Six years ago, the band recorded a performance of Gresford, The Miners' Hymn, for an exhibition at the nearby National Coal Mining Museum for England called The Pit At The End Of The Road. We've revisited this recording here with some photos taken at the time and some more recent ones for you to enjoy, especially […]
This festive season has been a particularly poignant one for the band as it marks the departure from conducting duties of Val Hope. Val announced her intention to stop being at the front of the band a while ago, with the desire to refocus on playing in the band from January 2018. When Val took […]
The band performed at the 2015 Middlestown and Overton Gala yesterday, playing for two half hour segments. The band played a selection of music including A Swinging Safari, Meditation and Men Of Harlech. As well as this, a short video was made by our cornet player Karen’s sister during an arrangement of ABBA’s Thank […]
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 […]
