{"id":176,"date":"2023-02-02T12:05:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T12:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/?page_id=176"},"modified":"2023-02-19T20:04:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T20:04:25","slug":"alton-concert-band-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/?page_id=176","title":{"rendered":"Alton Concert Band History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alton Concert Band was founded in 2010. It was created and initially led by Les Packett ,followed later by Hannah Foulkes until 2012 , when it was taken over by <a href=\"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/?page_id=203\">Ian Morrish<\/a> . During Ian&#8217;s leadership, the band grew from strength to strength , growing from a small band consisting of around six players to the 40 + strong concert band it is today. Ian raised the band&#8217;s profile and standard under his 10 year leadership , encouraging and teaching the players to take on more demanding pieces and taking the band forward to the high profile band it is today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band now performs about six times a year at various events, ranging from local fetes to major fund-raising concerts . Visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/?page_id=158\">future Events<\/a>  page for future events. Each of the band concerts adopts a theme ranging raising money for local and national charities such as the Cardia Rehab, Bushy Leaze . <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our Musical Director, Ian Morrish sadly passed away in November 2022 and the baton was taken over by his son <a href=\"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/?page_id=33\">Jeremy.<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"505\" src=\"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0F892A6A-8C97-4827-9CC8-7AC91C017F07_1_201_a-1-1024x505.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0F892A6A-8C97-4827-9CC8-7AC91C017F07_1_201_a-1-1024x505.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0F892A6A-8C97-4827-9CC8-7AC91C017F07_1_201_a-1-300x148.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0F892A6A-8C97-4827-9CC8-7AC91C017F07_1_201_a-1-768x379.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0F892A6A-8C97-4827-9CC8-7AC91C017F07_1_201_a-1-850x419.jpeg 850w, https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/0F892A6A-8C97-4827-9CC8-7AC91C017F07_1_201_a-1.jpeg 1148w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">One of the many concerts held at the Alton Maltings, directed by the late Ian Morrish<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-date\"><time datetime=\"2023-02-02T12:05:56+00:00\">February 2, 2023<\/time><\/div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/\">Alton Concert Band<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alton Concert Band was founded in 2010. It was created and initially led by Les Packett ,followed later by Hannah Foulkes until 2012 , when it was taken over by Ian Morrish . During Ian&#8217;s leadership, the band grew from strength to strength , growing from a small band consisting of around six players to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-176","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/176\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/altonconcertband.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}