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Marshside Band Invited to take part in Historic titanic Centenary Commemorations

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Marshside Brass Band are excited and honoured to announce that we have been invited to play at the Centenary Commemorations marking the tragic sinking of RMS Titanic. The Band will be performing in Liverpool’s Adelphi Hotel, Sefton Suite, a room built as a replica of the famous first class ‘Smoking Room’ onboard the ill-fated Liner.

It is perhaps appropriate that a band with strong foundations in the fishing community of Southport should be chosen to pay tribute to those who endured and those succumbed to the sea that night.

However the event is made all the more poignant because our own Musical Director Peter Leary, is the Nephew of George Orrell, Musical Director of the Carpathia, and aboard that night in April 1912, as she went to the aid of Titanic. Peter has written a short biography of his uncles’ career and events that night, click here for a more full account.

The occasion hopes to reconnect with the story of Titanic by recreating some of the events at sea as the impending tragedy loomed and in the aftermath of the sinking. Marshside Brass Band will be playing at the ‘Welcome Aboard’ evening, Tuesday April 10th 6pm, as 100 years earlier passengers settled in to their voyage unaware of the horror that lay ahead.