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Angela Houghton playing 'Misty'

East Lancashire Railway 1940’s Wartime Weekend

Middleton Band have been very busy this weekend supporting the East Lancashire Railway’s 1940’s ‘Wartime’ weekend. We began our weekend of 40’s fun with a Saturday concert by the youth band on East Lancashire Railway’s  Bolton St Station platform in Bury. The youth band played a variety of 1940’s repertoire […]

Rochdale Mayor Making Ceremony May 2011

The band were invited to play as Councillor Alan Godson was sworn in as the new Mayor of Rochdale at the Mayor Making Ceremony at Rochdale Town Hall this evening. Former Mayor and Mayoresses, MPs, Councillors and invited guests watched as last year’s Mayor Zulfiqar Ali handed over the chains of office […]

John Retires

At our recent AGM, former chairman John Cooney announced his wish to retire from the committee and from active duty in the percussion section. John who has been a mainstay of  the band for many years, has decided to take a back seat from main band but is still going […]

Tameside Open

The Results for the Second Section are in….. Tyldesley (Robert Taylor) – 192 Mossley (Duncan Byers) – 191 Uppermill (Alan Widdop) – 189 Dobcross Silver (Grenville Moore) – 188 Middleton (Alan Lawton) – 186 Old Hall (John North) – 185 Greenalls (Karl Stott) – 184 Hoover (Bolton) (Trevor Halliwell) – […]

New Website!

Welcome to MiddletonBand.com we hope you like our brand new site.   Let us know if you find this website easier to navigate than our previous one. Here you can find all the information about the from the latest news to historical information and all our results since the band was formed. […]

Band and Keith

‘Tis the Season – In the Press!

The band appeared in the Middleton Guardian this week, the picture shows MD Matt Stringer being presented with the band’s newest CD ‘Tis the Season by Keith Farrington of Music House Productions who recorded the disc. See the full article here Middleton Gardian  

Tis the Season Album Art

‘Tis The Season CD

Middleton Band Release their latest CD!     Tis the Season Album Art Track Listing:

The back row Bugle corp!

Blackrod: St Katharine’s Church

The band had a ball in Blackrod on the 11th September, after being invited to play a last night of the proms concert in St Katherine’s Church. The band played a varied programme including soloists Tenor Horn player Angela Houghton playing ‘Misty,’ Post Horn’ists’ Louise Crane and Adam Albinson playing […]