THE ELASTIC BAND STRETCHES ITSELF!

The start of 2012 may yet prove to be one of the most significant in Fermanagh Concert Band’s history – and it’s all down to another band!  The band we mean is the Elastic Band, our latest venture and a most exciting one at that.  As extensively covered in the autumn of 2011 in the local press, this group was set up with a seeding grant from the Joan Trimble Awards scheme.  The Elastic Band is a sister group to Fermanagh Concert Band, serving as both trainer band, improver band, feeder band – basically it’s for ‘musicians in waiting’ who for whatever reason aren’t quite ready to dive straight into the main band.  By definition therefore it’s for you if you’re a younger player, if you’re an adult learner, if you’ve recently taken up a new instrument . . . and all these categories of player are represented in the current members of the Elastic Band.  Since January they’ve been meeting every Monday night and great progress has been made.