Our Achievements
- Competed in Panorama - the UK National Steel Band Championships - 5 times - highest placing 1st (2003)
- Performed at the Royal Festival Hall, Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Royal Northern College of Music and Elland Road Stadium
- Chosen to perform at the 100th Anniversary Concert for the Labour Party at the Old Vic Theatre and presented to ex Prime Minster Tony Blair
- Performed live on BBC TV’s Blue Peter
- Represented the City of Leeds in Dortmund, Germany and Borough of Kirklees in Besancon, France
- Performed with Huddersfield Choral Society, Honley Male Voice Choir, Gledholt Male Voice Choir and in the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
- Made a British Council-sponsored visit to the Trinidad Carnival
- Chosen by the Arts Council of England to record for a Best of British Steel Bands CD Fire and Steel
- Granted Musicians in Residence status by Yorkshire Arts
- Established an educational residency with Kirklees School of Music plus adult education classes and courses in several Kirklees schools – we teach over 170 pupils a week in the Kirklees area.
- Most recently toured with Trombonist Dennis Rollins and UK Steel Pan Soloist of 2004 Samuel Dubois as part of a year long jazz tour throughout the UK.
- Twice perfomed at the infamous Marsden Jazz Festival with Harry Beckett in 2001 and as a band in our own right.