As the band rehearses for the upcoming Fleetwood Contest on 26th April, our ever-busy Management Team is also making arrangements for our trip to the French Open in June. We will be kept busy for our brief visit to Amboise. In addition to the contest stage performance there is a street march and contest march to perform, in the style of the Whit Friday … [Read more...]
Areas 2026
The band competed at the Blackpool Winter Gardens yesterday in the First Section of the NW Brass Band Championships. We performed our interpretation of Andrew Wainwright's 'Variations on Was Lebet'. The adjudicators found much to admire and placed us 8th overall, our best result in several years. Our congratulations to the winners, Haydock, and the … [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...]
Whit Friday success
Last week the band took part in the annual Whit Friday contests across Saddleworth. We marched down to an arrangement of "Don't you want me, baby" and performed O.R.B. as our contest march. It was an entertaining afternoon and evening. Great to be joined on the march by members of our Community Band and to see our now annual visitors from the … [Read more...]
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Adie Smith is our Musical Director.