We are very excited to be rehearsing for yet another concert at the wonderful PumpHouse Theatre.

This time we are holding a celebration of various festive music and classic tunes as we welcome the Holiday Season. Featuring music by Gustav Holst, Frank Sinatra, sing-a-long carols, Christmas music, and more!

Tickets on sales now at https://pumphouse.co.nz/whats-on/show/festivities/

We are very sad to say goodbye to Leo Jaffrey who has been a wonderful MD over the last few years. We wish him every success in his studies at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire in England, where he will soon be starting a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting.

Replacing Leo, we are very happy to introduce our new MD Natalie Paine.

Natalie was born in South Australia and educated at Brighton Secondary School on a music scholarship. She holds a Bachelor of Music - Honours (Classical Performance) from the University of Adelaide Elder Conservatorium and a Graduate Certificate of Music Studies from the Queensland Conservatorium Griffith University.

Natalie has worked as a freelance horn player, ensemble director and brass teacher both in Australia and New Zealand. She is currently employed as a full-time Musician with the Royal New Zealand Navy Band specialising in horn.

Come and join the North Shore Concert Band for a celebration of the Best of British.

After postponing this concert twice we are very much looking forward to finally putting it on (fingers crossed!)

Sunday 26th June 2pm

 The PumpHouse Theatre, Takapuna

The band will be playing a number of time-honoured favourites such as ‘Land of Hope and Glory’, ‘Nimrod’ and ‘Jerusalem’ plus some great show-tunes and other classics. They will be joined on stage by the very talented Michael Jamieson, principal saxophonist for the NZ Navy Band, who will also be bringing his bagpipes for ‘Highland Cathedral'

We encourage you to dress in your red, white, and blues and bring your singing voices for what we hope will be a very fun afternoon!

Tickets available from https://pumphouse.co.nz/whats-on/show/last-night-of-the-proms/

Unfortunately due to the extended COVID restrictions in Auckland we have had to postpone this concert again.

We hope to be able to reschedule in 2022.

Due to the arrival of COVID on our shores we had to postpone our big annual concert and rehearsals are on hold until Auckland drops to COVID Alert Level 2.

Last Night of the Proms is now scheduled for Friday 26th November at 7:30 pm

We really hope we will be able to go ahead with it this time and we expect a full house if it does.

Come and join the North Shore Concert Band for a celebration of the Best of British.

Sunday 29th August 2pm

The PumpHouse Theatre, Takapuna

The band will be playing a number of time-honoured favourites such as ‘Land of Hope and Glory’, ‘Nimrod’ and ‘Jerusalem’ plus some great show-tunes and other classics. They will be joined on stage by the very talented Michael Jamieson, principal saxophonist for the NZ Navy Band, who will also be bringing his bagpipes for ‘Highland Cathedral’.

We encourage you to dress in your red, white, and blues and bring your singing voices for what we hope will be a very fun afternoon!

Tickets available from https://pumphouse.co.nz/whats-on/show/last-night-of-the-proms/

Unfortunately there is too much wind for an outdoor concert today so we have had to cancel.

Our annual concert at the PumpHouse Theatre entitled Exultation! A Musical Celebration held on November 15th at the PumpHouse Theatre in Takapuna was a great success.

We had a really good number of audience members who all seemed very appreciative of our performance.

We feel very privileged to be able to perform at all in 2020

Rehearsals are sounding great and we are really looking forward to our first concert since lock-down.

Here is the programme:

Exultation! (Philip Sparke)

Selections from Sound of Music (R Rodgers, arr. Jim Christiansen)

Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Movement 1 (W.A. Mozart, arr. T Birkett)

I Left my Heart in San Francisco (George Cory and Douglass Cross, arr. Alfred Reed)

Satin Doll (Duke Ellington, arr. Bob Lowden)

Memory (Andrew Lloyd Webber, arr. Bob Lowden)

Mercy, Mery, Mercy (Josef Zawinul, arr. Jerry Nowak)

Sunrise, Sunset (Sheldon Harnick and Jerry Bock, arr. Bob Lowden)

Malaguena (Ernesto Lecuona, arr. Jerry Nowak)

Theme from Cabaret (John Kander and Fred Ebb, arr. Jerry Nowak)

The Dam Busters March (Coates, arr. Duthoit W)

Symphony No. 9 (Anton Dvorak, arr. James Curnow)

Girl with the Flaxen Hair (Debussy, arr. Michael Brand)

Come Fly with Me (James Van Heusen, arr. Paul Murtha)

Bohemian Rhapsody (Freddie Mercury, arr. John Berry)

Georgia On My Mind (Hoagy Carmichael, arr. J Higgins)

Hoagy Carmichael in Concert (Hoagy Carmichael, arr. Warren Barker)

What a Wonderful World (George David Weiss and Bob Thiele, arr. Bob Lowden)

There were times when it seemed that this wasn't likey to happen, but we are practising hard for our big Annual Concert at the lovely PumpHouse Theatre in Takapuna.

This time we have called it 'Exultation! A Musical Celebration' and features a programme of exciting and uplifting music to help take us away from the daily worries of life.

The programme will feature a wide variety of music from marches to musicals, with pieces by Mozart, Queen, Debussy, Hoagy Carmichael, and more. We will open with the wonderful (and challenging to play)  'Exultation!' by Philip Sparke

Sunday 15th November at 2pm

Tickets are available now from www.pumphouse.co.nz