world was taken by surprise with the Covid-19 pandemic, which saw the United Kingdom enter a national lockdown. The health and well-being of all members, friends of the band and the wider community was, and is, paramount above all else, and as such, all public performances ceased. The band ends 2020 hopeful that 2021 will bring good health… and a return to brass band music making for all!
Saturday 21st March 2020 – London and Southern Counties Regional Contest (Third Section), Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage – All Day
Saturday 2nd May – Brass Fest Reading, The Bulmershe Auditorium – All Day
Sunday 31st May – scaba Entertainment Contest, The Hawth, Crawley – Entry TBC
Sunday 7th June – Forbury Gardens Bandstand – 3pm to 4:30pm
Sunday 5th July – Eastbourne Bandstand – 3pm to 4.30pm
Saturday 25th July – 127th Annual Show of the Stoke Poges, Wexham & Fulmer Horticultural Society in the grounds of Stoke Poges School – 1pm to 4pm
Saturday 5th September – Broad Street, Reading – 10am to 11.30am and 1pm to 2.30pm
Sunday 13th September – Forbury Gardens Bandstand – 3pm to 4:30pm
Sunday 25th October – Charitable Concert, Reading – 3pm
Sunday 8th November – Service of Remembrance, Forbury War Memorial, Reading – 10am to 11.15am
Wednesday 11th November – Armistice Day, Forbury War Memorial, Reading – Bugle Team – 11am
Friday 4th December – Bosco Lounge, Woodley – 8pm
Saturday 5th December – Carolling, Morrisons Supermarket, Rose Kiln Road, Reading – 10am to 2pm
Sunday 6th December – Carolling, Morrisons Supermarket, Rose Kiln Road, Reading – 10am to 2pm
Thursday 10th December – Concert: ‘A Christmas Flavour’ – 8pm
Saturday 12th December – Carolling, Morrisons Supermarket, Rose Kiln Road, Reading – 10am to 2pm
Sunday 13th December – Carolling, Morrisons Supermarket, Rose Kiln Road, Reading – 10am to 2pm
Thursday 17th December – Christmas Dinner – 8pm
Saturday 19th December – Carolling, Morrisons Supermarket, Rose Kiln Road, Reading – 10am to 2pm
Sunday 20th December – Carolling, Morrisons Supermarket, Rose Kiln Road, Reading – 10am to 2pm