'The Music Lives on Now The Mines Have Gone' is an album featuring the UK's most historic Colliery Brass Bands from across the length and breadth of the UK. The album will be released on 1 March 2010 on Universal, some 25 years after the end of one of the country's bitterest and most divisive industrial disputes. The mines did close but the music stayed on thanks to the Colliery bands - today a potent symbol of a great heritage, the beating heart of many former mining communities.
At a very early age of 8, both my sister and I used to run around the village of Delph chasing and watching all the bands as they ...
Richard Ainley, Rochdale
I first saw Black Dyke on a rainy Halifax afternoon and was simply stunned by the power of the performance. The dynamics this band...
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The music lives on