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World famous Grimethorpe Colliery Band - which featured in the hit film, Brassed Off - is to play a rare intimate concert at the region’s National Coal Mining Museum for England. Did you know with a ...

Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band perform at St George’s Hall in Bradford. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website including our ...

AWARD-WINNING Grimethorpe Colliery Band, who catapulted to worldwide recognition through the 1996 hit movie Brassed Off, come to Lighthouse in Poole on March 22. This concert will provide a rare ...

Lecturer Roger Webster can never forget the debt he owes Grimethorpe Colliery Band for transforming his life. He remembers the free music lessons miners gave him in their spare time when he joined at ...

FOR decades, colliery bands were at the heart of their communities, providing not just a musical backdrop to village events but also passing on expertise to generations of new brass players. Did you ...

4 Extra Debut. Yorkshire poet Ian McMillan explores how the Grimethorpe Colliery brass band continues to represent its community. From 2014. Show more Ian McMillan, Yorkshire poet and broadcaster, was ...

Horn player Sheona White will play with the acclaimed brass band at the contest in Birmingham in September. The band said its records showed Ms White would be the first woman to perform with them them ...

THE word famous Grimethorpe Colliery Band is back by popular demand at The Garden Rooms, at Tennants, in Leyburn. The concert, on Saturday, September 17, is one few opportunities to see the band in ...

Derelict houses in Grimethorpe were demolished to make way for new housing Twenty years after its pit shut, the Yorkshire village of Grimethorpe is thriving. When the village, famous for its brass ...