Brass Playing Has No Bounds

Over the past few months Maltby Miners Welfare Band has been working on a special commission “Interchange” by Mark Fell, a multi disciplinary artist based in Rotherham. The 3 hour piece was performed on Saturday 16^th October in Sheffield’s Pond Street bus station as part of the city’s No Bounds Festival.

Our players were distributed around the station, playing to both a bemused public waiting for buses and a very appreciative Festival audience.

Included in a 5 star review in Monday’s Guardian, by Daniel Dylan Wray, of the Festival

“A three-hour performance by the Maltby Miners Welfare Band takes place throughout the hub, with gently thundering brass instruments booming around the slightly ghostly, echo-laden station. There is a quiet melancholy and a profound emotional resonance to the performance”

This has been one of the most exciting and challenging projects we have worked on and has shown that whilst brass has a rich heritage it also has a future.