January 2012

Saturday the 3rd March is the date of our concert celebrating St David's day. This will take place in Rivertown Chapel, Shotton. This concert is the first of a series of bi-annual concerts we wish to stage to raise our profile locally and give us more performance experience. See our Calender page for full information.

January 2012

Our training band has re-commenced after a gap of some months. It runs on Thursdays between 6pm and 7pm. We have several child and adult learners, receiving a mixture of individual coaching and ensemble experience. Why not come along and visit? See our 'Training Band' page for more details.

December 2011

Mr John Pemberton is the new conductor of Deeside Silver Band, taking up his appointment in December 2011. John is a very experienced musician having played with or conducted a number of local bands, including Nothop and Buckley, and more recently Holywell Town Band. We are very pleased that he has joined us and look forward to exiting and fulfilling times ahead.

December 2011

The Band has a number of engagements over the Christmas period - come and see us if you can. We shall be playing at Asda Queensferry on Friday 16th and Thursday 22nd fDecember rom 6pm until 8pm, and have a number of other local engagements including Aston Community Centre on 17th December from 6pm and our regular appearance at the Christmas Concert in Connahs Quay Civic Centre on 21st December from 7pm ... come early as its usually full!!

April 2011

At the Band Meeting on 21st April it was agreed to trial a 7.15pm start, which will enable us to have a 10 minute break at about 8.15pm, when we can all enjoy a hot or cold drink . We will set up a rota of volunteers to prepare tea/coffee/juice at a cost of 50p. Band Members are requested, where possible, to assist with getting rehearsal room ready, cleared up after rehearsal and kitchen clear-up at end of band practice.
It was also agreed that in order to reduce disruption during rehearsals, talking to be kept to a bare minimum, but any music queries etc to be directed to either the section leader or to the conductor.

July 2009

We are pleased to announce that we have appointed a new conductor ,Mr. Christopher Barnes. Chris has been with us since February 9th 2009 and is doing a really great job.
Since taking over as our Musical Director he has taken us us to the Rhyl Festival Brass Band Entertainments Contest at the Rhyl Pavilion Theater on Sunday the 28th June.
Deeside Silver Band members were thrilled to win the first prize in the Fourth Section. Chris wore a really cool pirates outfit while he conducted us through "Pirates of the Carribean". Well done ! A special thank you to our guest players Tony, Joan and Peter, who did a spectacular job on kit!
It was a really good day out too, some of us stayed on to watch the other band sections playing and an extraordinary display of talent was exhibited!.
The entertainments contest has been brought back after a few years of absence and I believe the event was such a success thats it's going to be run again next year.

The Band members would like to say a big thank you to Bernie who conducted us successfully through to January 2009, when he decided to go back to teaching and conducting Northop Junior Band. Good Luck Bernie - we will keep in touch!

We would All like to extend a warm welcome to Mr. Bernie Thelwell who has taken up the baton for Deeside Silver Band since 7th April this year!

We would also like to say a massive "Thank You " to Mr. Glyn Smith and Mr.Dave Davies who have both conducted us since January. We really appreciate you both.

Congratulations to Karl Stott on being appointed M.D. for Greenalls Band St. Helens. Well done!
Thank you to Karl for conducting us for the peroid 2006 to 2007 it was really enjoyable and we learnt such a lot. We wish him All The Best for a Bright future.