Milnrow Band

Milnrow Band is a traditional British-style brass band based in the foothills of the Pennines near Rochdale, Greater Manchester. The band is steeped in local history with its humble beginnings tracing back to 1869. Despite being over 150 years old, the band has seen the most successful period of its history written over the last two decades. In 2006 the band gained promotion to the Championship section of competitive music making and started to rub shoulders with the world’s elite brass bands, since then the band has grown from strength to strength and is ranked in the top 100 brass bands worldwide. The band is now financially self-sufficient following a long period of sponsorship from the Co-op, which came to an end in 2012. Consequently the group undertakes a varied concert diary that includes performances as full band, 10 piece and quintet alongside a full competition diary in order to raise the funds necessary to maintain the bands ongoing costs.