boobs & brass flugel players

Flugel Horn Section

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Lisa Adams

Rushden Windmill

Lesley Bentley

I started to play at school and was taught by Donald Manning from Kettering Salvation Army. I moved to North Leicestershire and joined Hathern Band on Tenor Horn. When the Band were short of cornets, I moved to the cornet section temporarily to help out. I then moved on to Principal Cornet for 13 years! The Band moved through the sections to Championship Section when thankfully someone came along far better than me and I moved on to Flugel Horn.
Having had breast cancer myself I am absolutely delighted to be part of the brilliant Boobs and Brass and raising money to find a cure

Hathern

Sharon Clarke

I started playing in my teens when my father (who played solo cornet in the Rushden Mission Band) brought a tenor horn home and suggested that I learnt to play it as there were no tenor horn players in the band at that time! I started playing with the band several weeks later, and learnt 'on the job', luckily by that time some other tenor horn players had joined and so I could start on 2nd horn! A couple of years later the flugel horn player and I swapped instruments as she wanted to play tenor, I fell in love with the flugel horn and have been playing it ever since! I am proud to say that my 9 year old daughter is following the family tradition and has recently joined the Rushden Mission Training Band playing the cornet

Rushden Mission

Judith Hayes

Born in Batley, West Yorkshire, into a Salvation Army family, Judith heard her first brass band at the tender age of just six weeks. She started playing tenor horn at the age of 9 and played with the SA band in her home town until going to university, to study engineering science. After starting work in the Midlands in 1986, Judith joined Bilton Silver (Rugby) Band, with whom she has played ever since, holding the flugel horn position since 1988. As well as playing, Judith arranges and composes music for band, with her first published arrangement in 2005; she was thrilled to have the Boobies play her “Mongolian Folk Tune” at the concert in Kettering in 2009, and secretly nurtures two ambitions: to get a music degree and to have a top top band play one of her pieces.

www.biltonsilverband.co.uk
www.hayes.me.uk

Lynda Johnson

Born in Rochdale Lancs. Played with Littleborough Prize Band (got a cup for being the youngest player at Town Hall Rochdale), Bedford Church Leigh andGolbourne. My dad was conductor of these so moved with him.
Moved to Hastings and had a short stint with Ivy Benson All Girls Dance Band in Germany. Played in Sussex Brass Hastings (again conducted by my dad)
Then moved to Northampton with my job and joined Rushden Windmill (that’s how I know the 2 main tarts “Maggie and Jane”). Had a break for while to have my girlies. Played with Kibworth. Had another short break and then joined Raunds Temps and been there for nearly 14 years (for me sins ha!)

Raunds Temperance

Suzanne Smith

I first began playing a brass instrument aged 49, when parents of children in South Humberside Youth Brass were asked if they would ‘like a go,' so, armed with a Tune-a-Day book and a cornet, off I went to their next rehearsal. I soon joined Kingsway Printers Cleethorpes Band and remained with them for 15 years, during which time I began my ‘love affair’ with the flugelhorn.
I am currently helping out at Lincolnshire Hospitals band and am a member of Rambling Brass. I joined Boobs & Brass for the first - and simply ‘magical’ Whit Fridays. I have had some most amazingly wonderful times with 'The Boobies.’
Thanks ladies, you’re all great.
This year, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, but thankfully, due to early detection through attending my mammogram appointment, I shall be fine.

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Lisa Adams	Rushden Windmill
Lesley Bentley I started to play at school and was taught by Donald Manning from Kettering Salvation Army. I moved to North Leicestershire and joined Hathern Band on Tenor Horn. When the Band were short of cornets, I moved to the cornet section temporarily to help out. I then moved on to Principal Cornet for 13 years! The Band moved through the sections to Championship Section when thankfully someone came along far better than me and I moved on to Flugel Horn. Having had breast cancer myself I am absolutely delighted to be part of the brilliant Boobs and Brass and raising money to find a cure	Hathern
Sharon Clarke I started playing in my teens when my father (who played solo cornet in the Rushden Mission Band) brought a tenor horn home and suggested that I learnt to play it as there were no tenor horn players in the band at that time! I started playing with the band several weeks later, and learnt 'on the job', luckily by that time some other tenor horn players had joined and so I could start on 2nd horn! A couple of years later the flugel horn player and I swapped instruments as she wanted to play tenor, I fell in love with the flugel horn and have been playing it ever since! I am proud to say that my 9 year old daughter is following the family tradition and has recently joined the Rushden Mission Training Band playing the cornet	Rushden Mission
Judith Hayes Born in Batley, West Yorkshire, into a Salvation Army family, Judith heard her first brass band at the tender age of just six weeks. She started playing tenor horn at the age of 9 and played with the SA band in her home town until going to university, to study engineering science. After starting work in the Midlands in 1986, Judith joined Bilton Silver (Rugby) Band, with whom she has played ever since, holding the flugel horn position since 1988. As well as playing, Judith arranges and composes music for band, with her first published arrangement in 2005; she was thrilled to have the Boobies play her “Mongolian Folk Tune” at the concert in Kettering in 2009, and secretly nurtures two ambitions: to get a music degree and to have a top top band play one of her pieces.	www.biltonsilverband.co.uk www.hayes.me.uk
Lynda Johnson Born in Rochdale Lancs. Played with Littleborough Prize Band (got a cup for being the youngest player at Town Hall Rochdale), Bedford Church Leigh andGolbourne. My dad was conductor of these so moved with him. Moved to Hastings and had a short stint with Ivy Benson All Girls Dance Band in Germany. Played in Sussex Brass Hastings (again conducted by my dad) Then moved to Northampton with my job and joined Rushden Windmill (that’s how I know the 2 main tarts “Maggie and Jane”). Had a break for while to have my girlies. Played with Kibworth. Had another short break and then joined Raunds Temps and been there for nearly 14 years (for me sins ha!)	Raunds Temperance
Suzanne Smith I first began playing a brass instrument aged 49, when parents of children in South Humberside Youth Brass were asked if they would ‘like a go,' so, armed with a Tune-a-Day book and a cornet, off I went to their next rehearsal. I soon joined Kingsway Printers Cleethorpes Band and remained with them for 15 years, during which time I began my ‘love affair’ with the flugelhorn. I am currently helping out at Lincolnshire Hospitals band and am a member of Rambling Brass. I joined Boobs & Brass for the first - and simply ‘magical’ Whit Fridays. I have had some most amazingly wonderful times with 'The Boobies.’ Thanks ladies, you’re all great. This year, I was diagnosed with breast cancer, but thankfully, due to early detection through attending my mammogram appointment, I shall be fine.