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Current & Upcoming Vacancies

The Blackley Band has a few immediate vacancies to be filled. We recently competed in the Rochdale Contest playing the… Read more

Prize Winning Animation

We are sure you remember the Manchester Christmas advert! Well this weekend the video was awarded ‘Video of the Year’… Read more

New (and old) Faces for Blackpool

This weekend sees us compete in the North West Area Contest in Blackpool on Peter Graham’s ‘Journal of Phileas Fogg’…. Read more

Joint Concert Announcement

We are hosting Krapfoss Hornorkester from Norway at a concert on Saturday 15th June. All of the details are on… Read more

5th Place at Blackpool

The band recently competed at the North West Area Championships in Blackpool Winter Gardens. Like every year it was an… Read more

Retirement of John Ford

53 years ago the Blackley Band started awarding a bandsman of the year trophy to the individual who contributed the… Read more

Great Stott! We have a new MD

We are delighted to announce that Karl Stott has been appointed as our new Musical Director. Karl began playing cornet… Read more

A Break with Tradition

This year the Chairman pulled a bit of a fast one whilst giving his annual speech at the dinner dance…. Read more

Buxton Contest Results

Sunday May 8th the band performed in the fourth section the the Buxton contest. It was an early start for… Read more