The forecast is looking great - warm and dry - for Sunday. We will be performing two 45-minute sessions in St Mary's Flower Park as part of the annual Prestwich Clough celebrations. Our programmes start at 1:40 and 3:25. It would be lovely to see you there. … [Read more...]
Tyldesley concert
The band was delighted to attend the parish church of St George in Tyldesley last night for our first concert at this venue. The varied programme began with the Beatles and ended with West Side Story, taking in Crown Imperial, The Vicar of Dibley and Henry V among many others along the way. Our soloists on the night excelled with renditions of Whirlwind, … [Read more...]
New Members
The band is delighted to welcome Ian Wagdin and Pete Williams. Ian joined on BBb bass to help us out at the NW Area contest in February and has been persuaded to stay on, seemingly by the amount of cake on offer! Pete responded to our recent advert for a 2nd trombone. He's not a completely new face, having previously helped us out at one-off … [Read more...]
Areas success
The band enjoyed a great day out in Blackpool. The 'Areas' made a very welcome return after the pandemic break and it was a great chance to meet the banding community and catch up. We were pleased with our performance. The adjudicators clearly enjoyed it too with comments such as "you pushed the boundaries of style and reading to the limits. Quite … [Read more...]
All systems go
We now have our line-up completed for the Areas and have been preparing with full band and sectional rehearsals in the run-up to the contest in Blackpool on the 27th of this month. If you'd like to hear what we are making of Gilbert Vinter's classic test-piece, Spectrum, please do come along to our open rehearsal in Flixton on the Thursday before. See our … [Read more...]
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Adie Smith is our Musical Director.