Its been a difficult time for everyone during the Covid 19 pandemic but we are now in a position to resume rehearsals following relaxation of national Covid restrictions. We hope everyone has remained well during this time. Many thanks to everyone who donated towards our Xmas video and for everyone using our webshop. This has meant that we have had some income to keep us afloat and enable us to restart.

We are therefore planning to meet on 11th September at our usual venue, Highfield Middle School Baton down 9.45 am!

We will still follow a degree of social distancing and hygiene measures to minimise any risk of Covid19 transmission.

We are always happy to welcome new members as this is the start of our band year so it is a good time to come along.

There was a glimmer of hope that we might have been able to get back to playing together again but the recent extension of Covid restrictions due to the so called ‘3rd Wave’ takes us into our usual summer break. We are hopeful that things may be getting back to normality to aim at resuming rehearsals and events in September but this obviously depends on guidance at that time.

Keep an eye on the calendar in the meantime.

We would usually be out and about playing all our favourite Xmas tunes and raising money for band funds at this time of year. Sadly the Covid-19 pandemic has curtailed all such activity so we decided to try and do something virtually and get together over the ether to produce our very own Xmas Video ‘A Fairytale of New York’

Our chief ‘Herder of Cats’, Caroline Guirr, has spent the last few weeks putting everything together and the resulting video is brilliant. Many thanks to Caroline and Mr D O’Hignorhan for the lovely arrangement of the Kirsty McColl and the Pogues classic.

If you would like to support the band with a donation you can now do so through the PayPal link below. You can do this even without a PayPal account.

We do appreciate any donations and hope you enjoy the video.

Happy Xmas and best wishes for 2021 from Prudhoe Community Band.

Keen eyed readers will have noted that our calendar of events has dwindled due to the current Covid-19 pandemic. We are all socially distancing and keeping our heads down until it all blows over.

We will be following guidance regarding when we might be able to resume rehearsals and gigs so watch this space.

Hope everyone keeps safe and well and see you in happier times

We are currently in the middle of our pre Xmas fundraising tour to try and raise money for band funds. Many thanks to everyone who has been kind enough to donate something in our charity buckets.

We have had some nice dry inside venues for a change and would like to thank Tanfield Railway, Newcastle United F.C. Prudhoe Co-op and Newcastle Central Station for making us so welcome.

Newcastle United Xmas Fayre at St James Park

Nest week we will be at Hexham Xmas Market before our final Gig at Newcastle Central station to round off the term.

Happy Christmas and best wishes for 2020 from Prudhoe Community Band.

Spring has sprung the grass has riz, I wonder where the birdies is?

As always we had a lovely time playing at this traditional Spring event in Hexham at the end of April.  Maypole dancing and Birds of Prey.

A tad cold but that doesn’t stop our lovely trumpeters smiling.

We are back in full swing with a busy Spring programme of events. Here we see Dave and Colin limbering up on Post Horns for a special version of ‘Post Horn Gallop’ to be revealed at the County Show.

We are very appreciative to the Co-op and all who have donated money for our cause in the Co-op community fund collection.

We were presented with a cheque towards band funds which we have used to buy nice warm band jackets and hats to keep us snug when we are playing out and about.

We had a great evening playing with our friends Ponteland Community Wind Band and Whittonstall Community bands at our annual Joint Spring Concert at Kirkley Hall, a new venue for us.

Whittonstall Band grow from strength to strength.

Thank you to our hosts for inviting us.

Rehearsals will resume on Saturday 16th January so blow the dust off those instruments and come and join us!

Apologies but it’s another rainy day so we have had to cancel todays planned event at the Glade in Prudhoe.  Fingers crossed for next week as it is our last event before the summer break.