Tyldesley brass band has been in existence over 100 years. In that time they have supported many local events including Atherton Carnival, the Remembrance Day Parade, and Atherton Proms in the Park.

The band have also competed in many competitions.

In March 2024 in Blackpool the band qualified to attend the national brass band finals in Cheltenham. The band previously had never competed at this level.

This set off a whole bunch of fundraising to get the necessary resources in place to attend the national brass band finals.

The BBCT helped with a donation towards their total needed.

Thank you enormously for your very generous donation to Tyldesley Brass Band. As you know we have been awarded a place at the National Finals of GB in September and your gift will go a long way to enabling us to attend that now. I will try to send a good picture of all the band from the day. On behalf of the whole band and all our supporters, thank you again and we hope to support your events for a long time coming.

The band placed 10th out of 19 bands, a fantastic achievement.

We came 10th there, out of 19 bands. Not in the prizes, but considering 2 years ago we had 9 players in the 2nd section and now we came 10th in the UK overall in the 1st section. Something to build on. If we’d have gotten top 3 we would have gone up to the championship section with Faireys, Black Dyke, Grimethorpe etc. Definitely something to build towards in the next few years now we have a thriving band and youth group too, which is something we haven’t had for years so very promising indeed.

And yes, if you recognised the name, Grimethorpe band are the subject of the movie and theatre production Brassed Off. A sign that Tyldesley are now hitting in the big league.

Even before all this happened the Tyldesley Brass Band delivered a great performance at the 2024 Bent and Bongs Beer Bash. YMCA never sounded so good! Maybe. Mayyyybeeee if we are lucky they’ll be back again in the future to once again grace the festival floor.