Bakery band welcome cornet star (From Warrington Guardian)

Bakery band welcome cornet star

A Brassed Off musician will star with the Roberts Bakery Band at Winsford Civic Hall on February 1.

Richard Marshall, a cornet player with the Grimethorpe Colliery Band which played the music for the film Brassed Off, will be a guest performer with Cheshire's popular brass band.

And Biddulph Male Voice Choir will help to co-host the night.

Richard will play four concert solos and the choir will sing a selection of songs in each half.

Roberts Bakery Band was known as the Middlewich Town Band until 1980, when the Northwich bakery agreed to be its sponsor.

The band's 30 musicians are regular faces on Winsford's music scene. Band manager Nigel Birch said: "We always get a good crowd at Winsford and enjoy doing concerts there.

"We like our performances to have a good, relaxed atmosphere, not anything too heavy or intense - just tunes that people recognise.

"The programme for February hasn't been finalised yet but it will include music from stage, films and shows and if it's possible people can sing along."

Over the years, the band has forged a reputation as one of the most entertaining concert bands in the north west and in doing so has helped to raise thousands of pounds for many charities.

Macmillan nurses,, the Royal Air Force, St. Luke's Hospice, The Cheshire Fire Brigade Benevolent Fund, the Cheshire Regiment Association and the Mayor's fund are among the charities to have benefited.

Tickets for Roberts Bakery Band cost £6 for adults, £5 for pensioners and £3 for children under 16.

The concert will start at 7.30pm. To book ring the Winsford Civic Hall box office on 01606 86759.