Triangle Brass Band

Connie Varner answered the questionnaire:

1) What do you love about brass band music?
The cohesive sound (low to high brass), the people.

2) Most shining moment.
Winning the 1989 NABBA Contest in the Championship Division, playing a Joint Concert with the U.S. Army Brass Band.

3) Most requested song.
This is tough. We don't get a lot of requests. Probably our ``most played song'' is Amazing Grace.

4) Percentage of the year spent travelling.
About 1 percent -- we don't travel much as a group.

5) Other than Danville, one of the most interesting places to perform and why. We played a wedding on Spring Island, SC last year, on the old Tabby Plantation, which was interesting. One member also cites the Barn at Fearrington, where we have played a few times -- a very neat place for a concert (a nice barn.)

6) The one food staple that is a must when traveling and why.
No response on this. However, the Board of Directors can't function without pizza.

7) Where was the most receptive audience?
One person says the Wilmington (NC) Historic Society, another says Fearrington, I thought the crowd at the New York Brass Conference was receptive.

8) Funniest incident that almost stopped the show.
One person mentioned an incident where, on an outdoor concert, a soloist had his music blow off the stand; this really did stop the concert at least for a moment. Another person mentions the time that the conductor got mixed up on the time of the concert (thought it was at 7:30 in the evening, when it was actually at 3:00 in the afternoon). He didn't show up, so we picked a member (we have several that conduct bands at the high school and middle school level) who conducted the concert; we don't think anyone in the audience noticed that it wasn't our usual conductor.

9) Little known fact about your group.
No one could think of any. Most of what we are we try to publicize regularly.