Percussionist Collection

Sri Lanka - Geta Beraya and Udekkiya players
Traditional Sri Lankna drums and drummers. The standing player is holding a hill country drum called the Geta Beraya (a drum with a knot)

Animal Band Good Night
Poodle conductor, standing on a dais, raps the baton on the music stand while a donkey bass player, a goat trumpeter & a ? dog percussionist strike up a tune

The Frank Holder Trio
The jazz trio named after the singer and percussionist Frank Holder (b. 1925) used to play nightly at the Gattopardo in James Street. Date: 1966

Regional HQ band at LFB Headquarters, Lambeth
Group photograph of the Regional HQ band with their instruments at London Fire Brigade HQ. The purpose-built bandstand behind the band was incorporated in the original design brief of the Brigades

James Blades Timpanist
James Blades playing kettle drums at the Aldeburgh Festival 1961 Date: 1961

Imogen Holst with James Blades
Imogen Holst and James Blades in Orford Church, early July 1961, with the handbells used in Brittens Noyes Fludde Date: 1961

James Blades Score for Beggars Opera
The percussion part sketch for Act II of The Beggars Opera (not in Brittens hand, nor that of Imogen Holst). Almost certainly notes by James Blades. Date: 1963

James Blades teaching Suffolk Schoolchildrens Orchestra
James Blades helping two members of the Suffolk Schoolchildrens orchestra in rehearsal for Noyes Fludde at Orford Church on 5 July 1962 Date: 1961

James Blades with Paul Sacher
James Blades, percussionist, talking with Paul Sacher, conductor, during a rehearsal of the English Chamber Orchestra for the Aldeburgh Festival concert in the Jubilee Hall on 2 July 1961 Date: 1961

James Blades in rehearsal, Aldeburgh Festival
James Blades in rehearsal by the font of Aldeburgh Parish Church, Aldeburgh Festival Choral and Orchestral Concert, 24 June 1962 Date: 1962

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