Even though it was so appropriate that the march that was played was "Emblem of the Army", it would have equally fitting to have played "Under Two Flags" as the service that Eric Frampton has given the Boscombe Corps over the last fifty years was recognised in our Sunday Morning meeting.

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Over the last few days the Band has been busy recording music for our next CD. It is a follow up to the ‘Sanctuary’ project, released in 2008, which was a survey of the meditation form in the Salvation Army repertoire. This did not mean that all the music was meditational and reflective, as some of the early Salvation Army meditation forms are quite positive and celebratory in character, depending on the song material that was used to form the basis of the music.

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On the 9th June 1984 Boscombe Band under the leadership of Bandmaster Geoff Otter took part in the Bandmaster's Councils Festival at the Royal Albert Hall playing Ray Steadman Allen's The Holy War. The UK Territory's annual musical festival has recently been called the "Gospel Arts Festival" and this year moved to Symphony Hall Birmingham taking a new name - "Symphony Sounds".

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We are saddened to announce that our band's elder statesman Tommy Lynch was Promoted to Glory this evening.

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This week's issue of the Salvationist includes an interview with our own Bandmaster and a full page picture of Howard on the cover. As the issue was so popular that it sold out this morning at the Corps, you can read the article on this website if you missed it!