"Subtle" isn't usually the first word that comes to mind when you're talking about brass bands, especially those formed in the 19th and early 20th centuries as a leisure activity for mill and pit ...

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Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band perform at St George’s Hall in Bradford. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website including our ...

Grimethorpe was aptly named. A shabby village in the bleak South Yorkshire flatlands, its sole claim to fame is the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, a brass ensemble made up mostly of local mine workers. So ...

BRIGHOUSE & Rastrick Band will be hosting a concert night next month, with guests Grimethorpe Colliery Band. The brass concert will take place at Huddersfield Town Hall on March 25, and will include ...

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A legacy to Yorkshire’s industrial heritage is facing its greatest “existential threat” since the closure of the pits, the director of the world’s most famous colliery band has warned amid rising ...

Horn player Sheona White will play with the acclaimed brass band at the contest in Birmingham in September. The band said its records showed Ms White would be the first woman to perform with them them ...

The actor, who died in Shropshire in 2011, appeared with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band in the film Brassed Off. Sandy Smith, associate conductor of the band, said Postlethwaite maintained a "strong ...

Tonight’s programme features The Grimethorpe Colliery Band, as they continue their tour to celebrate the hit British film Brassed Off. Recorded in The Town Hall Birmingham (which doubled as the Royal ...

One of the world’s most popular brass bands whose music was used in hit movie Brassed Off are coming to Doncaster. The ...

A brass band which inspired a box office hit has been honoured with a blue plaque in the group's centenary year. Brassed Off, which starred the late British acting legend Pete Postlethwaite, featured ...