The major event every year is the “Proms” concert organised by Aylesbury Town Council in Vale Park, Aylesbury. This year the band was joined by soloists Alison Langer and Lawrence Thackray and the Next Stage Choir in a programme of Musicals from stage and screen, including Les Misérables, Wicked, Hairspray, and Matilda. As usual the concert took place on the August Bank Holiday Sunday, 25th August.
The weather that evening was unseasonably cool with a brief sprinkling of rain as we were about to start, but that didn’t deter a crowd of several thousand people filling the park to enjoy the music.
As usual the concert ended with the traditional “Proms” finale, Jerusalem, Fantasia on British Sea Songs (with Alison Langer singing Rule Britannia), and Elgar’s Pomp and Circumstance March no. 1, accompanying Land of Hope and Glory, followed by a firework display.
Here is a recording of the concert…