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DID YOU KNOW??
I started playing when I was 9 and my brother Carl was 8. We shared a cornet for the first 6 weeks
Sid Bland was my first teacher then Ted Bradley
I was also taught at school from age 12 by Ken Henton son of Tommy Henton who played in LE in 1927 when they won the Crystal Palace contest although we didn’t know at the time! (He also conducted LESPB)
We were also taught at school by Jack Mather who conducted Newark town band and who used to play at Ransomes Band
I ended up playing for Ransomes many years later.
I was the first girl who played for Ransomes and the first lady conductor of Long Eaton.
I also do my own compering at concerts and my jokes are famous (or should that be infamous)
 Sharon
aged 3 <grin>
Sharon also received lessons from Peter Lacey
and David Bentley at the South Derbyshire Music Centre.
At Bilborough College, Sharon received
lessons from Laurie Fraser.
 Sharon
with Banner
Sharon does her own compering at concerts and her jokes are famous
(or should that be infamous?)
VENUES
Sharon
has played in lots of prestigious venues including the Royal Albert
Hall, Festival Hall, Regents Park, St. James’s Park, South
Band, Wembley Arena and Hammersmith Town Hall in London, the Birmingham
Symphony Hall, the Manchester Free Trade Hall, the Albert Hall
in Nottingham, the Nottingham and Derby Playhouses, the de Montford
Hall in Leicester and the Musicverein in Vienna.
Sharon also played at the opening of the Nottingham Royal Concert
Hall, along a canal tow path for a “duck race” and
on the back of a lorry!
TV and RADIO RECORDINGS
I have appeared on television a number of times, including “Pebble Mill at One” with William Davis Band, Central TV’s Documentary “24hours” with Kirkby Colliery which followed the band to the area contest in 1997 where we won first prize in the 3rd section, and also a health programme about cold sores featuring Ibstock band!!
I have also done various radio broadcasts with Long Eaton Silver Prize Band in the 1970’s on BBC Radio Nottingham, Listen to the Band with William Davis Band and also a broadcast for National Swiss radio with Ransomes band. I have also appeared on several CDs including Foss Dyke and Nottingham City Transport bands.
I have played in most European countries including, France where I played solo cornet with Thoresby Colliery band when they won the French Open in 2003, Germany twice with Ransomes, Belgium with NCT band, Switzerland with Ransomes band, Holland with Huthwaite, Wales and Scotland with Long Eaton! And also Cyprus as principal cornet of Sherwood Brass, a touring scratch band made up of local players. I have also been conductor of Sherwood Brass on their tour of Cyprus 2005
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