Bonnie Scotland’s talent for playing the bagpipes had gained her a scholarship to Cameronian College. USA, where it was the tradition to have a piper for ceremonial occasions. One of Bonnie’s duties was to play the pipes in the morning to waken everybody.
Fifteen year old, Jill Baker started a folk group along with her friends, Bill Moss and Don Ellis. They were not doing too well and Jill’s grandmother—a former music-hall star suggested that Jill should borrow the costumes, wigs and the banjo that she had used. When the group appeared at the Fiesta Club there was a near riot. Jill’s handling of the audience aroused the admiration of Al Hunter, a theatrical agent who had known Jill’s Gran when she topped the bill as Banjo Belle. He suggested that she could pretend to be the actual Banjo Belle for more success. Jill only agrees to this, so she can afford to buy house for her grandmother.
Orphan Vicky Mason left England in the year 1894, and went to join her far-travelled elder brother in the Yukon territory of Northern Canada. The Klondike gold rush was at its height, when Vicky disembarked at the port of Skagway, in Alaska.Vicky discovers her brother is missing and during her search for him, she is given a violin with very strange powers by an old prospector.
Belle and Norma Jennings were keen bell ringers. When they moved to the little village of Larkslea, where the bells of St Ethelbert’s had been silent for years; Belle decided to recruit and train a team of young ringers. They practised hard and improved quickly.
In the year 1880, Prudence Proctor and her brother Philip, who were orphans, became homeless after the death of their guardian. An uncle and his wife, Sir Bertram and Lady Sylvia Thornber, offered them a home. Prudence hoped for a musical career, but at Thornber Hall, they were forced to work as servants. Prudence was ordered to travel to London with a violinist, Professor Florenzo. as his accompanist on a tour of the Music Halls. Prudence was very worried about Philip, who had been sent to work with a bullying shepherd.
Nola Norton discovers being a pop star doesn’t always bring happiness.
When Andy Ellis was taken ill and told not to play his cornet for three months, his twin sister, Kate, secretly took his place in the Barfield Boys’ Brass Band. Although Andy was now well again, and fit to rejoin the band, Kate was continuing for the time being because of preparations for a competition.
Topsy Turner’s beat group composed of elderly teachers at stuffy old Denewood Academy of music, is having troubles. Topsy has been sacked from her holiday job at the Academy and the teachers of the group have been dismissed for playing beat music that is forbidden. But there may be hope yet as the recording the group made is gaining some positive attention.
