Category: News
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Brass Band World Honours Eagley
Fresh from receiving The King’s Award For Voluntary Service 2025 less than three weeks ago, we have now been contacted by Brass Band World magazine and are to be the featured band in the December issue of this global publication. It will be the first time Eagley has ever been featured in this way by…
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Eagley Christmas Concert at the Victoria Hall
Our annual ‘Eagley Christmas’ concert takes place in the Victoria Hall on Saturday December 20th with its usual mixture of Christmas music and constant audience involvement, this year with even more first time arrangements included, so there will be songs made famous by Michael Buble, Mariah Carey, Greg Lake, George Michael, Alexandra Burke, the brilliant…
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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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175th Anniversary Victoria Hall Gala Concert Success!
On Saturday October 4th, our much anticipated milestone concert day finally arrived, and what a fantastic day and sensational concert everyone enjoyed. Well over a year in the planning, we invited as many former Eagley Band members as possible to come and play in a massed “reunion” band together with the current band, our Community…
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National Brass Band Finals 2025 (2nd Section)
Cheltenham – Saturday 13th September Having qualified for the 2025 National Finals by finishing Runners-Up at the North West Area contest in Blackpool in February, much of our Summer and early September rehearsals were taken up preparing for our appearance at the finals, held in Cheltenham over the weekend of September 13th and 14th. The…
