Coming 1st in The March Competition with Keighley Moor and 1st with our test piece choice of Edward Gregson’s Of Distant Memories, our return to the contest stage was a successful one. The Centenary Contest is a landmark for The Woodfalls Band having won the first Wessex Contest in 1922, fifty years later in 1972 […]

28 Jan 2020

Christmas, Butlins and Beyond …

The end of 2019 was a busy one for The Woodfalls Band. Following the multiple successes at The Wessex Brass Band Association winter contest, we launched into a varied series of Christmas engagements and preparation for the Butlins Mineworkers Contest in Skegness. We had already performed with the Salisbury Chamber Chorus, under the enthusiastic direction […]

3 Dec 2019

Fraternity

The band’s new CD Fraternity is now available. It contains a performance of the band playing the winning test piece ‘Fraternity’ by Thierry Deleruyelle. This work is based on a coal mining disaster which took place in northern France in 1906 where more than a thousand miners died. Deleruyelle’s music pays homage to mining communities […]

3 Dec 2019

Wessex Champions!

On Saturday 30th November The Band entered the new look Wessex Brass Band Association winter contest held at Talbot Heath School in Bournemouth. With any new venue there were bound to be teething issues but all bands managed to find their way to and around the venue, giving good accounts of themselves on stage. Woodfalls […]

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