The Band
Conductor - Kenneth Blackwood
The band rehearses on Monday and Thursday evenings, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at the Croy Miners' Welfare Charitable Society.
You can contact the band using the Contact Us form.
The band rehearses on Monday and Thursday evenings, from 7.30pm to 9.30pm at the Croy Miners' Welfare Charitable Society.
You can contact the band using the Contact Us form.
List of band members (November 2010):
Principal Cornet Jim O’Donnell (Committee Member)
Solo Cornet Danny Brady (Band Secretary)
Solo Cornet Johan Hentze
Solo Cornet Vacant
Soprano Cornet Grant Golding (Committee Member)
Repiano Cornet Patricia Rafferty
2nd Cornet Tommy Rafferty (Committee Member)
2nd Cornet Fiona Devlin
3rd Cornet Carol Devlin
3rd Cornet Grant McDaid
Flugel Horn Jordan Currie
Solo Horn Elaine Stewart
1st Horn Gillian Aitken
2nd Horn Matthew Campbell
Solo Euphonium Tom Carberry (Committee Member)
2nd Euphonium Tony Jarvie
1st Baritone Andy McAtee
2nd Baritone John McAtee (Band President)
Solo Trombone Jennifer Aitken
2nd Trombone Elaine Fernie
Bass Trombone Colin MacDonald
EEb Bass James McKenna
EEb Bass Gregor Taylor
BBb Bass Joe Hadnum (Committee Member)
BBb Bass John Maley (Band Treasurer)
Kit Percussion Liam Horn
Tuned Percussion Ali Tucker (Committee Member)
Tuned Percussion Vacant
Principal Cornet Jim O’Donnell (Committee Member)
Solo Cornet Danny Brady (Band Secretary)
Solo Cornet Johan Hentze
Solo Cornet Vacant
Soprano Cornet Grant Golding (Committee Member)
Repiano Cornet Patricia Rafferty
2nd Cornet Tommy Rafferty (Committee Member)
2nd Cornet Fiona Devlin
3rd Cornet Carol Devlin
3rd Cornet Grant McDaid
Flugel Horn Jordan Currie
Solo Horn Elaine Stewart
1st Horn Gillian Aitken
2nd Horn Matthew Campbell
Solo Euphonium Tom Carberry (Committee Member)
2nd Euphonium Tony Jarvie
1st Baritone Andy McAtee
2nd Baritone John McAtee (Band President)
Solo Trombone Jennifer Aitken
2nd Trombone Elaine Fernie
Bass Trombone Colin MacDonald
EEb Bass James McKenna
EEb Bass Gregor Taylor
BBb Bass Joe Hadnum (Committee Member)
BBb Bass John Maley (Band Treasurer)
Kit Percussion Liam Horn
Tuned Percussion Ali Tucker (Committee Member)
Tuned Percussion Vacant
Conductor - Kenneth Blackwood
Conductor Kenneth Blackwood
Although spending most of his life living in Kirkintilloch, Kenneth was actually born in St Andrews in the Kingdom of Fife. He started playing the Eb Horn at secondary school and quickly joined Kirkintilloch Junior Band. Two years later he changed to F horn but was still invited to attended the band (this time Senior Band) by their then conductor the late David James.
“I remember the very first time I heard the band at full pelt (John Dickson,Jim Smith et all) in the old wooden band room beside the canal and thinking that it was such a great sound….”
He attended the RSAMD from 1976-84 (4 years junior-4 years senior). and was awarded the horn prize in 1983 and 84. (He was the first horn player to play the Gregson Horn Concerto for F Horn and Brass Band in an Academy Post Graduate recital).
After graduating at Glasgow University (joint course) he was appointed Assistant Principal Horn to the Scottish Opera Orchestra by Sir Alex Gibson. Two years later he moved to Assistant Principal Horn in the then SNO and stayed there for the next seventeen years.
During his spell with the RSNO he performed in concerts with Pavarotti, Yehudi Menuhin, Barry Tuckwell, John Lill, John Ogdon and many other great soloists as well as “being fortunate enough to have recorded some fantastic film sound tracks”. …Batman, Superman, Mission Impossible, Out of Africa …”far too many to remember”, with their original composers, Gerry Goldsmith, Lalo Shiffron, Ron Goodwin, Elmer Bernstein etc.
Kenneth has also performed many times on television, and is the horn player on the last series of Harry Secombes “Highway” programme. In April 2003 he left the RSNO to take up his present position as Senior Teacher in the East Renfrewshire Music Service. Kenneth has given In Service Training, lectures, adjudicates and given Master Classes throughout Britain. He helped design the Kinder Horn for Boosey and Hawkes and still plays regularly.
“I remember the very first time I heard the band at full pelt (John Dickson,Jim Smith et all) in the old wooden band room beside the canal and thinking that it was such a great sound….”
He attended the RSAMD from 1976-84 (4 years junior-4 years senior). and was awarded the horn prize in 1983 and 84. (He was the first horn player to play the Gregson Horn Concerto for F Horn and Brass Band in an Academy Post Graduate recital).
After graduating at Glasgow University (joint course) he was appointed Assistant Principal Horn to the Scottish Opera Orchestra by Sir Alex Gibson. Two years later he moved to Assistant Principal Horn in the then SNO and stayed there for the next seventeen years.
During his spell with the RSNO he performed in concerts with Pavarotti, Yehudi Menuhin, Barry Tuckwell, John Lill, John Ogdon and many other great soloists as well as “being fortunate enough to have recorded some fantastic film sound tracks”. …Batman, Superman, Mission Impossible, Out of Africa …”far too many to remember”, with their original composers, Gerry Goldsmith, Lalo Shiffron, Ron Goodwin, Elmer Bernstein etc.
Kenneth has also performed many times on television, and is the horn player on the last series of Harry Secombes “Highway” programme. In April 2003 he left the RSNO to take up his present position as Senior Teacher in the East Renfrewshire Music Service. Kenneth has given In Service Training, lectures, adjudicates and given Master Classes throughout Britain. He helped design the Kinder Horn for Boosey and Hawkes and still plays regularly.
