Tingley Brass Band

Leeds Parish Church

A small group of band members played at Leeds Parish Church to welcome in and out the congregation at their Help the Aged christmas concert. The band very much enjoy playing in these beautiful surroundings and have already been invited to play again next year!

Tingley Brass Band with John Middleton (Ashley Thomas - vicar of Emmerdale)

Slow Melody Competition

The band enjoyed a special night on Tuesday 8th November with 23 members competing in our Slow Melody Competition:

All players did very well and I think everyone enjoyed themselves.

Results

Beginner’s Section
Winner: Daisy
Runner Up: David

Intermediate Section

Winner: Brittany
Runner Up: Alex

Open competition (Advanced)

Winner: James
Runner Up: Cheryl

Congratulations to all!

Congratulations

Belated congrutulations to:

Helen for her Distinction in her performance module at Huddersfield University

Emma for her medical degree (2-1 in Medicine at St Hilda’s College, Oxford)

Greg for his distinction at Grade 4

Well done to all of you, we are very proud!

Training Band Concert – St Francis Primary School, Morley

Tingley Training Band were delighted to play at the Summer Gala held by St Francis Primary School, Morley. Once again we were blessed by the weather – it had threatened to rain just before we started playing but held off until after the end of the gala.

Training Band Member – Grade 1 Distinction

Many congratulations to Daisy for her Distinction in Grade 1 Cornet!

Churwell Primary School

The Tingley Training Band played at the Churwell Primary School Summer Gala on Saturday and had a lovely time. A good audience gathered as we played and were very encouraging. We also had a good time with some of the children at the gala, showing them how to make glorious noises from several brass instruments during the interval.

Church Service – Moorside Church, Drighlington

A group of 10 players from our Main band played at a lovely service at Moorside Church, Drighlington.

The band accompanied the congregation for several hymns who warmly welcomed us, making everyone feel very welcome.  Thank you.

First Training Band Concert of the season

Our training band had a good start to their busy summer season, playing at Morley Town Centre’s band stand on Saturday. Once again, the weather held out for us and we had many nice comments about our playing.

The band will be playing 5 more concerts in June/July, touring around the local primary school galas, so our training band practices have now stopped for the summer. We will resume the practices in September – hopefully with some new members!

Tingley’s Concert Season gets a good start

The Main Band played their first concert of the season at Dartmouth Park in Morley in lovely sunshine.

The beautiful bandstand in the park makes a lovely setting for brass band music, traditional and modern.

The band debuted two new pieces – Classical Brass and the Dr Who Theme as well as playing some of our old favourites.

The training band get started on their busy summer programme next week in Morley Town Centre. Hope to see your there!

Fountain Primary School Gala

Tingley Brass Band’s training band (supported by several Senior Band members) opened the Gala at Fountain Primary School and also played a further set later in the afternoon.

A table was set up at the Gala with several Brass instruments available for people to “have a blow” and the sound of brass blew out in joyous cocophony as adults and children alike delighted in getting their first notes out of the instruments.

Several people showed an interest in coming along and joining our training band and we hope to see them at our next training session on 10th July.

We hope to repeat this experiment again in Morley Town Centre next weekend!