Picnic in the Park offers a musical feast at Littlehampton

Members of Littlehampton Concert Band take a breather during their performance in Antwerp.

The band is hosting a “Picnic in the Park” concert at Caffyns Field, in Beach Road, on Saturday, May 18, at 6.30pm.

Tickets are free and everyone is invited to bring a chair and a picnic and lots of friends to enjoy the music.

Joining the band to mark the milestone of a quarter of a century of making music will be guests, the THS (Littlehampton Academy) Steel Band and the Batala Portsmouth Samba Band.

l Next week’s Gazette will carry a special feature tracing the band’s history from its early days, when it was re-formed in 1988, as the Littlehampton Town Band, about 36 years after its predecessor was literally disbanded.

The revived band was to have led the carnival parade, but quickly found itself out of step with that idea and lost its town council grant.