The Deal and Walmer Handelian Society is pleased to have been asked to take part in this year's Deal Music & Arts Festival. Together with the Betteshanger Colliery Welfare Band, we will be presenting a lively programme including brass band music and popular choruses.

Founded in 1932, Betteshanger Brass has been central in the lives of its members and local audiences through world war and immense industrial change. Their concert with the Handelians, founded in 1946, brings together two much-loved local institutions.

We will be performing on the last day of the festival (14th July) @ 2.00pm at Betteshanger Sports and Social Club, Welfare Sports Ground, Cavell Square, Deal CT14 9HR

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Tickets are FREE. All tickets are unreserved and doors open before each event approximately 30 minutes before the show starts.

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The Deal and Walmer Handelian Society was established in 1946 by three co-founders: Dr James S Hall, the well-known Handelian scholar and Lifeboat surgeon, his wife Cynthia, and Ernest Stride who was Keyboard Professor at the Royal Marines School of Music in Deal.

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