The turnout of members from the Invermay Boys Bandwith  their wartime festive carols should ensure it will be standing room only inside the walls of the Holy Trinity Anglican Church. 

The brass band that started on the north side of the Tamar River has, of course, evolved into the City of Launceston RSL band following names changes that included the Invermay Silver Band and Northern Suburbs Silver Band.

‘‘With all bands, we would have celebrated with something at Christmas every year,’’ bands leader Kim Brundle-Lawrence said.

‘‘We’ve already had a couple of the original band members that joined the band 75 years ago come along and listen.’’

The band today, decked out in unmistakable red, is not just a boys band or of one gender.

Men and women, fathers and sons, brothers and sisters and uncles, aunties and cousins – aged from 11 to 75 – give the musical act a real feeling of family and community.

And the sounds of cornets, tender horns, flugel horns, trombones, baritones, percussion drums and basses at the back is as inclusive as the people who flock to it each year.

AT A GLANCE

WHO: The City of Launceston RSL Band with organist Craig Stenton and the Railway Silver Band.

WHERE: Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Launceston.

WHEN: Sunday, December 13, from 2pm.

COST: Adults $25, seniors $15, juniors $5.