Join us for a fabulous  Christmas Concert in the beautiful St John’s Church in Midsomer Norton.  We’ll get you singing along and tapping your toes to Christmas bangers, festive favourites and traditional classics.

This year we are supporting the SWALLOW Charity and 25% of the profits from the concert will be donated to them.  SWALLOW Charity is user-led and supports over 170 local teenagers and adults with learning disabilities to live life to the full.  To find out more about this charity take a look at their website http://www.swallowcharity.org

Tickets can be purchased online from Ticket Source

http://ticketsource.co.uk/msnrsb

or in person from Bibliosmia Book Store, Unit 2 Holly Court Arcade, Midsomer Norton or Dragonfly Leisure Writhlington, Knobsbury Lane, Radstock.  If buying in person please pay in cash or cheque made payable to Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band.

The Centaur, Cheltenham Racecourse

We’re  off to Cheltenham on Sunday 14th September to compete in the National Championships of Great Britain. This follows our success at the Regional Contest in Torquay in March, where we achieved second place in the fourth section. and as a result qualified to enter the National Finals in September.

M.D, Harry Chambers receives 2nd place trophy

In Cheltenham we will be competing against the best bands from across the country and to prepare us for this prestigious contest our Musical Director, Harry Chambers, has been putting us all through our paces to make sure we are contest ready.

We don’t know the exact time that we will be on stage as it depends on the draw! However, what we can say is that the fourth section contest starts at 9.00 am and the results ceremony is scheduled for 2.00 pm.

Tickets are available on the day at the venue’s box office.

Adult tickets are £15.00, concessions (senior citizens / students) are £10.00 and discretionary child and family tickets will also be available on the day.  For  enquiries about tickets please contact  Kapitol Promotions.

Come along and support us!

There is no better time to join Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band. Under the baton of new Musical Director, Harry Chambers, the band achieved 2nd place at the Regional contest in Torquay in March – earning them qualification to the Nationals in Cheltenham and promotion to the 3rd Section next year.

If you are a cornet player and want to join us on our exciting journey, we have not one but two tutti solo cornet vacancies!

Take the first step and send us a message to hello@msnrsb.org.uk

Due to the planned retirement of our current Musical Director we are seeking to appoint someone new to this exciting role!

Interested? Then contact us on hello@msnrsb.org.uk to request a full job description and to register your interest.

The training band leaders, Louise Perryman, Richard Kitley and Julie Biggs, were surprised earlier this week with a Making a Difference Award from the people of Radstock.

At the end of last year, Radstock’s mayor, Chris Dando, invited nominations from the community for unsung heroes who volunteered their time and skills to support the town.

The band’s talented training band leaders were the proud recipients of one of the awards, which came as a total surprise but were very much appreciated.

Richard Kitley said, “we all do things just for the love of it, to pass on a skill, to maybe give others the joy of music. But when, out of the blue, the community – the one I was born into – gives an award it feels really special and an honour”.

The band thinks you are all total legends too!

Tuesday 26th September 7.30 – 9.30pm, the old Methodist Church, The Street, Radstock BA3 3PL

Play a brass instrument, drums or percussion and looking for a band to play with?  Maybe you’ve been away from playing for a while and need to blow away those cobwebs or get back into the driving seat!    Whatever your instrument don’t play alone! Midsomer Norton & Radstock Silver Band are holding an open evening where brass musicians drummers and percussionists are invited to come along to our rehearsal for an evening of fun music making. We play a wide variety of music from pop to rock, jazz and blues, music from the movies, beautiful ballads and of course the occasional march!

Don’t have your own instrument? Don’t worry, we’ll lend you one!

If you are planning to come please let us know in advance that you will be attending and also what instrument you play and whether you need to borrow one of our band’s instruments.

Contact hello@msnrsb.org.uk

A new generation of young musicians are being inspired to take up brass instruments thanks to the hard work of tutors Louise Perryman and Richard Kitley.

On Tuesday 13th June the Training Band held a small summer concert to entertain their families and friends. The players were really excited to show everyone what they could do and there were even some solos! The audience thoroughly enjoyed the concert and were impressed with the progress that they had all made over the year. It was great to see how they had all grown in confidence and that all of their hard work and practice had paid off.

Midsomer Norton and Radstock Silver Band have a proud history of nurturing the development of young musicians; some players who started in the 1980’s are still playing with the main band now!

The Training Band is fully inclusive and is registered Band Safe with Brass Bands England and the tutors are fully DBS checked and registered. So, if you harbour a desire to play a brass instrument, make that dream a reality and get in touch with us.

Contact: hello@msnrsb.org.uk

Principal cornet, Kit, did us proud by facilitating the unveiling of the Miner’s Silhouette’s by Michael Eavis with a fanfare flourish. Then he ran like the wind to join the rest of the band at St Nicholas Church field to open the Radstock Festival 2023.

The Natural Theatre Company put on a spectacular show of surreal sights and wonders so it was only fitting that we should open the festival with a light hearted programme kicked off with Those Magnificent Men (in their flying machines), followed by our very own Musical Director, Gareth Key’s arrangement of Mr Blue Sky and then moving on to such pieces as Floral Dance and Ground Force (especially for the Flower Pot Head ladies) and as a finale the classic singalong favourite Sweet Caroline.

But the fun didn’t end there, oh no. Kit and Trevor (solo horn) made a reappearance later as part of the Natural Theatre Company’s performance entitled “The Visionary”. We’re still waiting for that call from Steven Spielberg…..

naturaltheatre.co.uk/radstock-fayre/

It was an honour to be able to open up the Coronation Celebrations at the West Hill Recreation Ground on Sunday 7th May. The crowd really appreciated our mixture of Pomp and Circumstance and popular singalong favourites!