About Scarborough Spa Orchestra
The UK's only remaining professional seaside orchestra
Scarborough Spa Orchestra Description
For many years, most seaside resorts had a resident summer season orchestra. Now there is only one left in the entire UK: The Legendary Scarborough Spa Orchestra.
Every week during an extended summer season, the Spa Orchestra plays no fewer than nine concerts - mornings from Monday to Friday, and Monday toThursday evenings. Every programme is different, and the Orchestra's repertoire is so vast that pieces are rarely repeated within five weeks.
Weather permitting, morning concerts are held in the idyllic setting of the Sun Court Enclosure, with the sea as the backdrop, and music on the lighter, brighter side. Evening performances are presented in the concert hall, with guest vocalists and specially themed gala concerts on Thursday evenings.
No orchestra in the land plays such a wide and varied repertoire of music: waltzes, marches, film and TV themes, selections from the shows, novelty items - the very best in light music together with popular and well-loved classics.
Summer audiences travel from all over the UK (and even from Germany and the USA) just to experience this unique professional orchestra. They have made frequent radio and tv appearances, and plans are already in hand for some very special events to celebrate the Orchestra's Centenary Year in 2012.
If you want to know what all the fuss is about, visit the Orchestra at home on the Spa for some of the best musical entertainment around.