Christmas was kick-started for anyone lucky enough to have a ticket for the sell-out Michelmersh Silver Band Christmas Shows in the Plaza Theatre last week.
The enthusiastic audiences were treated to a show packed full of comedy, Christmas music and fun.
In the first half the audiences enjoyed entertaining solos by Jan Boler (Cornet), Paul Griffiths (euphonium) and Paul Streather (xylophone) before enthusiastically joining in to sing carols.
The ever-popular compere Mark Ponsford introduced the programme themed around Mr Scrooge, played by bass trombone player Alex Newman, attempting to ban Christmas in Romsey this year.
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Scrooge’s grumpy solo of Bah Humbug by Jonathan Bates prompted a string of Christmas classics to raise Christmas cheer and ‘save’ the festivities, including White Christmas, Here Comes Santa Claus and even a trip to a German Bierkeller for a drinking song.
Baritone player Adam Smith was backed by a trio of cornet players, dubbed the Cornettini Sisters, to perform an arrangement of Michael Bublé’s Jingle Bells.
With the audience joining in a music hall-style Twelve Days of Christmas led by Ed ‘Super Hans’ March, Father Christmas appeared and Romsey’s Christmas was saved.
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