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2023 Band Awards Night
Sunday night saw the Bands Annual Awards night held at Darios Ristorante just down the road from our band room. With Lots of awards to be had, a mixture of tongue in cheek awards and more important ones the band settled in for a night of Camaraderie and some nice food...
NEMBBA 2024 Success
The Band took part in the 2024 North East Midlands Brass Band Association annual contest on Saturday 17th February held at the Post Mill Center in South Normanton. The Band were previously winners of the First Section in 2019 under the baton of Stan Lippeatt playing A...
New Leadership at Hatfield & Askern Colliery Band
The band is delighted to announce the appointment of Richard Marshall and Vicki Kennedy as its new conducting partnership. Having both been associated with the band for many years, both as former Principal Cornet players, the...
Farewell Tim
The band bade a sad farewell to its former Top Man, Front Row and Sop player Tim Pratt yesterday at Woodlands Crematorium in Scunthorpe. Tim passed at the age of 50 on 4th May 2023, far too soon for a man in his prime. Constrained by the available space, a small...
Fancy Having a Go?
Whether you're currently playing, are a lapsed player, or even if you have never put your lips to a brass instrument before, how do you fancy giving it a go? The chance of a lifetime, to see if you are inspired to get into this cultural pastime that predominated...
A Doncaster Brass Welcome for the King and Queen Consort!
The band is delighted to have been invited to play for the visit of King Charles III and Camilla, Queen Consort, to Doncaster on Wednesday 9th November 2022. The Royal guests are visiting the town to formally bestow City status following its grant by Her Majesty...
Getting in Tune
Last night, we were joined in the band room by Councillors Austen White and Iris Beech; the 2 ward councillors who have helped fund the instruments for our starter band had a little fun trying them out for themselves! Austen on trombone and Iris on tenor horn are...
Stan’s Concert Farewell
The Hatfield and Askern Colliery Band is sad to announce that Stan Lippeatt is to stand down from his role as the band’s Musical Director in May this year. Stan has, however, clearly indicated that “I’m retiring from day to day banding, yet will continue to be...
Yorkshire Area Championship 2022
After a 2 year hiatus arising from the infamous Covid-19 bug, the Yorkshire Area championships took place over the weekend of 5-6 March 2022. Following our resounding tale-telling 7th place achievement back in 2020, the band was hoping to continue climbing up the...
Bring it back, bring it back ….. !
14 months since we last sat around the stand and had a blow - it was the Yorkshire Area Championships at Huddersfield on Sunday 8th March 2020 to be precise - thoughts are now turning to how we get the band back together and start making music once more. To do that we...