Category: News
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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…
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From Templar To Trepak, At The Bridge!
On Saturday night March 29th we once again packed the super modern Bridge Church, just a mile from our Bolton bandroom and complete with its state-of-the-art, multiple video screens (more added since our second sell-out concert there last Spring). Everyone enjoyed a third great concert there to another sell-out Eagley audience and all in the…
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Christmas Concert Attracts An Audience Of A Thousand!
Our 2024 Victoria Hall Christmas concert on Saturday December 14th attracted a huge audience of over a thousand people, our biggest since before the lockdowns and perhaps in many, many years (please see the Gallery photos). Attended by the Mayor and Mayoress of Bolton, Deputy Lord-Lieutenant of Greater Manchester Judith Bromley, Bolton comedian and television…
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