3rd Place at NEMBBA

Tue 07 Nov 2023

The band is pleased with a solid third place result at the NEMBBA contest this past weekend, with a performance of the difficult but exciting work The Essence of Time by Peter Graham. A nice warm up for test piece playing before the Christmas season hits us and then soon in to rehearsals for the Area Contest in February!

Greatest Free Show On Earth

Thu 06 Jul 2023

The band had a fantastic night at the Whit Friday Contests playing Mephistopheles.

We ended up with 3 best First Section prizes and 2 runner up awards, with some high overall finishes at the 3 contests we did in Saddleworth (a 5th, 6th and 10th - finishing ahead of some notable names including the likes of Fairies, Tredegar and Grimethorpe!).

7 Contests were also completed in Tameside on what was a busy and very well supported evening in the sunshine.

Another 4th Place in the Regionals!

Tue 07 Mar 2023

Consistency is the key to a good brass band, and with another 4th place in the 1st section Regional Contest in Blackpool at the end of February, it shows that the band is one of the finest first section bands in the North West (if not the country).

Many thanks to out Musical Director Tony Wyatt for guiding the band through Phil Lawrence's 'A Day In The Life Of A Knight', with such aplomb, and well done to all the players for once again stepping up to the mark and showing what a fine ensemble Silk Brass is.

Whit Friday 1st Section Champions!

Thu 30 Jun 2022

A fantastic evening of performances led to Silk Brass gaining a number of awards in both the Tameside and Saddleworth Whit Friday March contests.

It was great to have Whit Friday back in our diary after 3 years away due to the pandemic, and the band was on great form with 10 contests (2 in Saddleworth and 8 in Tameside) over the evening.

Prizes included:

Heyrod: 2nd place (and best 1st section band) + Best cornet and best deportment.
Stalybridge Labour Club: Best 1st Section Band
Lydgate: 2nd Best 1st Section Band

TAMESIDE: Highest placed 1st section band across all contests (and 5th place overall)

4th Place in the Regionals (minus a player but now with a new member!)

Sat 05 Mar 2022

After a week of engaging rehearsals, Silk Brass put on a great show at the North West Regional Brass Band Championships in Blackpool last weekend.

Performing Gilbert Vinter's difficult work 'Spectrum', judges Alan Morrison & Glyn Williams commented on the band's 'Tight ensemble playing and good dynamics', that the 'music flows nicely and is well shaped', and that the band 'has swagger and you capture the essence so well.'

Many thanks to our MD Tony Wyatt for keeping the band on track and finding so much music amongst the notes.

Unfortunately, after all the rehearsals our principal cornet Ben Bradley didn't actually make it on to the stage on contest day! However, we will forgive him as his partner (and band member) Alannah went in to labour, and they are now proud parents to Louis George Bradley. Congratulations to both Ben and Alannah!

Live in Concert!

Sun 28 Nov 2021

It was wonderful to be able to share our first proper concert in close to two years, due to the covid pandemic, on Friday night with the good folk of Bosley. An appreciative audience turned out (even with storm Arwen turning the air cold and windy) to hear the band's welcome return to Bosley Church with a programme of band favourites and Christmas classics to herald the start of the festive season. To listen to the band in action from that concert then follow the YouTube link below.

The programme included: 
March 'Le Reve Pass'
Swedish Folk Song
Hey Jude
Bill Bailey
Spartacus
La Danza
March 'Goldcrest'
Joy!
A Christmas Festival
Away in a Manger (Cornet soloist Ben Bradley)
The Christmas Song
Schneewalzer
& Jingle Bells