The cameras were rolling at the Cranbourne Lions Concert Band on Tuesday night. By Glen Atwell
LIGHTS, camera, action!
A family from the United Kingdom touched down in Melbourne at 7am on Tuesday morning and was belting out tunes with the Cranbourne Lions Concert Band the very next day.
It was all for a BBC television program ‘Wanted Down Under’.
The program sends British families thinking of moving to Australia to the down under land to introduce them to the Aussie lifestyle and culture.
Shropshire family Antony Evans, his wife Alex, and their twin daughters, are keen to relocate to Australia, and will spend a week in Cranbourne investigating property and job opportunities, and social activities.
Antony and Alex are music teachers in their homeland, and their connection to Cranbourne was Antony’s brother Mick.
Mick is the secretary of the Cranbourne Lions, and arranged for Antony and Alex to participate in a rehearsal with the 35-piece Cranbourne Lions Concert Band. The BBC television crew was on hand to film the session and spent an hour ensuring they left with adequate footage.
Cranbourne Lions Concert Band events organiser Miranda Mayle said the entire group enjoyed the experience.
“Antony played the French horn and his wife Alex played the flute. They are both very good musicians,” she said.
The band spent the night rehearsing ‘Dreaming’, a piece written by Antony, who back home is an international composer, the regional director of music for Army Cadets and the band master of the West Midlands Regiment military band.
The Cranbourne Lions Concert Band is a community band and rehearses Tuesday nights at The Factory – Rehearsal Centre for the Arts on Berwick-Cranbourne Road.
Visit the BBC website, www.bbc.co.uk and search ‘Wanted Down Under’ to view previous episodes of the series.
