The time has come to book your tickets. Our traditional Christmas concert is a great way to begin the festive season. There will be the usual mix of Christmas music and community carols in the beautiful setting of St Clement's Church. Tickets are available online or on the door. We hope to see you there. … [Read more...]
Remembrance
On Sunday we had the honour of performing hymns for the annual service of Remembrance at the Stretford Cenotaph. Thankfully, the forecast rain held off. As has now become tradition, we returned to Flixton immediately after for a very welcome hotpot at the John Alker Club (Flixton Ex-Servicemen's Association). We performed a short, free concert with a … [Read more...]
Rochdale Contest
The band performed this weekend at the NW Brass Bands Association contest in Rochdale. We performed Peter Graham's composition "The Essence of Time" in a joint Championship/First Section. This was a level of difficulty above our recent test pieces but we came off stage satisfied with our performance. In a strong field, our placing of 11th overall … [Read more...]
Red Admiral Success
The band performed yesterday in the First Section at the Red Admiral Entertainments contest, Chorley. We played a 20-minute set of arrangements of music for stage and screen by Alan Menken. This included pieces from Hercules, The Little Mermaid, Little Shop of Horrors and Aladdin. Both the audience and adjudicators enjoyed our performance. We placed … [Read more...]
20 Years our Principal
At our Summer concert in St Clement's Church, Urmston, we marked Katie's amazing achievement of completing 20 years on principal cornet. Katie joined us in 2004 whilst still at school. She rapidly improved and successfully auditioned for the vacant principal position within her first year with us. The rest, as they say, is history. To mark the … [Read more...]
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Adie Smith is our Musical Director.