Best of Brass with Amersham and Brighouse & Rastrick

Amersham Band celebrates 175 years with Brighouse & Rastrick concert

Amersham Band is celebrating its 175th Anniversary year, with the earliest known record in a newspaper article in the Bucks Herald dated 16th September 1843. The article records how brass bands from Amersham and Prestwood jointly played several marches and airs and took part in a cricket match (won by Amersham by the substantial margin of 11 wickets).

Band Chairman, Fred Harrison said “The band is delighted to be able to conclude the 175th Anniversary year by sharing the stage in a joint concert with the famous Brighouse & Rastrick Band, the 2017 National Champions.” Brighouse & Rastrick Band, regarded by many as the best and most consistent ‘public subscription band’ in the world has attracted a formidable reputation for highly entertaining concerts for both the general public and brass band connoisseur. Famously, in the 1970s, the band played “The Floral Dance” with Terry Wogan, holding the No.2 position in the British singles chart for nine weeks.

The concert, which is to be held on Sunday 4th November at 3:30 in The Centenary Theatre, Kings Road, Berkhamsted, will surely live up to the title “Best of Brass”