Another fine concert with Alan Widdop behind the podium In spite of the spectre of the Coronavirus, Whitworth Vale and Healey Band chose to fulfil their concert at Boarshurst Band Club last night. For the dedicated live audience, and several more that watched the live stream, it was a most enjoyable concert.
Read More Whitworth Vale and Healey Band, 16 March 2020: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band ClubJoyous Boarshurst return for Jim Hunter and Co. makes for another captivating programme With the live and streamed audience marked safe from stultifying Sunday night entertainment and rolling news, Stockport Silver Band returned to Boarshurst Band Club with another fantastic concert. A year into their tenure at Kimberley Street Day Centre, Shaw Heath, last night’s […]
Read More Stockport Silver Band: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band Club, 08 March 2020A neat concert with a good mix of old favourites and modern classics Over the last week, the village of Thornton and its neighbouring town has been in the news. That being the small matter of a railway line which saw its last passengers in 1970 and its last freight train in 1999. If successful, […]
Read More Thornton-Cleveleys Brass Band, 02 February 2020: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band ClubAccessible programme and four fabulous solos make for another delightful concert The second concert of Boarshurst Band Club’s 2020 season of Sunday Brass Nights was another joy to behold after Vernon Building Society (Poynton) Brass Band’s performance. Throughout each concert, one of the world’s oldest brass bands have never failed to entertain nor captivate the […]
Read More Vernon Building Society (Poynton) Brass Band, 26 January 2020: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band ClubHow a fundraising concert for the British Heart Foundation ended Boarshurst Band Club’s 2019 season in style In about three years from now, the end-of-year charity concert at Boarshurst Band Club could well be a regular fixture. For the second year running, a scratch band set up for charitable endeavour ended the concert season in […]
Read More Charity Brass ’19, Boarshurst Band Club, 29 December 2019A meaty programme and a pantomime: two hours of fun for all the family For some people, Christmas isn’t Christmas till a big man with a long white beard heads their way. The soundtrack to their Christmas might include Mariah Carey or Peter Graham as well as traditional favourites like Jingle Bells and God Rest […]
Read More Boarshurst Silver Band, 22 December 2019: Here’s How Christmas Concerts Should Be DoneHard working York youth band put on fantastic show Hours before they came to Boarshurst Band Club, the Shepherd Group Youth Band held a concert in Selby Abbey. Courtesy of one of York Pullman’s finest coaches, they were on the M62 motorway whilst yours truly was enjoying his Sunday Dinner.
Read More Shepherd Group Youth Brass: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band Club, 08 December 2019Superb concert with great solo performances and a Christmas set with a difference In the words of their mercurial Musical Director Jonathan Bates, it has been quite a while since Strata Brass Band ever had a concert at Boarshurst Band Club. The last time they performed there, they were probably known as Hoyland Town Band. […]
Read More Strata Brass: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band Club, 01 December 2019Another superb concert from Paul Towle and Co. Was it really thirteen months ago since Paul Towle made his début as Musical Director for St. John’s Band (Mossley)? During his first visit as M.D., the Roughtown band were drafted in at short notice to replace Stalybridge Old Band. Last October’s concert was a cracking one. […]
Read More St. John’s Band (Mossley): Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band Club, 24 November 2019A most entertaining night of brass band music from Christopher Wormald and Co. Last night, Eagley Band made what was their first visit to Boarshurst Band Club since records began. For Christopher Wormald, his previous visit to The Mecca of Brass Banding was with Hoover Bolton band. Apart from a nineteen-year hiatus, he has been […]
Read More Eagley Band: Sunday Brass at the Boarshurst Band Club (17 November 2019)
