HOLBORN Hill Royal Brass Band continued the Grange-over-Sands' summer season with its Sunday afternoon concert in the Esplanade bandstand.

The event opened with the National Anthem which was followed by the march, Castle Coch.

A large, knowledgeable, and very appreciative audience was treated to a variety of composers including Handel (Air from Rinaldo); Holst (Second Suite in F Major); Schubert's Marche Militaire no 1; and the haunting flugel horn solo of Bill Nicholson in Mozart's Young Amadeus.

The programme included many well-remembered tunes, and a tongue-in-cheek invitation to dance - The Stripper and The Gay Gordons.

The band's policy of encouraging young talent was evident with four of the junior band taking a full part in the concert.

No brass band concert could be complete without a Kenneth Alford march, and the band chose the very popular Colonel Bogey, which set the audience's feet tapping.

A change of emphasis, the band took the audience on a world tour with Swinging Safari, Little Swiss Polka, Dear Old Donegal and Hawaiian Samba, returning home with The Harbour Lights.

Being a brass band giving a concert on a Sunday, some of the old hymns were included, and greatly appreciated, especially The Old Rugged Cross.

The programme ended with the band's signature tune The Cumbrian, which had been presented to the band by its composer, the late Harold Miller.