Haydock Band

The official twitter account of The Haydock Band. Beating strong at the heart of Haydock Established 1861 Celebrating over 160 years of music making.

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WINNERS! We had a fantastic day at the North West Regional Brass Bands Championships on 1st March placing an incredible 1st place in the 1st section! 🏆

We’re heading to the National Finals in York in September!! Onwards and upwards, folks! 🎺🥳

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A smiley announcement! 😁📸

To celebrate our musical history, successes with a photoshoot at our second home, Haydock Park. We wear our band colours and uniform with pride, and enjoyed being snapped in our dress uniforms and polo shirts 🎶

Celebrate with us! Cheers 🍻🎺

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For the third year running, we have raised funds from carolling within the community, and donated to St. Mark’s Food Pantry in Haydock 🎺

We’d like to thank our players for all their hard work in securing these funds to help provide supplies to the less fortunate - Thank you 🫶🏻

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*TICKETS NOW ON SALE*

Join us at JayDee’s in Haydock (Haydock Workingmen’s Club) on Friday 19th December for an evening of festive fun 🎄❄️

Get your tickets by emailing us at [email protected] or messaging us on our socials @haydockband

See you there! 🎅🎅

#hohoho

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Today is a significant day for many as we remember those who lost their lives and continue to serve for us today. Several members of our band are actively supporting others marching through our local towns. Let’s honour those we remember.

We remember ✝️
#remembertogether

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Champions for 2025 - always representing our town to the highest level.
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Our Musical Director Mark Quinn attended the Arts4Us (Edge Hill Uni) conference last weekend. We’re a partner organization to the research group which foucuses on young people aiming to create a digital platform for them to access arts to improve their mental heath- wonderful 🎶

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Today we attended Blackburn & Darwen’s March & Hymn contest! We battled the wind & clouds to achieve an overall 5th from 14 bands, came 1st in the 1st section, 4th in the March and 5th in the hymn. What a better way to celebrate with lot of photos and a few pints. Cheers! 🎺

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Get ready for Summer! ☀️🎶

On Friday 18th July, we’re hosting our summer concert which will feature some classics and new music to start the summer holidays in style!

Join us for only £12 per person, with hot pot of course! 🥧 We look forward to seeing you there, cheers 🍻

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Thank you @HaydockBand for your brilliant music in our Light Up A Life remmabarce service.
#brassband #remembrance #Christmas #childloss

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A village with a population of around 17,000, #Haydock is the third largest settlement in the Borough of St Helens. Once home to 13 collieries, mining ended in 1971. Home to @HaydockBand @HaydockMVC and one of the biggest parks in the region at Lyme and Wood former pits.

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We’ve reached the end of our virtual Eurotrip journey!🏅👣 After walking our socks off we achieved the 5,326 mile goal & 19 virtual performances. Here’s ’The Saints’ to celebrate. There’s still chance to donate - https://t.co/k5f33O1uJg. Thank you for all your support 🤝👏🏻

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We are at our penultimate stop along our virtual Eurotrip walking tour - Liverpool!!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 To celebrate, we chose to perform ‘Eleanor Rigby’ sung by The Beatles 🎵
To help us achieve our target of raising funds towards 4 new basses for our brilliant section -https://t.co/k5f33O1uJg

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We’re back in England on our virtual Eurotrip walking fundraiser! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👣 ‘Making Your Mind Up’ was the winning performance by Bucks Fizz in 1981 and has been arranged by Adam T J Taylor (@cantatiopublishing), showcasing every section of the band 🎶🎺🥁 https://t.co/k5f33O1uJg, TY👏🏻

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To celebrate reaching the historic Dunkirk in France, here’s a snippet from ‘The Great Escape’ 🥁🎺 We still have our walking boots on, with only 418 miles left until we reach our home! To sponsor us, visit https://t.co/k5f33O1uJg. Thank you for supporting our challenge so far 🤝

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Next stop on our virtual Eurotrip walk is Brussels, Belgium! 🇧🇪 We chose to play an excerpt from the challenging test piece ‘Brussels Requiem,’ performed at the European Championships, British Open, and at the Grand Shield contests 🥁🎺

https://t.co/k5f33O1uJg. TY 🤝

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So far we’ve achieved an amazing virtual 4,726 miles around Europe meaning we have 600 miles left on our basses fundraiser. At Rotterdam in the Netherlands we chose to play ‘Clog Dance’ which is an all time favourite from ‘Brassed off’ film (1996) 🎺🥁https://t.co/k5f33O1uJg 🤝

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460 miles later and we travelled 3/4’s of the way on our fundraiser to stop 13 - Stavanger in Norway 🇳🇴 Here’s a clip from our Summer Sounds concert of the brilliant Fairytale, from @Cantatiopub’s brilliant arrangement of ‘Think about things/Fairytale’

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We made great progress on our fundraiser reaching Stop 12 on our journey - Copenhagen, Denmark 🇩🇰👣 Here, we chose to play ‘Rise Like a Phoenix’ which was the Austrian winner of the Eurovision Song Contest held here back in 2014! Have a listen 🎶

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