We had a new piece of music composed for our 30th Anniversary Concert. It was named appropriately ‘Caribbean Pearl’ and was composed and arranged by Robert Thompson of Trinidad. You can listen to a recording from the concert on 21st October at our base at Henry Cavendish School in Balham.
Among our A to Z of countries visited, the most unusual country is probably North Korea. In 2004, a small group of 6 were invited to perform at the April Spring Friendship Festival in Pyongyang. This is a video of the Melodians performance at the concert and includes ‘Song of Dear Home’ composed by The Great Leader learnt especially for the event, followed by Danny Boy and Tropical Monsoon composed for the Melodians by the late Mikey Andrews.
The Melodians played today at the Royal Academy of Arts in Piccadilly for their annual Celebration of Summer Exhibition.
Received a lovely thank you from the organisers:
“Huge thanks to you and the band for playing at the Non-Members Varnishing Day today.
You played absolutely beautifully and everyone enjoyed your fabulous repertoire. We really appreciate you coming all the way into central London and hope you enjoyed the event too.”
Many thanks again.
To all our friends, you will be excited to know that we have updated the ‘Home’ page on the website with a short video ‘We Are The Melodians Steel Orchestra UK’ to introduce the Melodians to new visitors to the website.
We have also included a longer documentary about the Melodians on the About page to make it more interesting. You will also find this documentary on the ‘Sponsor Us’ page as it includes an appeal for a new sponsor to help us continue our great work.
The Melodians took a short summer break from rehearsals during August but they still found time on Saturday 20th August to record the ‘Toreador’ by Bizet. This was for the BBC’s first Virtual Orchestra which will be part of the Last Night of the Proms Celebrations on Saturday September 10. The Virtual Orchestra film will be shown at Proms in the Parks across the UK and will be available on iPlayer 5pm on Saturday September 10. See also www.bbc.co.uk/getplaying.
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