Overseas Concert Tours


The Band has undertaken ten overseas concert tours. It has travelled to Bergen in Norway as the guests of Sandvikens Ungdomskorps in 1977 and 1984, hosting their trip to Harrogate in 1975.
It has also been to Bad Hersfeld in Germany as the guests of the Stadt Musikverein Band (SMV) in 1981, 1986 and 1990, and hosted SMV's trips to Harrogate in 1982, 1987 and 1993.

Then followed a tour to Prague in the Czech Republic in 1996.
It also hosted a visit of the Gerwens Muziekkorps (GMK) Band, from Nuenen in The Netherlands, in October 1998 and visited GMK in Holland in May/June 2000.

A tour to the Rhineland in Germany in 2003 was followed by a concert tour in Belgium and Holland in 2007, and more recently to the Festival of Flowers in Luchon, France in 2014.

  •   2014 - Luchon, France
  •    2007 - Belgium & The Netherlands
  •   2003 - The Rhineland
  •   2000 - The Netherlands
  •   1996 - Prague
  •   1990 - Bad Hersfeld
  •   1986 - Bad Hersfeld
  •   1984 - Bergen
  •   1981 - Bad Hersfeld
  •   1977 - Bergen

Prague Tour 1996

The Band travelled to Prague in the Czech Republic in April 1996. During the week's tour it gave concerts in several venues, including the Skoda Auto Museum in Mlada Boleslav, the Fakultni Nemocnice Hospital in Prague, the Staropramen Brewery (!!) and the town of Kolin. Kolin is the location for an annual brass band festival (Kmoch's Kolin) celebrating the famous Bohemian brass-band conductor and composer Frantisek Kmoch (1848-1912) whose music played a large part in the national revival.


At the Staropramen Brewery

At the Skoda Museum

Rhineland Tour 2003


Poster for Bad Ems concert

Rachel Higginson playing "Orange Juice" in Roes