Happy Birthday Shoey

Happy Birthday to Stephen Barrow, the bands Flugel Horn player.
Shoey is one of the bands longest serving members and is also the Chairman of Tintwistle Band.
Shoey is a little secretive about his age but we hope have it on good authority thats its a

Half Century for Shoey

Many Happy Returns Mate.

A Big thankyou to Matt Shaw

Tintwistle Band said a big "thankyou to Matt Shaw tonight who has taken the band during Sarah's maternity leave.

Matt a graduate from Royal Northern College of Music has led the band through the busy summer period and has done a great job.

Matt has kept rehearsals interesting at an otherwise difficult time of the year and has also got on well with players at all levels.

The band has played one or two of Matts arrangements  and these have been very well recieved by summer audiences.

The band members presented Matt with a Thankyou card and a pair of cufflinks.
The band would like to say a big Tintwistle  " Thankyou " to Matt and we do hope he will keep in touch.

Matt Shaw

Summer News

The band have had a busy schedule of concerts during the summer and are looking to fill some vacant seats in preparation for the contest season.

Unfortunately the band have lost the services of Jo on Eb Bass and we are still looking for front row cornet players and a Soprano cornet player.

If you are interested please get in touch.

Tintwistle Band at Philip's Park
Sports City Manchester

Tintwistle Band were invited by Manchester City Council to play at the " Party in the Park " event at East Manchester.

The band played between 1:00 and 4:00 pm in three performances and were well received.

The event named  " Seeds of the East " also featured a range of family fun events.

It's a Girl

Tintwistle Bands Musical Director Sarah and her husband Nigel are the proud parents of a gorgeous baby girl.
Beatrice Iris was born at 12:45 pm on 1st July 2011.

Congratulations to Sarah and Nige.

Area Countdown

Tintwistle Band are currently working very hard in preparation for the Midland Area Qualifying Contest.
The band will be playing in the first section at Bedworth Civic Hall, near Coventry on Saturday 12th March.
The test piece is Berlioz, Le Carnaval Romain arr Frank Wright and will be a stern test for the 18 bands in the first section.

Tintwistle Band are newly promoted to the first section after their success last year when they were 2nd section Midland Area Champions.
The bands Musical Director Sarah Groarke has been working very hard in the run up to the contest, to ensure that the band make a good performance.

Welcome back Sarah

Tintwistle Band are very pleased to welcome back their Musical Director, Sarah Groarke.
Sarah has been working in the Lake District for 6 months, and the band are delighted that she has now returned.

photo courtesy of Michael Pollard.

Tintwistle welcome new players

Tintwistle Band are pleased to welcome Karen Smith who has joined the band from Denton Brass.
Karen will be filling the repiano seat.
We also welcome her daughter Jasmine who is a promising youngster and will sit in alongside Helen on 2nd Horn.

Call for Cornet Players

Tintwistle Band are keen to recruit Cornet Players in particular a Soprano Cornet player and front row players.
If you are interested please get in touch.
We will be very pleased to welcome you.

Other vacancies currently include Eb Bass and percussion.

Recently we have lost Marie Birnie (solo cornet) who is now studying
 Medicine at University, and also Mike Eades (soprano)
who has joined Friezland Band. We thank them for their service.

Its a girl for Jenny

Congratulations to Jenny Capp (repiano) & Simon on the  birth of their daughter Annabelle on Thursday 29th July. Annabelle weighed in at 7lb 1oz and by all accounts has a healthy pair of lungs!!

Tintwistle Band

 Midland Area
Second Section
Champions 2010

Tintwistle Band  were awarded First place today in the Midland Area, Regional Brass Band Championships, Second Section.

Tintwistle Band led by MD Sarah Groarke on her first contest for the band, will now represent the Midlands Area in the National Finals in Harrogate.
The Test Piece was " Kingdom of Dragons" by Philip Harper.

The two adjudicators were Malcolm Brownbill and Paul Norley, and the contest was held at Bedworth Civic Hall.

The band celebrated their success at the "Globe" in Glossop.

 The bands performance led by Sarah was described by 4bars rest as outstanding.

" In the Second Section there was a commanding victory for Tintwistle directed by Sarah Groarke, who produced an outstanding performance of Philip Harper’s ‘The Kingdom of Dragons’ to return to Harrogate for the first time since 2001."

Stop Press

The following article from 4barsrest.com is worth reading.

2010 Midlands Regional Championship - Second Section: retrospective

Special mention for 2 man percussion team

The Percussion requirements at the area contest called for 3 percussionists, but unfortunately due to illness Tintwistle Band had to manage with two.
One major problem was the anvil which was needed frequently in the second movement. Luckily Simon our percussion player is an engineer and was able to make an anvil operated by a foot pedal.

It clearly worked very well.

Well done to Simon Barrow and Jack Parker for managing to get all the parts in against the odds.
Also congratulations to Jack on his recent 18th Birthday.

Terry McMyler who was poorly before the contest is now recovering well.

Sarah Groarke

 M.D. of Tintwistle Band.

Tintwistle Band are delighted to announce that Sarah Groarke has agreed to take on the post of Musical Director.

The band are now very much looking forward to working under her direction.

 
photo courtesy of Michael Pollard.

Tintwistle Band would once again like to thank Jeff Snowdon who helped the band out over the busy Christmas period.
Cheers Jeff.

Band part company with M.D.

Tintwistle Band agreed today to part company with Musical Director Peter Denton.

Peter has been involved with the Band for about 8 months .

In order to fulfil the bands busy Christmas schedule we have been able to secure the services of Jeff Snowdon.

Jeff Snowdon is a professional musician and Horn player and we are delighted that he has agreed to take the band albeit on
 a temporary basis.

New player for the band

Tintwistle are pleased to announce that Jennifer Day will be joining the band on the back row. The band are particularly pleased as we have been short in this area for some time.

Jenny who lives in Mossley joins us from Carrbrook Brass and we are delighted she has decided to join us.

We hope Jenny has a long and happy association with the band.

Derek and Sandra's Wedding

Derek and Sandra tied the knot at Mossley Methodist Church today. The band played during the ceremony and the church was full for the occasion.

The evening reception was held at the Hey Green Country
Hotel in Marsden W.Yorkshire.

We hope Derek and Sandra have a fantastic honeymoon in Turkey, and a happy married
life together.

Derek's Social Night

 Tintwistle Band's EEb Bass player Derek Radcliffe is to be married on the 26th September. About twenty band members and friends were in Glossop today for a Social Evening.
We found time for a curry later and the evening was a great success.

We hope Derek and Sandra have a great day on the 26th.

Open Rehearsal

 Tintwistle Band are currently looking to recruit new playing members and people to help in the running and promoting of the band.

The band will be holding a Open Rehearsal at the bandroom on Monday September 21st.
If you are between bands or looking for a new challenge or maybe you haven't played for a while, then  you are very welcome to call in.
If transport is a problem let us know and we will arrange a lift.

Maybe you are thinking of learning to play a brass instrument, we can help their as well.

Coasts & Castles

 Several members of the band tackled the Coasts & Castles cycle ride from Newcastle to Edinburgh over the May bank holiday week.  They cycled some 216 miles up the north east coast to Berwick upon Tweed before turning inland towards Innerleithen then north into Edinburgh. The weather was fine other than a strong northerly head wind and 5 minutes of rain in Berwick. 

Newcastle

Edinburgh

It's a Girl

Tintwistle Band members received the following text message from
a delighted Stephen early this morning.

Hello World, A little girl born 1:30am
 Saturday 9th May, 8lbs exact.



Tintwistle Band are delighted for Michelle, Stephen and baby.

Baby is to be called
 Alice May