As we enter our short summer break this week we say goodbye to a couple of our stalwarts and invite applications to fill their seats. We congratulate our (now ex-) Solo Euphonium player, Richard Bond, who has moved onwards and upwards to join Wingates in the Championship Section. This is a great success story for our Flixton Community Band. Richard … [Read more...]
Summer break
After next week the band will take a short summer break from rehearsals. We will return to a busy autumn schedule with a full range of activity including Bavarian oompah nights, traditional concerts and contests. We thank all our supporters and look forward to seeing you again very soon. … [Read more...]
Another wet one!
On Sunday the band returned to defend the title we won last year at the Blackburn & Darwen March & Hymn Contest. We were the last band on with our performance of Deep Harmony and Ravenswood. Last year we were caught in a cloud burst. This year at least it was only light showers. We were unable to repeat our overall win of last year but came … [Read more...]
Whit Friday success
The rain just about held off and the band thoroughly enjoyed an afternoon and evening entertaining the crowds and impressing the adjudicators across Saddleworth. We competed at 6 venues - just enough to be included in the overall placings that are determined by pooling each band's best six results. We were the second placed band in our section at five of … [Read more...]
Busy week
The band enjoyed our annual day out at Prestwich Clough on Sunday. The sun was out and we attracted a good-sized audience inside the marquee as well as those standing outside to listen. This week we'll be out on Saddleworth for the Whit Friday march contests. Hopefully we'll entertain the crowds with this year's chosen street march and then impress the … [Read more...]
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Adie Smith is our Musical Director.