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Highlights:

St Mark's Square - Venice carnival,
Bridgewater Hall - Manchester,
Thames Festival,
WOMAD, UK
Festival de la Merce - Barcelona,
Sziget Festival - Budapest,
London Mela, Roskilde Festival - Denmark,
Kaustinen Festival - Finland,
Rudolstadt festival - Germany,
Tulip festival - Canada,
Druga Godba festival -Slovenia,
Ignite! - Olympic Stadium, Sydney

The Band introduce themselves:

Mark Allan -
Baritone sax/Band management

Mark Allan

Mark Allan started off playing tenor sax with the Fallout Marching Band in the 80's, playing on peace and anti-nuclear demos and harassing Ronald Reagan around Europe. The band got some money from the GLC (thank you Ken!) bought a baritone sax, and that was the beginning of a love story with low grunty noises. Together with Will and Nick of the BBB he formed the professional street band Crocodile Style in the late 80's, and also spent 10 years playing with and administrating the unfeasibly large (18-23 piece) left wing big band The Happy End, sharing the baritone section with Sarha Moore, also now in the BBB.

Mark was instrumental in forming the Bollywood Brass Band in 1992 and has managed the band ever since. These days, as well as playing baritone sax, he operates video and mixes sound for their live gigs.