Black Dyke Band

The Black Dyke Band, formerly Black Dyke Mills Band, is one of the oldest and best-known British brass bands.

History

In 1816 Peter Wharton formed in Queen Head (Yorkshire ), a brass music band that existed with changing success and fluctuating membership. This resulted in 1833, the successful Queen Headband with former musicians. They can be viewed as a precursor, which was founded by the French horn player and textile manufacturer John Foster Black Dyke Mills Band then 1855. The group appeared in uniforms that were made in the textile factory Black Dyke Mills. Most players from the founding period worked in the Mill and lived in Queensbury (West Yorkshire ), formerly Queen Head. Since founding The band is continuously active and studied the musical works still in the original sample spaces.

Recordings

The band has released in its long playing time of more than 300 recordings, the first of which already in 1904. Besides typical brass band literature, many classical music were played on recordings. In addition, there were co-productions with Tori Amos, Peter Gabriel and the band The Beautiful South, and in 2009 a concert tour in Australia with James Morrison. A known recording is the B- side of a single, released in 1968 under the name of John Foster & Sons Ltd. Black Dyke Mills Band at record label Apple Records the Beatles. The A-side contains the instrumental Thingumybob by Lennon / McCartney, the B-side an instrumental version of the Beatles' Yellow Submarine.

Awards

The Black Dyke Band has won numerous national and international awards, most recently in 2009 for the 22nd time the English National Brass Band Championships. She joined in October 1993 as the first British Brass Band in New York's Carnegie Hall, and with it in October 1994 as the first brass band ever at the Royal College of Music.

Conductor and Music Director is the Welsh euphonium Dr. Nicholas Childs.