Pittington Brass Band perform at Ushaw Moor Baptist Chruch – Sat Dec 14th

A BRASS band wille to perform their annual Christmas concert next week.

Pittington Brass Band will perform at Ushaw Moor Baptist Church, in Ushaw Moor, Durham City on Saturday, December 14.

The church has a tradition of inviting the community and the band to join them for a free Christmas concert and supper.

The concert is known for giving the audience plenty of opportunity to join in with carols and other Christmas songs.

Doors open at 6:30pm and the concert begins at 7pm. No tickets are required, everyone is welcome.

via Brass band to play Xmas concert (From The Northern Echo).

Joe McElderry’s on a mission to help Japan – Chronicle News – News – ChronicleLive

NORTH East X Factor champ Joe McElderry is hoping his star power will help raise money for victims of the Japanese tsunami.

Ahead of recording his latest solo album, South Shields lad Joe will take to the stage in Tyneside for the first time this year to headline JapaNOISE.

He has met the organisers of the one-off concert, which aims to raise £50,000 for the Japanese Disaster Fund.

The event, which will be held at The Sage Gateshead later this month, was the brainchild of Northumbrian Water employee Jane Morland, from Ushaw Moor in County Durham.

Jane, along with Kingsley and Sayoko Smith from the North East Japanese Women’s Association, which estab-lished the Japanese Disaster Fund, got the chance to chat to Joe ahead of the gig to tell him about the devastating effects last March’s tsunami had on areas such as Fukushima and Miyagi.

via Joe McElderry’s on a mission to help Japan – Chronicle News – News – ChronicleLive.