Nicki Moss – 3rd Cornet

February 2024 – Present

Nicki started playing cornet at 7 years old with North Reddish Junior School and stayed on with them after leaving the school to help the younger children coming through. At 14 Nicki joined Gorton Silver Band on 2nd cornet and stayed for around four years.

Nicki then joined Ashton Under Lyne on 1st horn and progressed to solo horn. When Ashton folded she joined Burnage Band on cornet and switched to 1st horn, sitting next to our very own Claire Byrom. Nicki then joined the newly re-formed Reddish Prize Band on solo cornet where she stayed for many years.

After four years of ‘retirement’ Nicki joined Stockport Silver Band, alternating between solo cornet and solo horn, reunited with Claire Byrom. Despite once again retiring, Nicki continued to turn out with Stockport once a year for Whit Friday.

In 2022 Nicki became the MD of Stockport Silver Band. It was then that she realised how much she missed playing and couldn’t resist when the opportunity came to join Flixton.

Nicki’s most memorable banding moment:

Pontins 1991 – didn’t play at the contest but the 72-hour ‘party’ was memorable