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An Evening at the Movies

Join us for an early evening ‘at the movies’ concert where we will be providing an evenings entertainment with a flavour of the movies. Entertainment will be provided during the evening by both the senior Middleton band under Musical director Kevin Gibbs and Middleton Youth Band under musical director Louise Crane. As […]

2nd Section North West Area Champions

Champions! On Sunday 26th February 2018, Middleton Band were crowned 2nd section champions after traveling to the Winter Gardens in Blackpool to take part in the North West Area Brass Band Championships. We are delighted to report that the band came first, winning the second section playing Ex Terra Lucem By […]

Training Band Musical Director Vacancy

  Due to work commitments, we have a vacancy for a musical director for our recently formed training band to start from February or as soon as possible. Rehearsals are Mondays 5.45 -6.45pm and the first Saturday of the month 10 -11am at St Stephen’s Church Hall, High Street, Middleton, M24 6DX

New Uniforms

As part of our 140th celebrations in 2016, we began the process of updating our image. Or stage jackets were over 20 years old and in desperate need of repair and replacement and our walking out and outdoor jackets were very worn and dated too. We decided to bring the band […]

Annual Awards 2017

This year our annual awards were made at our Christmas Friends of Middleton band concert, held at St Stephen’s, Middleton on Sunday 3rd December Senior Band Three awards were made to the senior band this year. Players’ Player – Jonathan Earl Jonny was voted by band members to be the […]

Seasons Greetings – Christmas events

Seasons greetings from Middleton Band! We have a busy festive season ahead of us this year with a range of engagements and events over the coming months. You can join us for all your festive favorites at a range of our  upcoming functions, all of which can also be found […]

Kevin Gibbs takes the reins

Middleton Band are delighted to announce that Kevin Gibbs has taken over the reins as Musical Director. Kevin is no stranger to the band, having worked with us earlier in the year to prepare us for the Area contest. He recently agreed to help us out again, this time taking […]

Middleton launch new training band

Middleton Band is delighted to announce the expansion of their youth band provision with the launch of their all new training band for beginner brass players. The launch begins with an open day on 9th September, 11.00am- 12.30pm at our band room at St Stephen’s Church Hall, where prospective new members […]