The Deepings school sax group (stax of sax) had been asked to play at the Deepings Carnival today. This would have been our first proper gig as entertainment rather than background music. We would have been on the back of a large lorry being used as a stage.
The problems started when 2 of our group went on study leave so were not available to play, this meant that we only had four pieces we could do and we needed 20 minutes worth. The second problem was that our tenor player become pretty poorly during the week and he was definitely not fit to play today. So we had to ring the organisers and pull out of the event. This was a real shame as we had worked hard for this.
As of September we will have no Bari player and maybe no sop player, so I will play Bari (looking forward to it) and the top parts will be put onto alto. We will be on the look out for any sax players at school that are keen and we will regroup and be ready for next years carnival in plenty of time.
Hopefully our tenor player feels better soon and we cn get back to doing what we do best, making good music.
Dave Plummer Saxophonist 
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