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Live Performance
Wind Band
The RAF Halton Area Voluntary Band is based in Wendover near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire.
Its members come from all walks of life, including the Armed Forces and the Civil Service. The majority of the band are local civilians who travel from a wide area to meet every Tuesday evening.
The rehearsals are held at RAF Halton and we play from 19.30 to 21.30, with a break for a coffee and a chat!
The band can provide a wide variety of ensembles to suit any musical event.
The current Bandmaster is David Richards GCGI who has only been in post since the start of October. He has joined us after serving 36 years within RAF Music Services.
The band was originally formed in the 1920’s as an amateur musical outlet for the RAF apprentices, who learnt their various technical trades at Halton.
In those long-gone days, each wing had its own band, who would march the apprentices to various parts of the camp for different lessons, parades etc.
As Halton is no longer an apprentice training station, its members, whilst still amateurs, are drawn from a wider spectrum of service life. In fact, due to the increased number of civilians (civil servants and contractors etc.) that now work on military establishments, the membership of the band now includes ex-service and civilian musicians as well.
The band performs at many different types of function each year, from official parades, air shows and concerts, to church services, formal dinners and receptions.
The band is often to be seen during the summer months at bandstands around the country, especially in London and on the south coast.
In recent years the band has toured abroad, playing concerts in Norway, France, Germany, Malta and Austria. October 2007 saw the band on a duty tour in Cyprus, playing for an investiture, for the British High Commission in Nicosia and at two service charity concerts.
The present band is drawn from other RAF stations besides Halton. These include Benson, High Wycombe, Northolt, Brize Norton and MOD in London. This means that some band members regularly travel more than 30 miles to attend the weekly rehearsals and engagements.lessons, parades etc.
If you play a woodwind, brass or percussion instrument to grade 5 or above come along and join us
Plans to create a riverside garden in this area date from 1893 although the possibilities must have been discussed for some years prior to this, as in 1895, land had been purchased, and by 1902 the gardens were sufficiently complete to permit the planting of a London Plane tree in August 1902 to celebrate the Coronation of Edward VII and his Queen, Alexandra.
A bandstand was also erected and the band of the Royal Horse Guards played there regularly.
A replacement bandstand was built in 2016 a Royal Borough heritage project was awarded a grant from the Armed Forces Community Covenant, celebrating the unique and long-standing links between the Queen, armed forces and Windsor.
It also commemorates the Queen as the longest-reigning monarch in British history and in turn the longest-reigning Head of the Armed Forces.
The role of the armed forces is explored in the six commemorative plaques on the bandstand by illustrative artist Rebecca Elliott.
Each of the plaques displays one important event involving the armed forces from each of the six decades of the Queen's reign.
The events were the subject of schools-based workshops from which key themes were identified and used to inform the final artwork.
In June 2009 The Dyson Memorial Fountain (which had been moved from its Barry Avenue location) was extensively refurbished and now stands in the south-east corner by the Goswell Road entrance of the Park.
The Memorial, in the form of a drinking fountain, commemorates Thomas Dyson who founded 'Dyson and Sons', pianoforte dealers of Thames Street in 1865 and who became Mayor in1890.
Thomas Dyson actively promoted improvements in the town, such as the construction of The Promenade.
A walk around the perimeter of this park will contribute 950 steps to the advised 10,000 daily steps recommended to improve fitness.
Goswell Road,
Windsor,
Berkshire,
England,
SL4 5JA.
Free Admission with a voluntary collection
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