A few new players have joined the band recently. We welcome them all. Firstly, Pete Rhodes joins us again as Principal Cornet player. We know he has a brilliantly strong sound and will lead our fabulous cornet section fantastically. As well as Pete, we welcome Lynda Auty to our back row cornets. Lynda has been […]
This video was originally posted on YouTube by enujllah. As previously posted, we performed at the Unison AGM at Huddersfield Town Hall recently. One of the highlights was this performance of what is often referred to as The Miner’s Hymn – named after the 1934 Gresford Pit Disaster in which 266 men and boys lost […]
Earlier this week, the band performed for the Annual General Meeting of Unison’s Kirklees branch, held at Huddersfield Town Hall. The meeting was attended by members of the NUM who were commemorating thirty years since the beginning of the 1984/85 miners’ strike. UPDATE: 14th April 2014, 21 new photos added. Thanks to the Kirklees Unison […]
We would like to welcome John Haston to our band, filling our Second Trombone position. John has just moved to Mirfield and discovered the band via a local butcher who told him about our existence – John then contacted our Facebook page and arranged to visit us. We still have other vacancies, as the side […]
Details of our Wednesday night training band have now been added to the menu at the top of the site (or you can click here). Their rehearsals also appear on our calendar too. As well as this, more work has been done on our player profile pages. Quite a lot of our members now have […]
As the band enters its 160th year, we would like to wish all our friends, followers, members and supporters a Happy and Prosperous New Year. We look forward to seeing you all at some point in the year!
To all our friends, followers, supporters and members, we would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. To celebrate, here are some photographic highlights from the festive season.
