Many thanks to all of you who supported us last year. This is especially important over the Christmas period, when the band engages with the local community through Christmas concerts and takes to the streets to play carols. The good news is that the coffers are healthy and we can look forward to another busy year of banding. This year we have even more … [Read more...]

Our concerts this Christmas have been an enormous success. We joined the Flixton Community Band at St Clement's Church on Friday 2nd December. Both bands received very positive feedback and the soloists in particular sounded fantastic in the large church acoustic. On Saturday 10th we played to a packed Larkhill Centre in Timperley despite the competing … [Read more...]

This Sunday the band will perform hymns before and during the service of Remembrance at the Stretford Cenotaph. Afterwards we will return to Flixton for a very welcome hotpot provided by the Flixton Ex-Servicemen's Association at the John Alker Club. The band will then give a short free concert from 1pm for everyone who has attended morning services or … [Read more...]

The band has said a sad goodbye to our long-serving cornet player and band librarian, Soo Rose Cook. For a long time Soo has been instrumental to the running of the band and showed commitment 'beyond the call' by taking on percussion duties when temporarily unable to play cornet. Soo has now decided to pursue her cornet playing at Besses o' the Barn. She … [Read more...]