| Penn View Brass Band Benefit Concert for Friends of Upper Dublin Public Library |
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Posted: Thursday, November 10, 2011 11:42 pm
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The Friends of Upper Dublin Public Library will present a benefit
concert featuring the Penn View Brass Band (PVBB) on Sunday, November
13th at the Jarrettown United Methodist Church Fellowship Hall, 1460
Limekiln Pike in Dresher. PVBB, an authentic British-style brass band
and a member of the North American Brass Band Association (NABBA),
was formed in 2008 and is based in Montgomery County. PVBB is one of
only a handful of brass bands in Pennsylvania. The band consists of
approximately 25 brass and percussion musicians from the greater
Philadelphia area. It was organized by local music educators Jim
O’Donnell and John Shaw (director). The band’s name comes from the
glimpse of William Penn atop Philadelphia’s City Hall as seen from
the Trooper Road location of the band’s rehearsal studio. PVBB
rehearsals are held in a music studio in a converted barn at the
O’Donnell’s residence, known as the “Penn View Farm.”
Brass bands date back to the early nineteenth century and England's
Industrial Revolution, with a vibrant tradition of competition based
around local industry and communities. Instrumentation includes
cornets, flugelhorns, tenor horns, baritones, trombones, euphoniums,
B flat and E flat basses, and percussion - no woodwind instruments.
Bands using the British instrumentation are the most common form of
brass band in the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.The band
will present a diverse, crowd-pleasing selection of music from
concert pieces to lighter works.
Advance sale tickets are available at the Upper Dublin Public
Library: Adults - $10; Members of the Friends of UDPL - $8; Children
13-18 - $5; and Children 12 and younger - Free. Tickets (same
pricing) will be available at the door day of concert. All proceeds
benefit the UDPL through the Friends organization. Attendees are
invited to stay for free light refreshments and to meet band members
after the concert. The Friends of UDPL provides funding for many of
the library's programs, the Summer Reading Program, and library
automation such as electronic reference sources, and special purchases.
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