Grimethorpe Colliery Band among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the UK Government £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. Grimethorpe Colliery Band are pleased to announce that the band is to be a recipient of a major award from the second round of the Arts Council of England and…
Grimethorpe Colliery Band are delighted to announce the signing of Seb Williman as the new Repiano Cornet. Currently a student at the Royal Northern College of Music, Seb is taught by two former Principal Cornets of Grimethorpe; Richard Marshall and Roger Webster. Seb has also previously held the Assistant Principal Cornet seat at Carlton Main…
Announcing the premiere of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band’s new piece ‘Wild Winds Coldly Blow’, exclusively premiered on 4BarsRest. During lockdown the Grimethorpe Colliery Band decided to try and steer away from the splitscreen format which has become so popular, and instead have been taking time working on some alternative projects. Wild Winds Coldly Blowis the…
Grimethorpe Colliery Band are delighted to announce the signing of Vicki Kennedy to the Solo Cornet bench. Vicki is no stranger to GCB having played for the band back in 2014 after she completed her studies at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Whilst a student she was Principal Cornet of Tongwynlais Temperance…
Grimethorpe Colliery Band are delighted to announced they have secured the services of Stephanie Wilkins on Repiano Cornet. One of the most widely respected cornet players around, she is best known for her recent stint as principal cornet of the Fairey Band. Born in Cornwall, she joined firstly Tongwynlais and then the Cory band, after…
The Grimethorpe Colliery Band is pleased to welcome to its ranks BBb bass player Joe Boyce and Marrianne Garbutt, who joins on Second Baritone. Both players hail from Scotland, Marrianne from Ayrshire and Joe from Glasgow. Marrianne studied Band Musicianship with Pete Christian, Peter Graham and David King, before going on to complete a Masters…
The band is delighted to announce the release of their new CD of International Composer in Association Nigel Clarke‘s music. The new recording is out on April 10th via Naxos Classics and will be available on iTunes / Spotify / Amazon / Naxos Music Library / Music Download sites, and of course as hard copy…
Grimethorpe Band is devastated to learn of the death of its former Euphonium player, Paul Walton, at the tragically young age of 48. Paul joined the band in the Summer of 2017 after several years out of top line banding and served until the pressures of his busy work as a paramedic and travelling to…
Grimethorpe band are delighted to announce that they have secured the services of Adam Bokaris as the new Principal Euphonium player, replacing the retiring Michael Dodd. Over the course of more than twenty years in the ‘hot seat’, Michael has build an unrivalled for excellence, musicality and consistency, thrilling audiences worldwide on the concert and…
It was Grime met Grimey when members of the Grimethorpe Colliery Band performed for the Zoe Ball Breakfast Show on BBC Radio 2, which also featured grime artist Stormzy. The Grimethorpe Colliery Band were invited with actor Shaun Dooley to play the Children in Need single ‘Never Grow Up’ and had an early start, getting…