Performing together in London for the first time in two decades, a one-off performance by the Berry Hill Silver Band as part of Hilary Lloyd, Very High Frequency.
Within the exhibition, the fifteen-piece Berry Hill Silver Band will perform a programme of popular favourites from their repertoire and traditional marches alongside music from Potter’s works.
This one-off performance will be staged within a setting inspired by Potter’s fantasy sequences, including classics such as Early One Morning and Soldiers Chorus from Faust (Beast With Two Backs), There Is A Green Hill Far Away (Cold Lazarus), Lily Marlene and We'll Meet Again (Singing Detective).
Doors: 1.30 pm
First Set: 2-2.45 pm
Interval: 15 min
Second Set: 3-3.30 pm
The Berry Hill Silver Band was founded in 1911 through the merger of a local temperance group and miners from Speedwell Colliery. During the 19th and 20th centuries, brass bands were a common feature of coal mining communities across the UK, with many, such as Berry Hill, participating in union-led galas and demonstrations organised by the National Union of Mineworkers.
Based in Berry Hill, Forest of Dean, where writer Dennis Potter was born, the band has a long-standing connection to Potter, who briefly played with them as a young man. Potter set and filmed many of his works in the Forest of Dean, a region whose mining communities and rural, post-industrial character deeply shaped his writing. Potter frequently involved the band in his productions, including A Beast With Two Backs, Cold Lazarus and his early BBC documentary Between Two Rivers (1960).
Free, suggested donation £5
