It’s the concert with the most Christmas tunes!
Come and enjoy The Spirit of Christmas at Trinity Church Gosforth on Saturday December 13 at 7pm.
Bede Chorus & Bede Wind conducted by Ernest Young with accompanist Peter Waugh.
Buy your ticket online here 
https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bede-wind/t-mjonema
Alternatively you can pay at the door on the night.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Cullercoats Methodist Church
Our autumn concert schedule has been announced, with performances both sides of the Tyne.
The first concert is at Cullercoats Methodist Church in North Tyneside on Saturday September 27. It starts at 7pm and tickets costing £10 can be obtained from the church, at the door on the night or by emailing hello@bedewind.com.
We are playing the following weekend at St Hilda’s Church in South Shields, on Saturday October 4 at 7pm. Tickets costing £8 can again be obtained from the church, at the door on the night or by emailing hello@bedewind.com.
Our Christmas concert follows on Saturday December 13 at Trinity Church, Gosforth.
We look forward to seeing you at one of these performances!
Ypres, in West Flanders, Belgium
Bede Wind is conducting a tour of Belgium at the end of this month, performing concerts at Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk in De Panne and Wapenplein Square in Ostend.
Quite aptly, following last week’s 80th anniversary of VE Day, we will also play at the Last Post at Menin Gate, Ypres – the city the band will be based at for the week. Excursions will include visits to the Tyne Cot Cemetery and Passchendale Museum.
Our 34-strong party leaves on Monday May 26 and returns on Friday May 30.
For some members of the band, including Conductor Ernest Young, it will be a return to the West Flanders province after 35 years – in 1990 they accompanied Springfield School Band from Jarrow on a tour which also took in Ostend and Bruges.
We’re very much looking forward to our trip, which has been organised by Rayburn Tours. Watch out for photos on our Facebook page!
Bede Wind is joining the national celebration of 80 years of peace since the end of World War Two in Europe.
We will be performing at Whitburn Parish Church – a venue very familiar to us – on the evening of Thursday May 8.
Two weeks later the band will be heading off on a tour of Belgium, which will include trips to Passchendaele and the Tyne Cot Cemetery. Our base is Ypres, so we will visit a number of locations synonymous with World War One.
We return from Belgium to play at South Shields Amphitheatre on Sunday June 15.
From a sunrise in Osaka to the American Civil War, we have a unique global playlist in this concert – with tunes from Japan, Korea, Russia, North and South America and our home nations.
Join us for a musical journey from the Midwest to the Far East at Trinity Church, Gosforth, on Saturday March 8 at 7pm. Tickets costing £10 can be purchased online here:
Tickets have just gone on sale online for our annual Christmas concert.
‘Spirit of Christmas’, billed as the concert with the most Christmas tunes, is being held at Trinity Church, Gosforth, on Saturday December 14 at 7pm and will feature Bede Wind and Bede Chorus.
The Conductor is as always Ernest Young and the Accompanist is Peter Waugh. Admission cost is £10 (adults) and £5 (children).
You can purchase your ticket online here or from Bede Wind or Bede Chorus members, or pay at the door on the night.
Our autumn programme starts with our 26th Prom at Whitburn Parish Church on Friday October 4 at 7.30pm.
We have been invited to take part in a weekend festival of music at Doxford Hall on Friday November 1, where we will be entertaining guests at the luxury Northumberland hotel and spa during dinner.
The festival also features Northumberland Pipes and Fiddle with Andy and Margaret Watchorn and Janet Bennet & the Harpsichord!
Our Christmas concert is at 7pm on Saturday December 14 at Trinity Methodist Church in Gosforth, one of our favourite venues.
Our 2023 Christmas concert at Trinity
We hope to see you at one of our autumn concerts – for ticket enquiries please email hello@bedewind.com.
Bede Wind will be celebrating its 35th anniversary with a special concert in an iconic Victorian venue later this month.
We will be performing at The Exchange 1856 in North Shields’ cultural quarter at 7.30pm on Saturday June 22 – our first time at this hugely popular music/theatre events and food destination.
A varied programme of both regional favourites and international standards will include guest soloist soprano Bibi Heal.
Soprano Bibi Heal
Originally based in Springfield School in Jarrow, Bede Wind was formed in 1989 to allow pupils of the school to continue playing after leaving. It now attracts musicians from all across the north east of England.
We have performed at indoor and outdoor venues both home and abroad over the past three decades, including tours in the US and Europe.
Bede Wind is the resident wind band of The Glasshouse International Centre for Music on Gateshead Quayside. We rehearse downstairs in the Music Education Centre most Fridays (during school term time) from 7.30pm to 9pm.
Tickets for the June 22 concert can be purchased online here costing £10 (£9 concessions).
Erica Niel outside of a building destroyed by a missile strike in Okhtyrka, Ukraine
Bede Wind is holding a concert next month to raise funds for an international humanitarian agency supporting people in war-torn Ukraine.
We will be performing at Trinity Church, Gosforth, to support the work of Concern Worldwide which is operating in nine areas of the country.
The charity’s programme is focused on emergency response in locations close to the front line or with international borders with Russia.
This includes cash assistance for households to meet their very basic needs, such as food, health services and medicine, water and sanitation provision and shelter support during winter.
Where cash is not possible in very remote areas, food and hygiene items are provided.
Concern Worldwide also delivers psychosocial support to children and adults focusing on dealing with stressful and traumatic events they have experienced.
The idea for the charity concert came as the result of a 45-year friendship between Colin Niel and Ernest Young who both worked for South Tyneside Music Service before retiring.
Colin is a trombonist at Bede Wind, which Ernest conducts, and his daughter Erica Niel works for Concern Worldwide in Ukraine.
Ernest Young and Colin Niel at The Glasshouse
Erica, Head of Programmes with the charity, said: “On behalf of Concern Worldwide I would like to thank Bede Wind for arranging this concert in support of the Ukraine response. The smallest amount of support can have the biggest impact on those families that continue to suffer from the worst consequences of the war.
“Two years after the full-scale invasion it is important that we do not forget about the people of Ukraine and with your help Concern will be able to continue to give a helping hand to those families who need it the most.”
Erica Niel, Head of Programmes for Concern Worldwide in Ukraine
More than 120,000 Ukrainian refugees came to the UK under the Homes for Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme following the invasion two years ago this weekend, including 2,360 who settled in the North-East.
Bede Wind, which is based at The Glasshouse International Centre for Music in Gateshead, was formed by Ernest Young in 1989 and is celebrating its 35th anniversary this year.
Concert for Kyiv, which will feature a light programme of popular music, is on Friday March 8, starting at 7.15pm. Tickets costing £8 for adults (free for under-16s) can be purchased online at https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/bede-wind/t-jzmnylj or on the door.
A feature on Erica Niel’s work in Ukraine by Good Housekeeping can be found here: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/lifestyle/a46786343/voices-from-ukraine-erica-concern-worldwide/
Tickets have just gone on sale online for our annual Christmas concert.
‘Spirit of Christmas’, billed as the concert with the most Christmas tunes, is being held at Trinity Church, Gosforth, on Saturday December 16 at 7pm and will feature Bede Wind and Bede Chorus.
The Conductor is as always Ernest Young and the Accompanist is Peter Waugh. Admission cost is £8 (adults) and £4 (children).
You can purchase your ticket online here or from Bede Wind or Bede Chorus members, or pay at the door on the night.
Bede Wind 