
The Big Blast
The Big Blast is returning for 2023!
Weds 22 February to Thurs 23 February 2023
including a performance in Blackfriars Priory in Gloucester.

The Big Blast is back!
TBB 2023
Following the success of our Big String project, the Big Blast was formed two years ago. Last year, forty-four young players aged from 5 to 18, from grade 1 to post grade 8 worked together for two days on Ennio Morricone’s Once Upon a Fist Full of Good and Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, both arranged for us by Paul Denegri.
This year the project will take place on 22-23 February 2023 based at Dean Close School for the first day and then moving to Blackfriars Priory for the second day where we will perform to family, friends andothers. The children are supported by tutors from Gloucestershire Academy of Music, The Flowers Band and Make Music Gloucestershire, led by conductor Hannah Opstad.
To book please click HERE
'Once Upon a Fist Full of Good' by Ennio Morricone
By Ennio Morricone, arranged by Paul Denegri, filmed at Blackfriars Priory.
'Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass'
By Ennio Morricone, also arranged by Paul Denegri, Morricone's piece was performed by 44 young players.