SBHS hosts brass ban tattoo
The Springs Boys' High School (SBHS) hosted its first Brass Band Tattoo fund-raising event at the Springs Rugby Club on Saturday.
The activities started at 6pm with Boys’ High’s own percussion marching band performing first.
Band master Brian Boucher says they plan on making this an annual event.
The purpose of the tattoo is to raise much-needed funds to buy new instruments.
“Some of the instruments are over 40 years old and we desperately need new ones,” he says.
Brian works hard to get more students involved and is proud to announce that since 1998, the band has won 11 national titles.
He says most of the boys have no musical experience when they join the band, but within six months they are pros.
During the six months the boys are taught how to read music, play an instrument and to march.
“The most popular instruments are the trumpet and drums,” says Brian.
SBHS’s marching band came second at the South African Marching Band and Concert Orchestra Association‘s (Samba) national competition held in Durbanville last year.
The school’s brass band was the overall winners in the competition.
The drum majorettes from Laerskool Rynfield entertained the crowd with all their dance moves.
Other bands present on the day were the Hoërkool Oosterlig Marching Band and the Benoni High Pipe Band.
Brian says the Springs Boys’ Brass Band boys practise after hours and are all dedicated band members.
