City of Ballarat Municipal Brass Band
Juliana ADDISON (Wendouree) (11:33): Congratulations to the Ballarat city brass band on a successful year. Well done to president Troy Cheesman, the executive and the committee. It was great to attend their AGM and enjoy the very polished performance of some of my favourite hits, including Funkytown, Birdland, the James Bond theme and Go West. I was very impressed with the talent development band. Congratulations to Bronwyn Akers for the Ken Pattie most improved player award, Michelle Farrington for the band player of the year award and young player of the year Matthew Farrington for the Ron Farrington memorial award, named after his grandfather. I would also like to recognise Robert Pattie for 70 years of service to the Ballarat city brass band and other service awards recipients Joshua Schmidtke, Sarah Schmidtke, Aliyah Tapster, Henry van der Linden and Faith Van Gaans. I wish musical director Dennis Stevenson and the band all the best for the 2025 nationals. Let us bring it home for Ballarat.