Brassy women
By: Chris Vale
Publisher: Dales
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Long Preston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781842627211
Subjects: Brass bands; Social life and customs; Manners and customs; Women musicians; Fiction
Description: "Lancashire in the early 1960s. The heady world of the brass band is almost entirely a male preserve. Except for the Adlington Ladies. Put together in piecemeal fashion with conductor Lucy at the helm, their aim is to beat the all-male Great Hulme Motors Band at next year's brass band festival. Each member of the women's band has her own life outside band practice, and their trials and tribulations are related with gentle northern humour. Even their motley collection of instruments presents problems, with the chronic lack of a drum kit (and a drummer) - and a piano that turns traitor!"--Publisher's description.