Here in the form of lists is a brief history of the bands that today form Farnworth and Walkden Brass Band. The lists are made from the collective Contest History of each band. It's made up of lists of Conductors/Musical Directors performing at the contests and the test pieces they played. The list of pieces is long, so each piece only appears the first time the band played it with the date and section. Walkden Band did not record there test pieces so if anyone has infomation on what they played please help me fill this in.
Each section has a link at the bottom to the table of contest results, and the table below gives you links to quickly find each band. Sorry for the length of this page, there is a lot of history
Farnworth & Walkden Band 2007 ->
Eatons Farnworth & Walkden Band 2005 - 2007
Eatons Farnworth Band 1991 - 2004
Walkden Band 1896 - 2002
Farnworth Old Band 1977 - 1990
| Musical Director | Dates |
|---|---|
| Peter Ashley | 2007 - 2015 |
| Mark Wildie | 2015 |
| Matt Shaw | 2015 - 2017 |
| Luke Pallister | 2018 - 2019 |
| Dan Price | 2019 - 2021 |
| Paul Dalton | 2021 - 2022 |
| Neil Robinson | 2022 - 2024 |
| Contest Piece | Section | Year |
|---|---|---|
| A Cambrian Suite | 4th | 2007 |
| Four Cities Symphony | 4th | 2008 |
| Music For A Festival | 4th | 2008 |
| An Elgar Portrait | 4th | 2008 |
| The Talisman | 3rd | 2009 |
| Triptych | 3rd | 2009 |
| Saint Seans Variations | 3rd | 2010 |
| Royal Mile Suite | 4th | 2010 |
| A Caledonian Journey | 3rd | 2010 |
| Rhapsody In Brass | 3rd | 2010 |
| A Little Light Music | 3rd | 2011 |
| Variations on Laudate Dominum | 3rd | 2011 |
| Olympus | 3rd | 2012 |
| Variations on Maccabeus | 3rd | 2012 |
| The Plantagenets | 2nd | 2013 |
| Chaucers Tunes | 2nd | 2014 |
| Chaucers Tunes | 2nd | 2015 |
| Fire In The Blood | 2nd | 2015 |
| A Cambrian Suite | 3rd | 2016 |
| Essay | 3rd | 2016 |
| Lake of the Moon (Kevin Houben) | 3rd | 2016 |
| Darkwood (Dan Price). | 3rd | 2017 |
| Rhapsody in Brass | 3rd | 2017 |
| Ex Terra Lucem (Bates) | 2nd | 2018 |
| Rise of the Phoenix (Darrol Barry) | 2nd | 2019 |
| Occasion (Edward Gregson) | 2nd | 2018 |
| The Golden Sabre (Kit Turnbull) | 2nd | 2020 |
| The Aeronauts, Goff Richards | 2nd | 2022 |
| Musical Director | Dates |
|---|---|
| Peter Ashley | 1999 - 2007 |
| Contest Piece | Section | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Stantonbury Festival | 4th | 2005 |
| Variations of Laudatum Dominum | 4th | 2005 |
| Divertimento | 4th | 2005 |
| Prelude, Song and Dance | 4th | 2005 |
| Anglian Dances. | 4th | 2006 |
| A Salford Sinfonietta | 4th | 2006 |
| Facets Of Glass | 4th | 2006 |
| The Seasons | 4th | 2007 |
| Musical Director | Dates |
|---|---|
| Robert Taylor | 1977 - 1991 |
| Stephen Booth | 1992 - 1994 |
| Geoff Seed | 1994 |
| Paul Johnson | 1994 - 1995 |
| Peter Heyes | 1995 - 1996 |
| Ian Brownbill | 1996 |
| Keith Hollinshead | 1997 - 1998 |
| Peter Ashley | 1999 - 2004 |
| Contest Piece | Section | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Four Fors for Brass | 4th | 1991 |
| Stantonbury Festival | 4th | 1991 |
| Landscapes | 4th | 1991 |
| Othello | 4th | 1991 |
| The Seafarers | 4th | 1992 |
| Rhap/ Negro Spirit No/1 | 4th | 1992 |
| Prelude, Song and Dance | 4th | 1992 |
| Little Suite for Brass | 4th | 1992 |
| he Shipbuilders | 4th | 1993 |
| Vectis Isle | 3rd | 1993 |
| Entertainments | 3rd | 1993 |
| Dimensions | 3rd | 1993 |
| Choral and Toccata | 3rd | 1994 |
| The Fall of the Year | 3rd | 1994 |
| Snowdon Fantasy | 3rd | 1995 |
| Sinfonietta | 3rd | 1995 |
| A Salford Sinfonietta | 3rd | 1995 |
| Oceans | 3rd | 1996 |
| The Force of Destiny | 2nd | 1996 |
| Music from Kantara | 3rd | 1996 |
| Four Preludes | 3rd | 1997 |
| Facets of Glass | 3rd | 1997 |
| Three Saints | 3rd | 1998 |
| Lorenzo | 3rd | 1998 |
| River City Suite | 3rd | 1999 |
| Haselmere Suite | 3rd | 2000 |
| The Seasons | 4th | 2000 |
| Dunwich Sinfonietta | 4th | 2000 |
| Partita | 4th | 2001 |
| Shine as the Light | 3rd | 2001 |
| St Austell Suite | 3rd | 2001 |
| Divertimento | 3rd | 2002 |
| Northern Landscape | 3rd | 2003 |
| Attleborough Suite | 3rd | 2004 |
| Variations of Laudatum Dominum | 4th | 2004 |
| Four Fors for Brass | 4th | 2001 |
| Musical Director | Dates |
|---|---|
| Cliff Lightbrown | 1933 - 1963 |
| Ernie Vint | 1969 - 1972 & 1980 |
| John Golland | 1974 - 1975 |
| Gordon Higginbottom | 1983 - 1985 |
| Mike Cotter | 1989 - 1995 |
| John Hinckly | 1992 |
| Darrol Barry | 1996 |
| Jim Davies | 1998 - 2001 |
| David W Ashton | 2001 - 2002 |
| Contest Piece | Section | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Musical Director | Dates |
|---|---|
| G Shawcross | 1977 - 1982 |
| B Ashby | 1982 |
| A Hobson | 1983 - 1985 |
| A Marsh | 1986 - 1988 |
| J Hunter | 1986 - 1987 |
| Robert Taylor | 1989 - 1990 |
| Contest Piece | Section | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Call of the Sea (Eric Ball) | 3rd | 1978 |
| The Shipbuilders (Peter Yorke) | 3rd | 1979 |
| 5th Symphony Beethoven | 3rd | 1979 |
| Main Street (Eric Ball) | 3rd | 1980 |
| Coriolanus (Cyril Jenkins) | 3rd | 1981 |
| Three Musketeers (Marc Jeanbourquin) | 3rd | 1982 |
| Land of the Ever Young (Granville Bantock) | 3rd | 1982 |
| Wheatlands (Bram Wiggins) | 3rd | 1983 |
| Introduction and Allegro (Gareth Wood) | 3rd | 1983 |
| Othello (Drake Rimmer) | 3rd | 1984 |
| Divertimento (Eric Ball | 4th | 1984 |
| Sinfonietta | 3rd | 1984 |
| Suite in Bb (Gordon Jacob) | 3rd | 1984 |
| Promenade (Frank Bryce) | 3rd | 1985 |
| Lorenzo (Thomas Keighley) | 3rd | 1987 |
| Overture to Youth (Eric Hughes) | 4th | 1987 |
| Simon called Peter (Gilbert Vinter) | 4th | 1987 |
| From the New World Symphony | 3rd | 1987 |
| Mexican Fiesta (Ronald Hanmer) | 4th | 1988 |
| Partita (Philip Sparke) | 4th | 1989 |
| Rococo Variations on a Theme of Tchaikovsky (Allan Street) | 4th | 1989 |
| Devon Fantasy (Eric Ball) | 4th | 1990 |
| Prelude, Song and Dance (John Golland) | 4th | 1990 |