The AD Concert band is a community based Wind Band with over sixty members, from teenagers to octogenarians, who range from enthusiastic amateurs to graduate standard players. Our aim is to provide an opportunity for musicians for all ages to make music together and to bring the enjoyment of wind band music to a wide range of audiences.
The Band is based in Solihull, West Midlands, where it rehearses once a week. We perform a wide variety of concerts throughout the year, including formal evening concerts, village fetes and park bandstands, as well as joining forces with other bands and choirs for specific events.
In 2009 the band recorded it's first CD, entitled In Celebration. The Celebration is of the band's thirty-three years of music making and the 100th birthday of the late Vi Doyle, the widow of the band's founder.
The CD contains some of the Band's favourite repertoire and also pieces which have proved popular with our audiences -
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Selection from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Richard and Robert Shermann
Dambusters - Eric Coates
El Cumbanchero - Rafel Hernandez
New World Fantasy - Gordon Langford
Pirates of the Caribbean - Klaus Badelt
Rondo from Horn Concert No. 4 - W. A. Mozart
Seventeen Come Sunday - from Vaughan Williams' English Folk Song Suite
Shadow of your Smile - Johnny Mandel
Singin' in the Rain - Nacio Herb Brown
Slipstream - Philip Sparke
The Typewriter - Leroy Anderson
Walking the Dog - George Gershwin
The CD is available for purchase at our concerts and also available for order via this website. Visit the shop via the menu above ! In addition tracks from our CD are available for purchase on Itunes, Emusic and other WEB music stores.
We now have a webshop to allow you to place orders for our CD. You can place an order and pay by cheque where we will sent it to you by post, or you can pay by cash and collect at one of our concerts or from a rehearsal. At the moment we do not take online payments, but we hope to be able to offer further payment methods in future.
Tracks from our CD are also now available through Itunes, Emusic and many other WEB music stores
We now have a webshop to allow you to place orders for our CD. You can place an order and pay by cheque where we will sent it to you by post, or you can pay by cash and collect at one of our