Category: Charities
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Royal Recognition For Eagley Band
Recipients Of The King’s Award For Voluntary Service 2025 – The MBE For Volunteer Groups Bolton’s Eagley Band has achieved Royal recognition in being named recipients of The King’s Award For 2025, the highest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. The band, its community choir, community band and Musical Director are all…
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Packed Victoria Hall Christmas Concert!
On Saturday evening December 16th we took to the Victoria Hall stage once again for our annual Christmas Concert there and enjoyed another fantastic, super-high quality, memorable night in front of our biggest audience since before Covid lockdowns three years earlier. Not since our Christmas Concert of December 2019 had we seen so many hundreds…
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Eagley Welcomes Home Vernon Kay For BBC Children In Need
We at Eagley Band and our MD Chris Wormald have been performing in the Bolton Wanderers Stadium this morning at the invitation of the Zoe Ball BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show for Children In Need. We were contacted some weeks in advance and asked to have a number of pieces, fanfares and jingles arranged to…
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Concert for St George
“Bolton’s Eagley Band, which this year celebrates its 170th anniversary, once again returns to the Victoria Hall in conjunction with Smithills Community Choir and Band under the directorship of Musical Director Chris Wormald for their annual Concert For St George. Following another packed and hugely popular evening at their Christmas Concert in December, Eagley and…
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Victoria Hall Christmas Concert Success!
On Saturday evening December 21st we took to the Victoria Hall stage in Bolton once again in front of the Mayor of Bolton, the Chair of Bolton Hospice and hundreds and hundreds of Boltonians who packed into the hall to watch our latest Eagley and Smithills Community Music gala concert. Our programme included lots of…
