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

Back Rehearsing...!

Sun 12 Sep 2021

Covid restrictions stopped all brass banding in its tracks early in 2020. During the restrictions the band kept in touch with regular zoom quizzes, online events and by creating our two Lockdown Video Performances, but we are pleased to say that we have been back in the band room rehearsing (with social distancing) for the last couple of months and are looking forward to getting out there and playing for the public once again.

Look through our Concerts page to see where and when you will be able to hear the band perform again.

Hope to see you all soon!

'Mein Tirolerland' - Silk Brass & Musikapelle Lermoos Latest on-line Video

Thu 01 Oct 2020

Silk Brass and Musikkapelle Lermoos have a long and valued friendship.
We are each regular visitors to Macclesfield and Lermoos alike.
In these challenging times, we felt it would be a fabulous opportunity to showcase that, even though travel is not easy at the moment, we are still able to continue reinforcing those strong bonds between our two bands and our two communities.

We hope you enjoy 'Mein Tirolerland'

'Hey Baby' - Its our first lockdown video

Tue 28 Apr 2020

With Covid-19 shutting down much of day-to-day life, the band has been hard at work creating an isolation recording from their own homes.

The players all recorded and filmed their own parts using iPhones, laptops... whatever they had to hand, and sent them to the band's video guru Stephen Bridgehouse (BBb Bass) and and audio specialist Adrian Horn (Bumper Up) to produce this great recording of 'Hey Baby'

Enjoy!