The Cottonwood Brass ~

Peach Social Concert

"Brass Old and New"

A Beautiful Sunday Afternoon on the Lawn at Cottonwood Mansion, Selkirk, Ontario

Ryan Baker, Cornet and Trumpet; Graham Young, Cornet, Cornopean and Trumpet;  Johnny Bissell, Horn, Tenor Cor and Alto Saxhorn;  Mary Ann Pearson, Euphonium, Tenor Saxhorn and Trombone and Dave Pearson, Tuba and Helicon.

Music of the 19th and 20th centuries performed on antique and modern instruments.  Everything from  the March and Two Step,  Broadway, Jazz and Medleys kept the audience tapping their toes.

Thank you to the volunteers and to Cottonwood Brass.

 

Dave and Mary Ann Take a Break to Change From "Old" to "New." 

Dave & Mary Ann Pearson live in Cayuga.  They play with the Brock University Winds, the Tubarifics quartet , the Cambridge Symphony and the Hamilton and Burlington Concert Bands.


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From a Railway Carriage ~

by Robert Louis Stevenson 

Faster than fairies, faster than witches,

Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches;

And charging along like troops in a battle,

All through the meadows the horses and cattle:

All of the sights of the hill and the plain

Fly as thick as driving rain;

And ever again, in the wink of an eye,

Painted stations whistle by.

Here is a child who clambers and scrambles,

All by himself and gathering brambles;

Here is a tramp who stands and gazes;

And there is the green for stringing the daisies!

Here is a cart run away in the road

Lumping along with man and load;

And here is a mill and there is a river:

Each a glimpse and gone for ever!

~ Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) Scottish novelist, poet.

Photo: Canadian National Exibition, Toronto, ON, 2012.