Photograph courtesy of Felicity Blowhorn, Unfortunately the flash did not go off! 2009
As The Chinewrde Marching Band’s newest member, Felicity Blowhorn is also it’s youngest. And despite her unusually broad shoulders and enlarged Adam’s apple, the 19 year old trombone player is keenly defining herself as the group’s 21st century pinup. In April she quite literally attempted to wrestle this mantle from the veteran Annie Greenberg when the two fell out over a rare and relatively in tune note. All feuds aside, Felicity has certainly turned a few heads in her short time on board and continues to attract a growing crowd of bald forty-something’s to the Band’s concerts.
However, our trombonist with the mostest is no stranger to the limelight. In 2009 she gave an untelevised performance at a Britain’s Got Talent audition in front of thousands and received the surprise of her life when Ant or Dec accidently touched her instrument. This brush from fame has given her an appetite to pursue her childhood dream of forming an all-brass marching girl band – a challenge for which she says she has the legs. You most definitely do Felicity.
Excerpt taken from Godfrey Yammertein's 'A profile of a Great British Marching Band', published March 2011
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