The band, based in Queensbury, West Yorkshire, is renowned across the world for its exemplary performances.and earlier this year even played on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.
Siobhan Bates, principal horn player with the world-famous Black Dyke Band, practices at Black Dyke Mills, Queensbury, West Yorkshire, for this weekend's Yorkshire Regional Brass Band Championships taking place on Saturday and Sunday at Huddersfield Town Hall. Siobhan, a music student at Huddersfield University, recently won the best soloist award at UniBrass, the contest for all British universities' brass bands held at Bangor University, north Wales.
From village fetes to church services – and, if you’re lucky, Christmas Eve carols in the pub – for many the tunes evoke a bygone era. And on Saturday argulable the most celebrated brass band in the world – the Black Dyke Band – will be hoping to once again bring the Championship of the National Brass Band competition home for the 24th time., is renowned across the world for its exemplary performances.and earlier this year even played on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.Advertisement
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