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New Term, New Faces

Brilliant start to the term with 2 new Trombonists, a Drummer and several younger members moving up from the Junior Orchestra. We had a...

Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot!

Final rehearsal of the term in it's hot. I'm hot. They're hot. We ran through the remainder of the pieces to check timings and some...

Nearly There!

Not a bad rehearsal today. Some key players were missing but we managed to rehearse Empire Strikes Back (not ideal for Father's Day!!)...

Jubilee Celebrations

In case you couldn't get enough of the jubilee festivities we're holding our celebration prom concert in at 5pm in Powderham Castle...

Spring Concert

What a great evening. The children did us proud and performed their hearts out. I was lovely to be able to include the two junior...

Classical music need not be boring

First concert of 2022! And we are off to a Flying Start with the youth orchestra performing at St Michael’s Church in Teignmouth as part...

Celebrating 50 (well, 51) years of ECO!

Lockdown may have put a stop to our 50th anniversary celebrations in 2020, but we came back with a bang and celebrated them in 2021...

I'm Back! We're Back!

After over a year of online rehearsals, performances and, sorry to say, my incarceration in hospital having heart surgery we are back and...

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

We had a great concert on Saturday night at the Exeter Salvation Army. We filled the platform and a great many seats too. This year we...

Hello! I'm Back!

I'm sorry I've missed a weeks of blogging but things have been really hectic. Lest week we had a fantastic session recording audition...

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