We’re delighted to announce that our Charity Concert as part of BrassFestUK on Sunday raised a wonderful £261.82 for Beechwood Cancer Care Centre. Thank you again to our brilliant audience for their support and generosity and for St Cuthbert’s Church, Cheadle for hosting the concert.

We very much look forward to being back at St Cuthbert’s for our Christmas concert on Sunday, 3rd December and at Beechwood Cancer Care Centre for their annual Festival of Lights on Monday, 4th December – we hope you can join us!

The band were proud to take part in this weekends inaugural BrassFest UK event – a nationwide initiative to raise awareness of brass bands whilst raising much needed funds for local charities.

As part of the scheme, we held a free to attend charity concert (kindly hosted by St. Cuthbert’s Church in Cheadle) and collected donations for local charity, Beechwood Cancer Care Centre. The band throughly enjoyed ourselves, and, as always at St. Cuthbert’s, were supported by a fantastic audience.

Band friend and photographer Thomas Demol (www.thomasdemol.co.uk) kindly was on hand to commemorate the day and the band wish him luck for his own special day as he gets married this coming weekend!

Thanks to all who came and attended the concert and (hopefully!) gave generously to help support Beechwood – watch this space for updates as to how much we managed to raise!

The band are absolutley delighted to welcome our newest member!

Phoebe Rose Tomilinson was born at 12.15 on Thursday 7th July.

Hear’s hoping that both Phoebe and big sister Sophie follow in Mum (Kat) and Dad (Andy) footsteps and are keen banders too – we’ve got the registration cards at the ready!

Huge congratulations to all the family from all at Stockport Silver :)

Thanks to all who attended our quiz night on Friday.

Everyone seemed to enjoy the fun-packed evening and we took just under £250 on the night which will help greatly towards the band’s Whit Friday outing.

Thanks to all who supported us and thanks again to quiz master Sam for hosting the evening.

As it was such a great success we’ll hopefully be hosting another quiz night soon so watch this space!

Stockport Silver Band are hosting a quiz night on Friday, April 24th 2015 at the band room to help raise funds for our upcoming Whit Friday outing, so put your thinking caps on and come and join in with the fun!

The band will be performing a selection of carols and festive music at the Duke of York
(113 Buxton Road, Stockport SK2 6LR) on Sunday, December 21st from 4pm.

It’s going to be a fun packed afternoon with hog roast and santa’s grotto – so bring the whole family!

We’re pleased to announce the appointment of our new MD, Ian Colwell.

Ian’s banding career started, aged just six, with Burnage Brass Band. He then progressed through the ranks, bands and instruments, before settling for a number of years as Solo Euph at British Telecom. Over the years he has played with numerous bands including Cheshire Youth, Poynton, Burbage, Chapel, Thornsett, Stalybridge and Carlton Main.

Following an injury to his hand that effectively ended his playing career, Ian decided to focus on conducting, and went back to his roots at Burnage where he successfully established himself in his new role.

A founder member of Stockport Schools Brass Band, his ties to the North West banding circuit are long standing, so following a 15 year sojourn in Wales, he’s delighted to be back ‘up North’ and banding again!

Looking forward, Ian’s primary focus for the band will be to work on developing a strong concert programme for our numerous engagements as he believes that it’s key for bands to remember that the musicians’ role should be to entertain.

Whilst we know we’ll all be working hard, he is also keen to emphasise that being a member of any band should ultimately be a fun and enjoyable experience. We’re hoping he leads by example and that the first round is on him at post-rehearsal gatherings!