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Echo memories - When the brass bands took centre stage

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From: The Northern Echo
Date: 20080305
Author:Keith Proud

This month, two Northern traditions will join forces for one of the year's most anticipated cultural eventsAT 7.30 pm, on Friday, March 14, two great Northern treasures will come together to stage what will surely be an unforgettable evening when Reeth Brass Band travels to Swaledale to play a concert in Richmond's delightful 18th Century Georgian Theatre Royal. The result of this combination of sound and setting should be superb.Early in 1788, halfway through the reign of King George III, the actor, theatre manager and entrepreneur Samuel Butler wrote to the mayor and the Corporation of ...

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