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known first as the Alumni Band and then as the Nick Care Big Band. These continued to perform annual concerts at the Court
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brass competition trophy. From around 1980 he also played in Brass Tacks, alongside Kathy
Gifford, who became a fellow-teacher and Care's wife. Care qualified as a teacher in the early 1980s, spent 18 months teaching in Hampshire, and then took a position at the Aylesbury Music Centre. He began
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classes as an Essex Music Scholar, taking Grade 8 and a Diploma in Trumpet, and from 1970 to 1978 studied for BA Hons. Music at the
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