Middleton Band

Lou has been involved with the band for 9 years but has been playing for 22 years altogether.

She joined Middleton Band on the front row and stayed there for a year before moving onto the sop seat 8 years ago.

Before she came to Middleton, Lou played trumpet for the Oldham Music Centre Swing Band for 10 years running.

The highlights of Lou's career were playing at the national finals in 2002 and 2007.

Originally from the Isle of Man Jamie started playing cornet with Douglas Town Band in 1999. In 2005 he moved to Manchester to study and it was during this time that he became involved with Middleton Band.

Jamie joined the band on 2nd cornet until 2008 when he moved to Rep.

Since joining the band Jamie has taken on the responsibility of Librarian. He also decided to get the website up and running again. Now he just needs to make sure that he keeps it up to date!

The highlights of Jamie's career were playing at the National Finals in 2002 with Douglas Town Band and in 2007 with Middleton Band.

Hannah has been in the banding world for nearly 3 years. She started playing just over 3 years ago and joined Middleton Band in the new year 2009 on 2nd cornet. Hannah has only been in one other band, Denton Brass. She played on 3rd cornet and rep before moving onto 3rd man down. She also played her first solo there. Hannah also conducted and taught the training band at Denton Brass too.

Hannah took her Grade 2 cornet exam in 2007 passing it with distintion. She then took a big jump to do her Grade 5 exam in the summer of 2008 passing that too with distintion. She hopefully wants to do her Grade7 this summer 2009.

Hannah also plays in her school brass band at Blue Coat and also plays in their Jazz orchestra and Concert Band.