AWARD-winning artist Simon Buckley’s new photographic exhibition at the Weavers Factory reveals a hidden world very few of us ever see “I grew up in…
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Band follows the yellow brick road to Dobcross
A TOP American brass band followed the yellow-brick road all the way from Kansas… to Dobcross! Fountain City Brass Band made the 4,000-mile trip to…
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Hills are alive with sight of music thanks to Allegro Optical
AS Eric Morecambe famously and irreverently once told Andre Previn: ‘I’m playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order’. One of…
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Lots at stake for Whit Friday brass banders
WHIT Friday could be renamed Fright Friday if you happen to read an Angela Blythe novel before taking in the ‘greatest free show on earth’…
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Could you be a brass monkey?
THE search is on for enthusiastic players to join the Dobcross Brass Monkeys and keep their successful band going. Phil Cumberworth, Musical Director for the…
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Archbishop of York to join Dobcross for Whit Friday
A SADDLEWORTH village has pulled off a remarkable coup for the community’s annual Whit Friday celebrations this year. The Most Reverend & Right Honourable Dr…
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Australia’s Tanunda Town Band are special guests in Dobcross
By Ken Bennett THE OLDEST brass band in the Southern Hemisphere is to make a star-studded appearance at one of Saddleworth’s oldest band clubs. Dobcross…
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