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Re: Oldest Established UK Brass Band?

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Subject: Re: Oldest Established UK Brass Band?
From: David Wakeley <david@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 22:45:49 +0100
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Hello all you bairnes out there!!!!!!
    and you are 'only' bairnes.....*


In July 1815, yes 1815, local press and archive material states that on the
10th of
that month 22-18s-0d was raised to purchase instruments for a local 'town
band'. It was a subscription band and some of the instruments were not of a
brass nature. The first documented evidence that the band was a brass band
was a parade for the Union Society on 19th July 1856. It is believed that
the band was a brass band when it paraded for the coronation of George IV
28th July 1821.
The bands first recorded contest was the 1867 Kirkdale Floral & Agricultural
Contest but no results were registered. The first recorded contest win was
in 1886 when the band played 'Norma' and ' William Tell '. So as you can
see,  Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band are the true old boys of the band world
????
unless of course you know different.

http://www.wakeley.demon.co.uk/kirkbyband.htm

Bye for Now
David Wakeley
Greenbank, Amotherby, Malton
North Yorks, YO17 OHP
www.ryedale.co.uk
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

*(lads)


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