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Proms Concert at St Katharine’s, Blackrod, 2012

The band have had a ball playing a proms style concert tonight at St Katharine’s Blackrod. We began our concert with ‘On the Quarterdeck’ then continued with the overture ‘The magic Flute’. Our first soloist Bryce Ford played “My Love is Like a Red Red Rose” perfectly. Bryce Ford plays […]

Middleton Band 2012

Joint concert 2012

On 12th July the Middleton and Middleton Youth Bands joined forces to present a joint concert at St Anne’s Academy. Youth Band at Joint Concert

Open Rehearsal

Middleton Band would like to welcome you to their upcoming open rehearsal of the Butlins test piece, The Frogs (of Aristophanes) By Granville Bantock . The rehearsal will take place on Wednesday 18th January at 7.30pm at  St Anne’s Academy, Hollin Lane, Middleton, M24 6XN. A map can be found here.

Good Luck Carl!

Middleton Band are sad  to announce the departure of Carl Whiteoak as Musical Director of the band.  Carl leaves us to persue his teaching career on the island of Guernsey.  We have enjoyed several months of Carls direction and are very sorry to see him go. We would like to take this opportunity to […]

Santa Specials

Once again the band have been entertaining passengers on the East Lancashire Railway’s Santa Special trains. The band play a selection of carols along the train as Santa delivers presents to the passengers. On Thursday 22nd  December, the BBC were filming aboard the train. We are hoping to make BBC […]