Another fantastic Christmas concert at Winnington Park Recreation Club last night. A huge thank you to them for inviting us back for another year, we look forward to the next one!
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Chester's Christmas light switch on 2022
Christmas has arrived in Chester! A successful Christmas light switch on for 2022!!!
Chester Remembrance 2022
A glorious day here in Chester as we remember the fallen. The band are truly honoured, as always, to have been asked to take part in Chester's Remembrance service. A huge well done to our fantastic cornet player George Pears who played the Last Post beautifully today. We will remember them.
Back in the band room!!!
Closed the door on our band room back in March 2020 and 903 days later we’re finally back in our home on Bedward row. Who would have thought that we’d have to wait so long!! Feels good to be back!
Chester Pride 2022
The band had the absolute honour to march alongside the LGBTQIA+ community at Chester’s Pride March. We are very proud to have supported such an important event!
An evening of music with the DMM
The band had a great time at our joint concert with the Delta Music Makers. On behalf of the band, we would like to thank the DMM and the audience for helping us make the concert a success. We hope everyone enjoyed themselves!
Shrewsbury Bandstand
We got very lucky with the weather today as the band performed at Shrewsbury band stand this afternoon! On behalf of the band, we would like to thank James, Vicky, Leon, Chris, Liv, Hannah and Emily for helping us out. Greatly appreciated.
Band wedding!!!
The band had the honour of performing at Sarah and Sean’s wedding yesterday for both the ceremony and in the evening. We had a fantastic time celebrating with them and made full use of the karaoke!
On behalf of the band, we would like to say a huge congratulations to Sarah and Sean on their marriage and wish them every happiness for the years ahead!!
Band awards 2022
The band had their yearly AGM meeting on Monday, where our player’s player and MD’s player awards were presented.
Our MD Ewan picked cornet player Ryan Jones for the MD award. Ryan is one of Chester’s own, starting in the training band and recently working his way up into the main band onto back row. Big congratulations to Ryan for this achievement!
The band voted for our solo trombone player Callum Hill for the player’s player award. Callum started playing trombone only 6 months ago and has come on leaps and bounds since. Sadly, Callum is leaving us as his time at university has come to an end. He’s currently learning bass clef to take on the challenge of bass trombone back with his home town band. Good luck Callum and congratulations!
Whit Friday Marches 2022
The band travelled back over to Oldham for the first time since 2019 to take part in the 2022 Whit Friday March Contest on June 10th. First one in 3 years due to Covid. Our road march was 1914 and we took on the challenge of Ravenswood on the stand. The challenge paid off as the band were awarded the following:
- 1st place for third section at Dobcross
- 4th place overall at Friezland and best cornet
- 2nd place for third section at Denshaw
- 32nd overall for the entire Saddleworth contest (a 7 place improvement from 2019)
